Collections Item Detail
Stonework: 4 stones from original portal entrance, Sybil's Cave, Hoboken, no date, ca. 1830s.
Object/Artifact
Four pieces of worked serpentine stone originally part of the exterior portal of Sybil's Cave, Frank Sinatra Drive, Hoboken. Created ca. 1830s.
Point on Sinatra Drive is approximately the point where Eighth St. would meet the Hudson River if it could extend to the shore line of the river.
No knowledge of designer, fabricator or stoneworker is known. Reputedly designed by a member of the Stevens family on whose property the cave site was located; they were the developers of River Walk of which the cave was an attraction. Source where original stone was quarried is not known.
2008.005.0002
2008.005
Staff / Field Collection
Field Collection
Museum Collections.
1832 - 1836
Date: 1832-1836
Fair
Notes: Recovered from site in 2008 when the cave was 'rediscovered' and re-opened by the clearing of debris fill and rockfall that had accumulated since the 1950s. Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2009-04-20
