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Metadata
Title |
[Box Tree Tea Room at the Billiou-Stillwell-Perine house] |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Date |
ca. 1918-1922 |
Collection |
Staten Island Geographic Collection |
Description |
Original B&W print. Diagonal front and side view of the Billiou-Stillwell-Perine House on Richmond Road in Dongan Hills, Staten Island, as seen from across the street. There are bushes and a picket fence at left, and another house is partially visible at right. A wooden sign is mounted on posts alongside the house: "BOX TREE / TEA ROOM." (Keywords: New York City, Early Twentieth Century, HRT) |
Print size |
3.5 x 4.750 |
Acquisition |
Collection of the Staten Island Historical Society |
Ownership and History |
Built ca. 1663, the Perine House is the oldest building on Staten Island. It stands at 1476 Richmond Road in Dongan Hills and is owned by the Staten Island Historical Society, Historic Richmond Town. The Box Tree Tea Room was operated in the Perine House by Alice Austen and Gertrude Tate in the late 1910s and early 1920s. A 1922 newspaper advertisement stated that the tea room served luncheon, afternoon tea, supper, and special dinners to order. |
Earliest Date |
1918 |
Latest Date |
1922 |
Subjects |
Restaurants Houses |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Austen, E. Alice Tate, Gertrude Amelia |
Catalog Number |
PH01.0165 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by Barbara Newington, February 2018. |
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. |