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B&W photo of mixed-use apartment building at 245 Garden Street, Hoboken.

Photograph
Ground floor storefront signage reads: CANDY SODA ABBOTTS ICE CREAM; 243 LEADER MARKET; FREE MOTHPROOFING. A real estate sign posted on a corner column reads: SOLD C.B. SNYDER. The frieze above the portico entrance flanked by columns reads: ELIZABETH. Circa 1950s automobiles are parked along the curb.

2023.011.0013

Gelatin Print - silver bromide

Mixed-use row house apartment building; corner lot; attached on one side; rectangular plan; 5 stories; 7 bays except 5 bays on side including 4 three-sided oriels and ground floor storefronts; stone façade on the second floor and brick façade on the third, fourth and fifth floors; single 1/1 sash windows except entry bays and ground floor storefronts; flat roof; denticulated cornice; keystone flat arch lintels on second, third and fourth floors, festooned window heads on fifth floor; stone sills; portico residential entrance with arched doorway, columns and frieze that reads ELIZABETH; 2 corner commercial wood and glass double-door entrances; 2 fire escapes with scrolled iron balconies; recessed brick and stone panels between windows on the fifth floor; stone sill courses on the third, fourth and fifth levels.

Hoboken, NJ

2023.011

John Amato

Donation

circa 1930 - circa 1970

Inscription

Back of print

245 Garden St Hoboken

Handwritten

10 in

8 in

B&W photo of mixed-use apartment building at 245 Garden Street, Hoboken. picture number 1
B&W photo of mixed-use apartment building at 245 Garden Street, Hoboken. picture number 2