File:CENTRAL MONITOR DETAIL, BAY 59, TO NORTH - Ford Motor Company Edgewater Assembly Plant, Assembly Building, 309 River Road, Edgewater, Bergen County, NJ HAER NJ-53-A-86.tif

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CENTRAL MONITOR DETAIL, BAY 59, TO NORTH - Ford Motor Company Edgewater Assembly Plant, Assembly Building, 309 River Road, Edgewater, Bergen County, NJ
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Kahn, Albert
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CENTRAL MONITOR DETAIL, BAY 59, TO NORTH - Ford Motor Company Edgewater Assembly Plant, Assembly Building, 309 River Road, Edgewater, Bergen County, NJ
Depicted place New Jersey; Bergen County; Edgewater
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER NJ-53-A-86
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  • Significance: Ford Motor Company built the Edgewater Assembly Plant as the largest of six such plants in the United States c.1928-31, to expand production of the Model A automobile line introduced in late 1927. Albert Kahn, perhaps the most important industrial architect working in the United States c.1903-42, designed all six assembly plants. The Assembly Building at Edgewater was the most architecturally successful of the major structures built during this program, combining elements of classical Prairie, and German industrial styles in a unified exterior wrapped around numerous internal assembly, storage, and distribution functions. The Edgewater plant, operating until 1955 as the longest-used of the c.1928-31 Ford assembly complexes, typified the heavily-conveyorized, densely-packed, horizontally-arranged assembly operations which characterized Ford methods c.1928-50. The Assembly Building was also the largest above-ground structure ever erected on the waterfront in the Port of New York, with a massive, partial pier substructure probably unique within this region.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N905
  • Survey number: HAER NJ-53-A
  • Building/structure dates: 1930 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1938 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1947 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1959 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/nj1355.photos.198921p
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Object location40° 49′ 36.98″ N, 73° 58′ 34″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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