{"nrhp_refnum":"12000531","name":"Ansco Company Charles Street Factory Buildings","other_names":["Agfa-Ansco, General Aniline and Film (GAF), Anitec"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"15 & 17 Charles, & 219 Clinton Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Binghamton","county":"Broome County","state":"NY","lat":42.091088927000044,"lon":-75.92834692899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-08-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-building industrial district in Binghamton's First Ward, Broome County, New York, made up of the factory buildings at 15 and 17 Charles Street (built 1910-1911) and a warehouse at 219 Clinton Street (built 1953-54). All three were part of the Ansco photographic film and paper complex.","why_significant":"The three buildings are the only surviving structures of a once-large Ansco factory campus of more than fifty buildings. They illustrate the company's industrial role in Binghamton and successive fire-resistant and mid-century industrial construction methods, from heavy timber mill construction to steel-reinforced concrete and a wide-span concrete block warehouse.","narrative":"Three surviving buildings mark the site of the Ansco Company's former factory in Binghamton's First Ward. The complex once held more than fifty buildings used to make photographic films and papers, most of them demolished in 2000. The remaining structures are 15 Charles Street, a long brick and heavy-timber loft building that served as the paper plant; 17 Charles Street, a brick-clad, steel-reinforced concrete power house; and 219 Clinton Street, a concrete block warehouse built in 1953-54 as trucking replaced rail shipping. The first two date from 1910-1911 and reflect early efforts at fire-resistant industrial construction, including controlled interiors for paper manufacturing and fire-separated boiler and dynamo rooms. The warehouse represents the company's last profitable era in the city. Today the buildings hold offices, storage, a dance studio, student housing and medical offices, while keeping exposed brick, timber and steel structure. They were listed for their industrial history and their construction types.","period_of_significance":"1910 - 1954","architect_builder":"Frank W. O'Connell, Inc. contractors (219 Clinton); warehouse designed by Ansco engineers","architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated and in adaptive reuse: 15 Charles Street holds storage, offices, a dance studio and student apartments; 17 Charles Street is used as a physical therapy office. The surrounding former factory area is largely vacant land.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.394893-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/12000531.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312142","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansco_Company_Charles_Street_Factory_Buildings","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23091383"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/broome-county/ansco-company-charles-street-factory-buildings-12000531/"}