Raritan Arsenal, Assembly Plant J1, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ
Summary
Significance: Assembly Plant J1 is significant as a typical industrial building constructed at the Arsenal during World War I. The building is significant as a core structure in the initial development of the manufacturing plant at the Arsenal and for its ongoing role in military production of small arms and artillery, which continued until World War II.
Survey number: HABS NJ-1061-D
Building/structure dates: 1918 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1936-1944 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1945 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1918 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Snare & Treist Company
Richard Grubb & Associates, contractor
Vergara, transmitter
Reinbold, Martin, photographer
Spies, Stacy E, historian
Frasier, Marilyn, historian
Location
bonhamtown, 40.41114, -74.35875
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