B&W photo of apartment building at 817 Washington Street, Hoboken.
Entry/Object ID
2023.011.0009
Description
A political poster in a second floor window reads: PROGRESS NOT PROM[ISES], RE-ELECT MAYOR GROGAN, BORRONE, MONGIELLO, DE PASCALE, MRS. TURSO. Advertising signage on the fire escape reads: Another ELECTRICAL CONTRACT BY V. FONTANA & SONS HO 3 5111. Real estate signage on the second floor of the building on the left reads: FOR SALE TAMARIN [??] NEWARK STREET HOBOKEN, N.J. HOBOKEN 3-5288. The frieze above the entrance to the building on the right reads: JOSEPHINE. Circa 1950s automobiles are parked head-first along the curb.
Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
Gelatin Print - silver bromide
Subject
Row house apartment building; rectangular plan; 4 stories plus raised basement; 4 bays except 5 bays on first floor; brick façade except stone on first floor; 1/1 sash windows per bay except arched stone entry bay; flat roof; bracketed and modillioned cornice with raised panel frieze; hooded window heads and stone sills except stone window frames on first floor; central stoop, arched wood and glass double-door entrance with ornate iron handrails, newel posts, railings, and gates; fire escape with scrolled iron balconies; 3 sets of raised brick string courses and 1 patterned or rotated brick sill courses except on first floor; 2 corbelled brick pilasters with raised and recessed designs frame the 2 central bays, extend from the second to the fourth floor, and are joined on top by a corbelled brick cornice.
