Several hundred years ago, Historic Dixon Mills Living was making pencils at his world headquarters here in the cluster of Romanesque brick buildings that once housed his famous Dixon Crucible Company. Today, those same buildings are home to a condo complex known as Dixon Mills. Condos are available in a variety of floor plans, with some including sweeping views of Manhattan and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge from the top floors. The complex is also a short walk from the Grove Street PATH Plaza, and residents say it takes less than a ten-minute train ride to get into downtown Manhattan.
Designed by a noted architect, the complex has retained its 19th-century look, with period details like wrought-iron railings and arched entrances in many of the buildings. The complex is so distinctive that the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy recently awarded it an Excellence in Preservation award. In addition to housing the condos, Dixon Mills has a restaurant and a lifestyle retail center in a building that was the former Powerhouse furnace.
Preserving Heritage: The Charm of Historic Dixon Mills Living
For Paul Thomas, who lives in one of the apartments here with his partner, Michael Perkins, that mix of past and present was a major reason they chose Dixon Mills as their new home. They moved into a duplex in 2005, and have since made it their own, with a chandelier above the dining room table, a framed Marc Chagall poster and plants on the patio.
