{"nrhp_refnum":"82001160","name":"Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory","other_names":["Central Press"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6-1 N. Cherry St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Poughkeepsie","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.70170989800005,"lon":-73.91793148899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-11-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 3-1/2-story brick factory building at 6-10 North Cherry Street in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, first built around 1874 and doubled in size around 1887.","why_significant":"The building housed a series of manufacturing concerns, most notably the Poughkeepsie Underwear Company, which made women's and children's undergarments sold across the country. It is described as a remarkably intact late-19th-century industrial building with period offices and early-20th-century machinery. It is one of three surviving 19th-century industrial buildings in Poughkeepsie considered worthy of listing, representing the city's heyday as a small factory town.","narrative":"Rising three and a half stories along North Cherry Street in Poughkeepsie, this brick factory dates to about 1874, when it opened as William S. Patten's Live Oak Leather Manufactury. By 1887 it belonged to the Dutchess Manufacturing Company, which roughly doubled its size. It later served as a cooperage before becoming the Poughkeepsie Underwear Company in 1902. The firm made women's and children's undergarments marketed as Queen Undermuslins. In 1906 it employed 175 people and produced more than 60,000 dozen garments a year, selling them from coast to coast and as far away as Australia. The building has an eight-bay facade with a molded projecting cornice, three-tier brick segmental arches and stone sills. Inside, period woodwork survives in the front offices and early-20th-century machinery remains on the upper floors. It is one of three surviving 19th-century industrial buildings in Poughkeepsie, alongside the Innis Dye Works and Pelton Carpet Mill, that reflect the city's era as a small factory town.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late-19th-century industrial architecture","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition; used as factory and storage. The interior is described as intact with period woodwork and early 20th century machinery. An elevator shaft was added at the rear in the early 20th century.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.183861-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82001160.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001160/96cb4636a7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001160/96cb4636a7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poughkeepsie_Underwear_Factory,_Poughkeepsie_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poughkeepsie_Underwear_Factory,_Poughkeepsie_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312715","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poughkeepsie_Underwear_Factory","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7235501"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/poughkeepsie-underwear-factory-82001160/"}