Although Yankee Stadium (1923 - 2008) was a fine example the work of The Edison Portland Cement Company, Thomas Edison's single pour concrete houses were a dismal failure.
Touting concrete houses as the answer to affordable housing and efficiency on the scale of Ford's mass production of the automobile, Edison's invention required builders to purchase an estimated two thousand nickel-plated iron forms weighing up to half a million pounds at a cost of $175,000. That initial outlay was too expensive for most builders given the resulting concrete house would sell for only $1,200.
Few were built and few remain today. Union NJ is a home to a cluster of the original concrete houses.
Solve the puzzle to find the final coordinates.
Assume N 40 41._ _ _ W 074 15._ _ _
North = The year Thomas Edison was born minus 1173
West = The year Thomas Edison died minus 1081
Parking at the final location is by permit only, so parking coords have been provided.
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