Archive Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
AD016 |
Title |
Eldredge Brewing Company blueprints and drawings, 1918-1937 |
Scope & Content |
Descriptions and measurements of the land and buildings of the Eldredge Brewing Company located on Cate Street in Portsmouth, New Hamsphire, doing business as Frank Jones Brewing Company. Dated from 1918 to 1937 and undated. Incudes blueprints of the brewery site from 1918 and 1924. Also includes 1937 blueprints of the site on Islington Street, the cold storage room, shipping room, boiler house and engine room, the bottling shop, and the bottle storage and racking room, all drawn by civil engineer John V. Durgin. There are also amended drawings of first floor storage and basement storage and an exchange of land and rights of way between the City of Portsmouth and the Eldredge Brewing Company dated to 1937 and an undated drawing of Lot 33 in the Cate Street area. |
Admin/Biographical History |
The Frank Jones Brewery did not reopen after Prohibition ended, and the Eldredge Brewing Company brewed ale in the old Frank Jones plant under the Eldredge name from 1933 to 1937. In 1937 the Eldredge Brewing Company renamed itself the Frank Jones Brewery and renamed its ale Frank Jones Ale. In 1947 the company was sold to the rum distillery, Caldwell Inc., and operations ceased. |
Collection |
Architectural Drawings Collection |
Object Name |
Drawing, Architectural |
Date |
1918-1937, undated |
Extent of Description |
1 folder |
Search Terms |
Cate Street Eldredge Brewery Frank Jones Brewery (Islington Street) Islington Street Portsmouth (N.H.) |
Subjects |
Architectural drawings Blueprints Breweries Brewing industry Surveys |
Relation |
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