Frank J. Nies

Newark Broad Street Station, built 1901-03

Frank J. Nies was an American architect. He is best known for having designed numerous Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad stations, among which are those below listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (with attribution 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
• Locomotive and Car Repair Shops, Kingslan, N.J. (1904)^[3]
• 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
• 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,^[4] NRHP
• Station and Freight House, Far Hills, N.J. (1914)^[5]
• 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)^[6]
• Houses for mine foreman and miners, Loomis colliery, Plymouth, Pennsylvania (1919)^[7]
• 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.),^[8] 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

References

1. National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. The Economist: A Weekly Financial, Commercial, and Real-estate Newspaper. Economist Publishing Company. 1896-03-28. p. 401.
3. The Railway Age. publisher not identified. 1904-10-21. p. 588.
4. "Phillipsburg Commercial Historic District: Phillipsburg Union Train Station". New Jersey Historic Trust. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
5. The Carpenters Trade Journal ... 1914-09-01. p. 13.
6. The American Contractor. F. W. Dodge Corporation. 1918-07-06. p. 60.
7. Catalog of copyright entries: Works of art.... Part 4. Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1919-01-01. p. 3165.
8. Note this one may be a typo in NRIS