Archive Record
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Metadata
Title |
[House at 482 Edinboro Road] |
Collection Name |
William Hurd Lawrence Family Papers |
Date |
March 1953 |
Description |
This is an individual item contained within archival collection MS256.000, William Hurd Lawrence Family Papers. Original B&W print. View of the house at 482 Edinboro Road, Staten Island. Photograph shows a diagonal view of the front and side of a field stone house with a porch at left, partially visible through the trees. Handwritten inscription in the lower margin: "EAST EXPOSURE." Handwritten inscriptions on the reverse: "March 1953 / Photo showing east Exposure" and "The house at 482 / Edinboro Road." (Keywords: New York City, Twentieth Century) |
Biography and History |
In the 1920s and 1930s, George C. Anderson 1st, his wife Violet, and their sons Edward, George 2nd, and Arthur lived in this house in the Lighthouse Hill neighborhood of Staten Island. Arthur became a noted radio and stage actor. In a reminiscence written in 1999, he described the family's home: "I lived with my father, mother and two brothers in a stone house, the last one on Edinboro Road before the Latourette Golf Course, on what was then called Richmond Hill...Between our house, at the corner of Warwick Avenue (now Rigby), and the golf course were only hay fields, weeds and thickets...On the half-mile length of Edinboro Road from its east end at Meisner Avenue there were then only ten houses, built at irregular intervals and separated by woods..." The artist William Hurd Lawrence lived nearby in the 1930s, and George C. Anderson 2nd married the artist's daughter, Dorothy, around 1963. |
Legal Status |
Items represented here are from the collections of the Staten Island Historical Society. Materials reproduced for personal non-commercial use must credit the Staten Island Historical Society. Commercial licensing is available. |
Physical Extent |
3.5" H x 5.125" W |
Acquisition |
Gift of David W. Anderson |
Catalog Number |
16.013.0004 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Archival Description Level |
Item |
Parent Record |
MS256.000 |
Subjects |
Houses |
Earliest Date |
1953 |
Latest Date |
1953 |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Anderson, George C. 2nd Anderson, George C. 1st |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by Barbara Newington, May 2018. |