B&W photo of apartment building at 31 Gifford Avenue, Jersey City.
Entry/Object ID
2023.011.0136
Description
A man stands in the basement entrance. An air conditioner is in a third floor window. Windows are open on the fifth floor. A tree is leafless. Circa 1950s automobiles are parked along the curb.
Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
Gelatin Print - silver bromide
Subject
Apartment building; Beaux Arts features; I-shaped plan; 5 stories plus raised basement; 5 bays; brick façade with quoining on 3-bay central pavilion; double and triple 3/1 sash windows except entry bay; flat roof; parapet with central broken pediment and pinnacles; patterned brick frieze; brick lintels, some with keystones, and stone sills; decorative spandrel panels above 3 windows; central steel and glass double-door entrance with transom window, keystone arch surround and 4 fluted pilasters; stone sill course on second floor; stone string course below the parapet.
