Historic Preservation Industrial Reconnaissance Survey, City of Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York, November 2007
Kowsky FR and Wachadlo M. 2007. Historic Preservation Industrial Reconnaissance Survey, City of Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York, November 2007. City of Niagara Falls, Department of Community Development, Office of Planning & Environmental Services; Niagara Falls Historic Preservation Commission; New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation
From introduction: "The project lays out a narrative history of industrial development in Niagara Falls, New York, beginning in the early nineteenth century through the twentieth century. This history traces early industries, especially those that established themselves after the arrival of the railroad in the 1840s. The history also includes the development of water powered industries along the Niagara River and on Green Island and the reversal of the mainland and island industrial landscape with the creation of the Niagara Reservation (the present Niagara Falls State Park) in 1885. Primarily, the study concerns itself with the advancement of electro-process industries that came into being in the 1890s in the city after the creation of the two hydro-electric power companies, the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Company (the Schoellkopf Power Station) and the Niagara Falls Power Company (the Adams Power Station). The narrative concludes with the decline of industry in the city in the latter part of the previous century. The narrative and inventory survey includes tunnels, canals, offices, and manufacturing plants. Commercial, residential, institutional, and religious architecture was excluded." Funding was provided in part by a 2006 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the City of Niagara Falls (project number NY-06-11) administered by the New York State Historic Preservation Office and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Niagara Falls, New York is a Certified Local Government.
- Type
- Generic Document
- Authors
- Kowsky, Francis; Wachadlo, Martin
- Date of Issue
- 2007-11
- Publisher
- City of Niagara Falls, Department of Community Development, Office of Planning & Environmental Services; Niagara Falls Historic Preservation Commission; New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation
- Units
- HPF
- Keywords
- Historic Resource Surveys (Municipality); Historic Resource Surveys (Resource Type)