Area less than one acre Year built 1891 | NRHP Reference # 06001003 Added to NRHP 8 November 2006 | |
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Location NY 167, Little Falls, New York | ||
Italian Community Bake Oven is a historic community bake oven located at Little Falls in Herkimer County, New York. It was built about 1891 and is abandoned. The utilitarian structure consists of a large rectangle of stone masonry outer walls enclosing the brick bake oven. The dimensions are approximately 16 feet wide, 20 feet deep, and 6 feet high. It was built to furnish large quantities of bread for Italian immigrant railroad workers in a work camp during 1891–1892.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
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