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B&W photo of mixed-use apartment building at 555 Ocean Avenue, Jersey City.

Photograph
A horse-drawn cart is parked at the corner. Storefront signage reads: GIG'S; MAGAZINES 5¢. Street signs read: ONE WAY; WILKINSON AVE; OCEAN AVE. A real estate sign on the fire escape reads: FOR SALE C.B. SNYDER. The street is a brick road with trolley tracks. Circa 1930s automobiles are parked along the curb.

2023.011.0818

Gelatin Print - silver bromide

Mixed-use apartment building; corner lot; rectangular plan; 3 stories; 3 bays on front façade and 7 bays on side façade except storefronts on ground floor; brick façade with rotated brick panels and horizontal bands; 1/1 sash windows; 2 oriels on the second and third floors with panels and pediments; flat roof; bracketed and denticulated cornice; paneled frieze; molded denticulated cornice above storefronts; flat arch lintels and stone sills; offset wood and glass double-door door entrance with keystone surround; brick quoining on second and third floors; fire escapes; chimneys.

Jersey City, NJ

2023.011

John Amato

Donation

circa 1930 - circa 1970

Inscription

Back of print

498 Ocean Ave, Jersey City, NJ NKM

Handwritten

10 in

8 in

B&W photo of mixed-use apartment building at 555 Ocean Avenue, Jersey City. picture number 1
B&W photo of mixed-use apartment building at 555 Ocean Avenue, Jersey City. picture number 2