Appendix Eight: Locations

For historical reference, the following is a list of known DuMont plants and locations. This list is reprinted verbatim from a 1953 book called The Story of Television, published by Allen B. DuMont Laboratories. The author is interested in learning whether these buildings still remain today, and if so, for what purposes they are being utilized, more than forty years after DuMont's demise.

Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, Inc.
Plants and Locations

General Offices
750 Bloomfield Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey

Research Division
2 Main Avenue, Passaic, New Jersey

Cathode-Ray Tube Division
750 Bloomfield Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey

Instrument Division
750 Bloomfield Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey

International Division
Empire State Building, New York 1, New York

Television Receiver Manufacturing and Sales Divisions
35 Market Street, East Paterson, New Jersey

Television Receiver Service Control Department
263 16th Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey

Television Receiver Sales Branches
1114-16 First Avenue, New York, New York
579 Scotland Road, Orange, New Jersey
418 South West 8th Avenue, Miami, Florida
American Furniture Mart, 666 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois
Distributors and Dealers in all leading cities

Transmitter Division
1500 Main Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey

Government Department
750 Bloomfield Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey

DuMont Television Network
515 Madison Avenue, New York 22, New York

Television Station WABD General Offices
515 Madison Avenue, New York 22, New York

Transmitter
Empire State Building, New York 1, New York

Tele-Centre Studios 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
205 East 67th Street, New York 21, New York

Studios A, B, and C
John Wanamaker's, Broadway at 9th Street, New York 3, New York

DuMont Adelphi Theatre
152 West 54th Street, New York 19, New York

DuMont Ambassador Theatre
215 West 49th Street, New York 19, New York

Television Station WTTG
Raleigh Hotel, 12 and E Streets, N.W., Washington 4, D.C.

Television Station WDTV
Chamber of Commerce Building, 411 Seventh Avenue, Pittsburgh 19, Pa.

In Canada
DuMont Television and Electronics, Ltd., 901 Victoria, Montreal

Update

Doug Douglass was kind enough to provide the author with the following information.

"2 Main Avenue in Passaic is now used by a design firm. (Note: The author has since identified the firm as Michaelangelo Designs. Before becoming DuMont's first headquarters, this building was a pickle works.)

"The Adelphi Theatre was demolished to make way for an addition to the New York Hilton Hotel.

"The Ambassador Theatre (as of April, 1999 -ed.) housed the musical revival of 'You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown'."

Doug also sent the author some marvelous pictures of former DuMont locations, including the former DuMont headquarters at 750 Bloomfield Avenue in Clifton, New Jersey, which (in a non sequitur equal to the converted pickle factory) is now, at least according to the sign in the window, a "Wallcovering Warehouse"!

The author hopes to post these pictures on this Web site when time and circumstances permit.

Go to Appendix Nine: Affiliates