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The Bridges and Skyscrappers of New Jersey
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The Beginning of The Iron and Steel Indusry In Trenton
The iron and steel industry of New Jersey started in Trenton in the Year 1745. This is when Benjamin Yard bought Isac Harrow's planting and blade mill then used it to produce frying pans, shears, cooper's chovels,and cowbells. This would start the foundation of the steel mill in New Jersey. -
Universal Mill The First In America
The Cooper and Hewitt family joins together to create the Universal Mill that became the first mill company in America to roll wrought iron beams for fire proof buildings. This mill in Trenton made beams for Nassau Hall, the dome in the Capital Building and beams for the Treasury building in Washington, D.C. -
Roebling Family Moves Steel Operation to Trenton
In 1848 was a turning point in the industrial history in New Jersey. John Roebling moved his wired rope operation from Pennsylvania to Trenton. Business then thrived wich later led to build famous bridges as the Brooklyn Bridge,Wheeling Bridge and the Niagara Gorge. -
Roebling Family Builds a Town
The Roebling Family moves out of Trenton into Burlington County to expand there successful wire steel mill company. This move would develop a new town named Roebling township of New Jersey. -
Fireman's Insurance Building in Newark
The Fireman's Insurance Building was one of the first skyscrapers in the Newark and the tallest in the city upon its completion in 1910. -
Gothel Bridge Opening
The Goethal Bridge is one of the three Staten Island bridges linking New Jersey to New York. It was Finally completed and opened in June of 1928. -
The OutterBridge Crossing
Opened in 1928. It is a steel catilever construction designed by John Alexander Low Waddell and built under the auspices of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.This bridge saw high traffic counts until the opening of Verrazano Brdige in 1964. The traffic count were also depressed due to the effects of the Great Depression and World War II. -
George Washington Bridge
The GWB was completed in 1931 and during the first full year following up to 1932 saw more than 5.5 million vehicles going through it. This bidge connects New Jersey Palisades to Manhatten. -
Camden City Hall
The city hall was designed by Byron Edwards and Alfred Green, Architectural partners who moved from Philadelphia to Camden in 1928, and its materials were supplied by the Otis Elevator Company. At the top of the tower is a large clock consistent with a Camden tradition of city hall clocks begun in 1876. -
Bayonne Bridge Connects New Jersey To Staten Island
Completed in 1931, the Bayonne Bridge would serve automobile traffic from commuters who worked in Lower Manhattan and lived in bedroom communities on Staten Island-communities that would spring up as a result of the bridge. -
National Newark Building in 1931
The National Newark Building is a office skyscrappeer in Newark. It was the tallest building in Newark since 1931 and was the tallest in New Jersey until 1989. It stands at 35 stories high. -
History of Pulaski Skyway
Completed in 1932 at a cost of $20 million named after than General Casmir Pulaski was one of the most expensive bridge at that time. The 3.5 miles long, 18 million-pound elevated roadway spans Jersey City to Kearny and peaks at 135 feet over the Hackensack and Passaic rivers, a height that allowed clearance for the warships of the day. -
Pruddential Plaza Building
Tallest Building constructed in New Jersey in the 1960s. standing at 374 ft high. -
Goldman Sachs Tower
The Goldman Sachs Tower is the 176th- tallest building in the world, 54th- tallest in the United States and the number one tallest building in New Jersey since 2004 when it was finally completed. -
Revel Resort in Atlantic City New Jersey
Revel Resort is the Tallest building in Atlantic City since 2012 and the second tallest Casino tower in the United States.
