Name/Title
Fire map of W. & A. Fletcher Co. plant located on Hudson St. from 12th to 14th Streets, Hoboken, at the Hudson River, 1907.Entry/Object ID
2011.025.0003Scope and Content
Fire map of the W. & A. Fletcher Co. plant located on Hudson Street from north of Twelfth St. to Fourteenth Street, Hoboken, at the Hudson River, 1907.
This map or plan was superseded by a 1919 version (archives 2011.025.0004) and that one was superseded by a 1925 revision (archives 2011.025.0005).
Full printed form sheet, 21-1/4" wide x 26" high, with orthographic (or orthogonal) view, site plan (including location of buildings not part of Fletcher - see below) and building sections with color coding of buildings and water. PDFs on file: single sheet; all images. Large tiffs media archive.
Created and issued by Plan Department of the Associated Mutual Insurance Companies, Boston, Mass.
Text at bottom center:
W. & A. Fletcher Co.
"North River Iron Wks. [Works]"
Hoboken Land & Improvement Co.
Owners of Bldgs.
Hoboken, N.J.
Surveyed, April 23, 1907. Scale of Plan & View, 1 in. = 50 ft.
Surveyed & draw'g by E.H. Tenney See N.B. 492 p. 18
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Selected text from lower right corner:
Plan Department of the Associated Mutual Insurance Co's., Boston, Mass.
Serial Number. 7805. This replaces No. 5126.
Index no. 70
N [missing corner]
Plant draw [drawing] #763.
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Only buildings that were solidly colored were covered by this insurance policy. Buildings are labeled by use and details are recorded of type, construction and materials. Other buildings shown, but not part of the policy, had only color outlines. These included several Hoboken Ferry Co. buildings at Fourteenth St.; motor vehicle co., foundry and stores. Fletcher's piers are indicated, but drydocks are not shown.
A few buildings outside the site are indicated - on the north side of 14th St. are saloons and stores; on the west side of Hudson St. are a saloon, stores, tenement and machine shop.
No railroad tracks or connections are shown; they are seen on the 1919 version.
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Accession
2011.025Source or Donor
Cangelosi, JosephAcquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
Gift of Joseph Cangelosi.Archive Details
Date(s) of Creation
1907 - 1907Archive Notes
Date(s) Created: 1907
Date(s): 1907General Notes
Note
Notes: Fletcher, a ship outfitting and repair business (also produced ship engines), was succeeded on this site by United Dry Dock, Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard and Hoboken Shipyards, Inc. The only building left that is on this drawing is the Machine Shop on the east side of Hudson Street. The entire area was redeveloped in the late 1990s and early 2000s as The Shipyard, a group of large residential buildings which included some commercial and retail spaces, restaurant, park, rehabilitated piers, ferry landing, marina plus a museum (Hoboken Historical Museum).
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This sheet was from the adminstrative records of the Bethlehem Steel, Hoboken Shipyard offices.
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2012-06-21
