B&W photo of mixed-use apartment buildings at 700-702 Willow Avenue, Hoboken.
Entry/Object ID
2023.011.0012
Description
A customer enters a store. Ground floor storefront window signage reads : CLEANING PRESSING REPAIRING WILLOW CLEANING DYEING TAILORING; NEW DEAL HEATING; NEW DEAL PLUMBING. Posted signage reads: SOLD C.B. SNYDER; FLAT. A bus stop sign is on the corner. Circa 1930s automobiles are parked along the curb.
Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
Gelatin Print - silver bromide
Subject
700 Willow: Mixed-use row house apartment building; corner lot; attached on one side; rectangular plan; 4 stories; 4 bays except 2 bays on side and storefronts on ground floor; brick façade; single 2/2 sash windows except entry bays and storefront; flat roof; bracketed and modillioned cornice with raised panel frieze; shed roof over the storefront with bracketed cornice supported with column; keystone window heads and stone sills; offset wood and glass double-door commercial entrance with transom window, 1 offset residential and 2 side commercial single-door entrances.
702 Willow: Row house apartment building; rectangular plan; 4 stories plus raised basement; 3 bays; brick façade; single 1/1 sash windows except entry bay; flat roof; bracketed and modillioned cornice with pediment anchored by spherical finials; stone window heads and sills; central stoop, wood and glass single-door entrance with with transom and scrolled iron handrails, newel posts and railings; recessed brick panels below sills on first, third and fourth floors; stone string courses and sill courses on the first, second and third stories; stone water table.
