Bethlehem Steel Company Shipyard, Carpenter Shop, 1201-1321 Hudson Street, Hoboken, Hudson County, NJ

Significance: The Carpenter Shop is sited to the east of the Machine Shop within the Bethlehem Steel Company Shipyard complex. This structure was built as a woodworking shop by the W. & A. Fletcher Company in 1918 as part of a program of expansion during the First World War. The building was expanded circa 1920 and remained in use primarily as a woodworking facility (it also housed some metal-working activities) until the closing of the yard in 1984.

Survey number: HAER NJ-95-D

Building/structure dates: 1918 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Subsequent Work

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