J.R. Quigley Plant, Gloucester City, New Jersey
Seth Hinshaw, 6/3/2019
Recently I stopped to see the Quigley offices in Gloucester City, New Jersey. This company had an interesting history, and I included a short overview of the company in my book A Field Guide to American Residential Doors.
The original plant was built in 1888, then rebuilt in 1929. The new plant was shown in the 1934 catalog:
Since that time, the trees in front of the building obscure the building. After Quigley went out of business in the 1950s, the building was purchased for use by a religious organization.
Here is an image of the current building, which provides a similar perspective to the sketch above.
Here is the opposite corner of the front of the building:
Here is the datestone:
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