Spencer Kellogg & Sons, Incorporated, Pier & Transit Shed, 139-155 River Road, Edgewater, Bergen County, NJ

Significance: This steel-framed, iron-sided transit shed on its wooden pier is significant as an extremely rare survival of a once typical form of commercial waterfront structure in the Port of New York, and as the only intact representative of the deep water handling facilities once used by the cluster of oilseed processing plants in Edgewater. It was part of the first generation of such structures in the port, and while the full extent of sheds built in this period (c. 1900-1925) remains incompletely undocumented, the Spencer Kellogg site is now one of only about a dozen metal sheds with the characteristic side doors in alternating bays. All of the other surviving sheds of this class, some of which are badly deteriorated, were built for general cargo handling and retain no handling equipment aside from some cargo masts and interior railroad tracks, making the Spencer Kellogg shed unique in its specific industrial features. The wood substructure remains a more common and well documented feature of port construction, and by itself is less significant.
Survey number: HAER NJ-48
Building/structure dates: ca. 1915