Newark Metropolitan Airport Buildings

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Newark Metropolitan Airport Buildings

| nrhp_type =

| image = Newark Metropolitan Airport.jpg

| caption = Administration Building during relocation

| location = U.S. 22, Newark, New Jersey

| coordinates = {{coord|40|42|17|N|74|10|12|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = USA New Jersey Essex County#New Jersey#USA

| built = 1934

| architecture = Art Deco

| added = December 12, 1980

| area = {{convert|5|acre}}

| refnum = 80002485{{NRISref|2009a}}

| designated_other1_name = New Jersey Register of Historic Places

| designated_other1_abbr = NJRHP

| designated_other1_link = New Jersey Register of Historic Places

| designated_other1_date = June 25, 1980

| designated_other1_number = 1295{{cite web | title=New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Essex County | url=http://www.state.nj.us/dep/hpo/1identify/lists/essex.pdf | publisher=New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office | page=3 | date=January 10, 2010 | accessdate=May 13, 2010 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327025729/http://www.state.nj.us/dep/hpo/1identify/lists/essex.pdf | archivedate=March 27, 2009 }}

| designated_other1_num_position = bottom

| designated_other1_color = #ffc94b

}}

File:NewarkAirportAdminBldg(restored).tif

The Newark Metropolitan Airport Buildings are at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey. Newark Metropolitan, opened in 1928, was the first major airport in the United States. The trio of Art Deco buildings, the Administration Building, Brewster Hangar and the Medical Building, were built in 1934 and dedicated by Amelia Earhart in 1935.{{Cite web|title = Newark Metropolitan Airport|work = From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms |publisher=National Park Service |url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/newark-metropolitan-airport.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127132043/https://www.nps.gov/articles/newark-metropolitan-airport.htm |archive-date=2020-11-27 }} They were added to state and federal registers of historic places in 1980. In 2001, the Administration Building was relocated when a runway was lengthened,{{cite web | title = HISTORIC, 5,000-TON NEWARK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TERMINAL, AN ART DECO LANDMARK, MAKING A 3,700-FOOT TRIP TO NEW SITE - The Move of the Central Section of Building 51 is the Heaviest Structure Move on Rubber-Tire Dollies in U.S. History | publisher = PANYNJ | date = Mar 28, 2001 | url = http://www.panynj.gov/press-room/press-item.cfm?headLine_id=36 | accessdate = 2013-12-05}} and they have subsequently been renovated.{{Cite web|url=https://panynj.gov/port-authority/en/press-room/press-release-archives/2002_press_releases/port_authority_snationalhistoriclandmarkbuildingonerededicatedat.html |id=140-2002 |title=PORT AUTHORITY’S NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK BUILDING ONE REDEDICATED AT NEWARK LIBERTY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT |publisher=Port Authority |date=Dec 17, 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240919180016/https://www.panynj.gov/port-authority/en/press-room/press-release-archives/2002_press_releases/port_authority_snationalhistoriclandmarkbuildingonerededicatedat.html |archive-date=2024-09-19}} The terminal was once adorned with murals by Arshile Gorky,{{cite web| title=Arshile Gorky's Newark Airport Murals| work=Abstract Expressionism| publisher=warholstars.org| date=| url=http://www.warholstars.org/abstractexpressionism/artists/gorky/newark_airport.html| doi=| accessdate=2011-09-30| quote=| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402225213/http://www.warholstars.org/abstractexpressionism/artists/gorky/newark_airport.html| archive-date=2012-04-02| url-status=dead}} only two of which survive and are part of the Newark Museum collection.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/13/nyregion/art-gorky-s-airport-murals-at-the-newark-museum.html|title=Art; Gorky's Airport Murals at the Newark Museum|newspaper=The New York Times|date=13 June 1982|last1=l. Shirey|first1=David}}