Abraham Burton Cohen Apartment Building in East Orange, NJ



Photo by Craig Nunn.

The East Orange, NJ apartment building where Abraham Burton Cohen was living when he died in 1956. Who was A.B. Cohen you may ask? Only the greatest builder of railroad grade eliminations in US history (over 200 I believe). As an engineer for the Lackawanna Railroad, he was a pioneer in reinforced concrete construction and was responsible for the design of the Paulinskill and Tunkahonnock viaducts (1910 and 1915 respectively). Both I believe were the largest reinforced concrete structures in the world when built - the latter remaining so for some 50 years.