Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Repair Shops, 55 Hudson Street, Hoboken, Hudson County, NJ
Summary
Significance: The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad (H&M) Repair Shops are significant as the first repair and maintenance facility for the H&M and for the innovative rail car elevator lift located inside the building that allowed rail cars to be hoisted from the subway tunnel up into the shops for repairs. The H&M Shops are also significant for historical associations with the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company which initiated rapid transit from Manhattan to New Jersey in 1908 and for association with William Gibbs McAdoo, builder of the first trans-Hudson rapid transit tunnel.
Survey number: HAER NJ-108
Building/structure dates: 1907-1908 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Jacobs, Charles M
McAdoo, William Gibbs
Meyer, Lauren, transmitter
Flagg, Thomas J, photographer
Drobbin, Lynn, historian
Location
Hoboken, 40.73571, -74.03012
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html