B&W photo of mixed-use apartment buildings at 109-111 Willow Avenue, Hoboken.
Entry/Object ID
2023.011.0014
Description
Children are gathered on the stoop. Ground floor storefront signage reads: JOE MAY 109 FURNITURE BOUGHT & SOLD JOE MAY 109 MOVING & STORAGE; JAY'S RADIO SERVICE. Signage next door on the right reads: T&M CONTRACTING CO., INC. BUILDERS. Circa 1940s-1950s automobiles are parked along the curb.
Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
Gelatin Print - silver chloride
Subject
Mixed-use row house apartment building; rectangular plan; 5 stories; 6 bays except storefronts on ground floor; brick façade; single 1/1 sash windows except entry bay and storefronts; flat roof; bracketed and modillioned cornice; foliated frieze above storefronts; keystone flat arch lintels and stone sills on the third, fourth and fifth floors; central stoop, single-door entrance with scrolled iron handrail; fire escape with iron balconies and convex balusters; sill courses on the second and third floors; pilasters in horizontal patterned brick extend from the second floor into the cornice on the end bays.
