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Hinchliffe Stadium Phase I Rehabilitation
Groundbreaking Ceremony
On August 29, 2018 the City of Paterson hosted a ground breaking ceremony for the Phase I Rehabilitation of Hinchliffe Stadium.
Following three years of site investigations, design development and historic preservation reviews by a team of multi-disciplinary professionals, and a broad coalition of government agencies, including the City of Paterson, NJ Department of Environmental Protection, and the National Park Service, this exciting project is ready to begin construction.
The $1.5 million project consists of preservation, conservation and rehabilitation activities on the façade of the stadium. Its decorative terra cotta tiles of sports figures, Art Deco-inspired geometric cast-concrete styling, red-tile roofing and other decorative features survive, but the concrete structure is damaged from long-term water infiltration and vegetative growth. This construction project will rehabilitate and stabilize sensitive portions of the stadium to arrest ongoing environmental deterioration as well
as provide protection fro
m ongoing vandalism.
Hinchliffe stadium opened in 1932 and is listed on the federal, state
and municipal reg
isters of historic places. It was listed as a 10 Most Endangered Histor
ic Place in NJ in 1997. It has since been esteemed as a National Historic Landmark in 2013, and officially added to the Great Falls National Historical Park in 2014.
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