title: U.S. Animal Quarantine Station
text: # U.S. Animal Quarantine Station
  
  The United States Animal Quarantine Station is located in the city of Clifton in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. The buildings were built in 1900. The facility, considered the Ellis Island for Animals, closed in 1975. The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 9, 1981, for its significance in agriculture. Part of the site is now the Clifton Municipal Complex. Two of the buildings were renovated and turned into the Clifton Arts Center Gallery and Studio. An atrium was built to connect the two buildings. It is considered to be threatened site.
  
  ## History and description
  
  The station originally contained 27 buildings built between 1900 and 1907 on a 49-acre (20 ha) property. It operated from 1900 to 1979 to receive and isolate foreign animals entering the country. There were 14 brick barns at the site. In 1966, the property was sold to the city. In 2000, the Clifton Arts Center, founded by Gloria J. Kolodziej, opened here using two of the brick barns.
  
  