Frank J. Nies

Newark Broad Street Station, built 1901-03

Frank J. Nies was an American architect best known for having designed numerous Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad stations, at least fifteen of which have been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (with attribution below as given in NRHP):[1] He sometimes worked with the railroad's chief engineer, Lincoln Bush. Before working for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, Nies was a partner in the architectural firm Finkler & Nies, with Adolph Finkler, in Chicago in 1896.[2]

Works

• Newark Broad Street Station (1901–03), Broad and University Sts., Newark, N.J., (Nies, Frank J.), NRHP
• Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Station (Dover) (1902), N. Dickerson St., Dover, N.J., (Nies, F.J.), NRHP
• Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Water Gap Station (1903), Waring Dr., Delaware Water Gap, PA, (Nies, Frank,J.), NRHP
• Delaware, Lackawanna and Western record building (1904), Hoboken, N.J.[3]
• Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Yard-Dickson Manufacturing Co. Site
• Locomotive and Car Repair Shops, Kingslan, N.J. (1904)[4]
• Delaware, Lackawanna and Western car shops (1904), Keyser Valley, Pennsylvania [5]
• Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Station (Boonton) (1905), Myrtle Ave., Main, and Division Sts., Boonton, N.J., (Nies, Frank J.), NRHP
• Ampere Station (1907), Ampere Plaza and Whitney Pl., East Orange, N.J., (Nies, Frank J.), NRHP
• Delaware, Lackawanna and Western locomotive shops (1907), Scranton, Pennsylvania ,[6]
• Lake Hopatcong Station (1911), Landing Road, Roxbury Township, New Jersey; William Hull Botsford, Frank J. Nies, and V. D. Steinbach, architects; NRHP
• Bloomfield Station (1912), Washington St. and Glenwood Ave., Bloomfield, N.J., (Nies, Frank J.), NRHP
• Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Station (Morristown) (1913), 132 Morris St., Morristown, N.J., (Nies, F.J.), NRHP
• Phillipsburg Union Station (1914), 178 South Main Street, Phillipsburg, New Jersey,[7] NRHP
• Station and Freight House, Far Hills, N.J. (1914)[8]
• Morris Plains Station (1915), Speedwell Ave., Morris Plains, N.J., (Nies, Frank J.), NRHP
• Mountain Station (1915), 449 Vose Ave., South Orange, N.J., (Nies, Frank J.), NRHP
• Madison Station (1916), Kings Rd., Madison, N.J., (Nies, Frank J.), NRHP
• South Orange Station (1916), 19 Sloan St., South Orange, N.J., (Nies, Frank J.), NRHP
• Orange Station (1918), 73 Lincoln Ave., Orange, N.J., (Nies, F.J.), NRHP
• Freight House, Hoboken, N.J. (1918)[9]
• Houses for mine foreman and miners, Loomis colliery, Plymouth, Pennsylvania (1919)[10]
• Brick Church Station (1921), Brick Church Plaza, East Orange, N.J., (Nies, F.J.), NRHP
• East Orange Station (1922), 65 City Hall Plaza, East Orange, N.J., (Nies, F.W.),[11] NRHP

See also

• Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource (New Jersey)
• Bradford Gilbert
• George E. Archer

Gallery

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  Ampere Station
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  Bloomfield Station
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  Brick Church Station
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  Morristown Station
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  Boonton Station
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  Dover Station
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  Delaware Water Gap Station
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  East Orange Station
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  Madison Station
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  Phillipsburg Union Station
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  Lake Hopatcong Station

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. The Economist: A Weekly Financial, Commercial, and Real-estate Newspaper. Economist Publishing Company. 1896-03-28. p. 401.
3. "What's that building?? Mysteries inside giant structures revealed - J'ever wonder what that factory building is on the other side of the highway? Or the giant red tower? It's common to pass Hudson's huge structures and not know what they are. Some..." Retrieved 2016-12-11.
4. The Railway Age. publisher not identified. 1904-10-21. p. 588.
5. The Railway Age. Railway Age Publishing Company. 1904-10-28. pp. 618–622.
6. Wingate, Charles Frederick; Meyer, Henry C. (1909-10-16). The Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer. pp. 427–429.
7. "Phillipsburg Commercial Historic District: Phillipsburg Union Train Station". New Jersey Historic Trust. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
8. The Carpenters Trade Journal ... 1914-09-01. p. 13.
9. The American Contractor. F. W. Dodge Corporation. 1918-07-06. p. 60.
10. Catalog of copyright entries: Works of art.... Part 4. Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1919-01-01. p. 3165.
11. Note this one may be a typo in NRIS