Warehouse No 34

DESCRIPTION:

This high one story brick building stands in an area where a nearby Saw Mill once stored its logs. Designed by Arthur S. Coffin, it was built in 1912 by the Sullivan Machinery Company, manufacturers of quarrying and mining equipment. A trolley track ran inside the warehouse to facilitate loading. Although there was a welding department on the first floor in the 1930s, it was principally used as a warehouse until 1967. The warehouse was sold by Sullivan Machinery's successor firm, Joy Manufacturing Company, to the city of Claremont; it was then resold in 1974 to Bourdon, Inc., a mattress manufacturing concern. The windows of the building are presently bricked in or covered with plywood.

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Not specifically addressed.

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES

Maps: Sanborn: 1904, 1918, 1963.

Joy Manufacturing Company, Factory Insurance Map, 1962.

Sullivan County Registry of Deeds, Newport, NH.

Oral interview, Leslie Currier, 7/18/1978, Claremont, NH.

FORM PREPARED BY: Ann Henderson, HAER/TPS Claremont Project Tel: not given. Date: August 25, 1978.

DATE ENTERED: February 28, 1979.
(Source 27)