Intensive Architectural Survey, Inventory and Conditions Assessment of Industrial Mill Buildings outside of the Great Falls Historic District throughout the City of Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, September 2012
Hunter Research, Inc., Haley A, Harshbarger P. 2012. Intensive Architectural Survey, Inventory and Conditions Assessment of Industrial Mill Buildings outside of the Great Falls Historic District throughout the City of Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, September 2012. City of Paterson; City of Paterson Historic Preservation Commission; State of New Jersey, Department of Environmental Protection, Historic Preservation Office
From management summary: "This report presents the results of an intensive-level architectural survey of 30 historic mills in the City of Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey. These 30 mills were recognized by Mayor Jeffery Jones, the Paterson Historic Preservation Commission’s staff and by industrial historians as representing a highly significant but largely underappreciated cultural resource directly associated with the expansion of Paterson when it was known worldwide as “The Silk City” during the half century dating from roughly 1875 to 1925... This report presents a historic summary placing the mills in historic contexts of industrial architecture and the development of specific industrial sectors including silk, silk dyeing and finishing, machine works, locomotives and aeronautics, which made Paterson known nationally and, in some instance, internationally, for the skill and productivity of its businesses and workers. It also recognizes the mills for the potential significance they may have in association with industrial archaeology and the social history of labor, immigration and ethnicity. The report makes the recommendation that several of these themes are worthy of further exploration and research to answer questions about the degree of direct historic associations with the mills in the survey." Funding was provided in part by a 2010 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the City of Paterson (project number NJ-10-102) administered by the New Jersey State Historic Preservation Office (grant number 34-10-21937) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Paterson, New Jersey is a Certified Local Government.
- Type
- Generic Document
- Authors
- Hunter Research, Inc.; Haley, Alison; Harshbarger, Patrick
- Date of Issue
- 2012-09
- Publisher
- City of Paterson; City of Paterson Historic Preservation Commission; State of New Jersey, Department of Environmental Protection, Historic Preservation Office
- Units
- HPF
- Keywords
- Historic Resource Surveys (Municipality); Historic Resource Surveys (Resource Type)