Camp Evans Historic District

Camp Evans Historic District is an area of the Camp Evans Formerly Used Defense Site in Wall Township, New Jersey. The site of the military installation (40°11′08″N 074°03′45″W) is noted for a 1914 transatlantic radio receiver and various World War II/Cold War laboratories of the United States Army (e.g., signal, vacuum tube, dosimetry, & photo-optics). It was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2012, in recognition of the site's long role in the development of modern civilian and military electronic communications.

This article is about a historic district in New Jersey. For the American Civil War site in Virginia, see Fort Evans. For the Army's Evans 65 ft (20 m) utility ship with the same eponym (Lt Col Paul Wesley Evans), see List of ships of the United States Army. For the 1968 Camp Evans near Phong Điền, Vietnam, see Camp Evans (Vietnam).

Camp Evans Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark District
The Marconi Hotel dedicated in 1914 at the Belmar Receiving Station is now InfoAge's "main campus"
Nearest cityBelmar, New Jersey
Coordinates40°11′20″N 74°3′53″W
Area55 acres (22 ha)
Built1912–1914
NRHP reference No.02000274
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMarch 26, 2002
Designated NHLDOctober 16, 2012
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