National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form: Camp Dix Warehouse Historic District

Summary

This report is a nomination form for Camp Dix Warehouse Historic District to the National Register of Historic Places Inventory. Includes descriptions, photographs, and related correspondence.

The Camp Dix Warehouse Historic District, located entirely within Fort Dix in central New jersey, is composed of five originally identical frame warehouses and the masonry base of a grain elevator. All were built as part of the mobilization which followed the entry of the United States into World War I in the Spring of 1917, although some of the subject buildings were not built until 1918.

The Camp Dix Warehouse Historic District is significant because it is the most intact remnant of the original Camp Dix. Although the camp originally contained approximately 1600 buildings, only this small complex and two other structures are believed to survive from that era. The significance of the district derives from the importance of the event for which it was built as well as the absence of the majority of the other buildings constructed at Camp Dix at the same time. For this reason, the district is a surrogate for all other World War I buildings at Dix which no longer exist, and the historical narrative which follows dwells not just on the warehouses but on the camp as a whole.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Fort Dix Archaeology and Cultural Resources Archive

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Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1917 to 1918 (Dates of construction for structures in the Camp Dix Warehouse Historic District)

Spatial Coverage

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Air Force Base

Landowner(s): Fort Dix

Prepared By(s): Heritage Studies, Inc.

Submitted To(s): United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service

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