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Wayne Radio Transmitter Building, Vincent Avenue, 0.9 mile west of intersection of U.S. Route 202 & Newark-Pompton Turnpike, Wayne, Passaic County, NJ

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Wayne Radio Transmitter Building, Vincent Avenue, 0.9 mile west of intersection of U.S. Route 202 & Newark-Pompton Turnpike, Wayne, Passaic County, NJ

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Summary

Significance: The development of broadcast media, radio, and television, mark critical technological and cultural changes in our history. The Wayne Radio Transmitter Building is associated with numerous important trends in the history of radio, including use by the Columbia Broadcasting System, early exploitation of short-wave broadcasting, and use for transmission of the Voice of America.
...The Wayne Radio Transmitter Building retains integrity sufficient to convey its association with the development of radio technology, and with the use of radio as a broadcast medium
Survey number: HABS NJ-1240
Building/structure dates: ca. 1930- ca. 1931 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1943 Subsequent Work

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1931
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Columbia Broadcasting System
Paley, William
Voice of America
Cultural Resources Group, Kise Frank & Straw, contractor
Dyer, Dolores, transmitter
Herr, John, photographer
Parkinson, James T, historian
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