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M. T. Connolly Contracting Company
| Name | M. T. Connolly Contracting Company |
| Ortssitz | Jersey City (N.J.) |
| Straße | Seventeenth Street 238 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Bauunternehmung |
| Anmerkungen | Die Verwaltung ist in der 238 Seventeenth Street. |
| Quellenangaben | [Jersey City of to-day (1907) 93] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1858 |
Gründung durch Michael Connolly. - Seine Nachfolger sind Connolly Brothers, dann M. T. Connolly |
| 1898 |
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1858 |
Beginn (Gründung) |
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| ZEIT | um 1907 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The officers of the present company are M. T. Connolly, president and treasurer ; M. L. Connolly, vice-president and John Riley, secretary, and these officers are also the directors. Among the first construction work of the original concern was St. Francis' Hospital, the Meehan row of flats at Erie and Eleventh Streets, the row known as the "Houses that Jack built," and considerable tenement property in the "Horseshoe" district of Jersey City. During the management of the concern by Connolly Brothers they built the Lewis Fiacker row at the junction of Newark and Railroad Avenues, the Carscallen and Cassidy feed mill, the A. J. Corcoran windmill factory, the first electric light plant in Hoboken, and many flats and tenements throughout Jersey City. The work done while M. T. Connolly was conducting the business alone was very notable. He constructed the main outlet sewer for Jersey City and Hoboken, and in building this was the first contractor to successfully tunnel the Morris Canal. He also constructed the first buildings on the old Elysian Fields of Hoboken, comprising a total of forty houses on Eleventh and Garden Streets, Fourteenth Street and Bloomfield Avenue, and Ninth and Garden Streets. His other work included the Linden Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, the Italian Church of Hoboken, the elevated road of the then North Hudson County Railroad Company from Hoboken to Jersey City, the elevated road from the Weehawken terminal to the El Dorado Amusement Park, the electric lighting plant for Hudson County at Snake Hill, the entire sewer system of Weehawken, the Mercer Street viaduct (which is still in an excellent state of preservation), Public School No. 1 of Jersey City, the Lembeck and Betz Eagle brewery, the N. B. Cushing Company warehouse, the Standard Fashion Company factory, the Pennsylvania Railroad shops on the River Road, Hoboken, several large factories for the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company, the Erie Railroad freight house and round house at Weehawken, the Meyanberg silk mills, and half of the present buildings in lower Jersey City north of Pavonia Avenue. The present company has shared in the general prosperity of the city, and has had all the work possible for it to handle. Notable among its successes have been Public Schools Nos. 2, 1 1, 14, and 31 in Jersey City, the Sixth Precinct station house in Jersey City, the Second Precinct station house in Hoboken, the fire house on Washington Street, Hoboken, two rows of flats for Dennis McLaughlin in Hoboken, the J. and W. Cahill & Co. building, and the Normandy buildings in Hoboken, the Eagan School (rebuilt), St. Joseph's rectory in Hoboken, the Osborn factory, a number of private houses for the Stevens family at Castle Point, the American Type Founder's Company factory, the International Watch Company factory, the Automobile Company of America factory, the W. M. Obergfell wagon factory, the Young Men's Christian Association building on Central Avenue, the Cuneo row, the Wolf, Walter and Coyle buildings on Newark Avenue, the Halstead and Company packing house and stables, the Jersey City Hospital, All Saint's Roman Catholic Church, several large flats in Jersey City, the Democratic Club of Bayonne, the Lembeck and Betz Eagle Brewing Company brewery, the Manhattan Laundry and the alteration of several buildings for the American Tobacco Company. The company has also built and sold a number of large flats in Hoboken. It constructed the water pipe lines of Bayonne and the main sewer into the Kill von Kull, a job that had been abandoned by three other contractors and considered by them impossible to be carried out. It reconstructed the water main across the Hackensack river, and thawed out the frozen pipes under the bed of the river; constructed about fifteen miles of sewer in Bayonne and an equal number in Jersey City; laid considerable macadam roads in Bayonne and street paving in Jersey City and Hoboken, and, with its patent sewer cleaner cleaned out the entire sewer system in Hoboken and sewer system in Jersey City which had been practically abandoned. The firm is a member of the Board of Trade of Jersey City. The M. T. Connolly Contracting Company is one of those sound business corporations of the great manufacturing city of Jersey City where customers are always assured of the best of workmanship by the highest class of labor and the careful and conscientious supervision of the work by experienced men who know the construction business in all its phases, who keep up to the minute in all new methods of construction, and who adopt those methods where they find them practical. The work that the company has done in the construction of the many buildings mentioned, some of the most prominent in Hudson County, is the best evidence of the patronage given it at the hands of the men and companies who control the destiny of Jersey City, and in no case has any question been raised as to the character of the work. Mr. Connolly gives his personal attention to all work, and lends to all contracts the benefit of his experience of many decades, with the result that there are no complaints, but compliments on all sides. |
| QUELLE | [Jersey City of to-day (1907) 92] |
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