Spear and Company Factory
National Register of Historic Places

Spear and Company Factory

Ozone Park, Queens County, New York
Listed
November 9, 2017
Type
Building
Period
Civil War
Ref No.
100001807

About this property

The Spear Building is an 85,000-square-foot, four-story building that was a hat factory and wax novelty manufacturer in its 1920s heyday. It is located at 94-15 100th Street, between 94th and 95th Avenues one block from in the Woodhaven neighborhood of Queens, New York City, and is best known as the location of the Worksman Cycles Factory, a manufacturer of iconic pushcarts, tricycles and heavy duty bicycles. The building was listed on the New York State Register of Historic Places in 2017. The same year, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as an example of an intact early 20th-century reinforced concrete factory complex.

Location

94-15 100th St.
Ozone Park, Queens County, New York
40.68870, -73.84304

Categories

INDUSTRYARCHITECTURE
Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

Description adapted from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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When was Spear and Company Factory listed on the National Register?

Spear and Company Factory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 9, 2017.

What type of historic resource is Spear and Company Factory?

Spear and Company Factory is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Spear and Company Factory?

The period of significance for Spear and Company Factory is recorded as the civil_war era.

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