Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
[Eureka Hotel, South Beach, Staten Island] |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Date |
ca. 1905-1915 |
Collection |
Staten Island Geographic Collection |
Description |
Original B&W print with fabric backing and a paper tab at left (appears to have been part of an album). Front view of a one-story building on the boardwalk at South Beach, Staten Island, with the beach in the foreground. The building's windows are boarded up, and there are ladders and scaffolding in several places. Signs on the building: "BARRY'S / EUREKA HOTEL. / MOVING PICTURES;" "RUBSAM & HORRMANN'S LAGER BEER.;" and "HERE IT IS! / BARRY'S." (Keywords: New York City, Early Twentieth Century) |
Print size |
4.625 x 6.625 |
Acquisition |
Gift of Edwin Skinner |
Ownership and History |
The Eureka Hotel advertised in the New York Times on June 12, 1904: "Eureka Hotel. Chowder Fred's Famous Chowder House. Naphtha launch and boats to let by hour or day. Special inducements to fishing and family parties. Do not leave the beach until you have tried our famous chowder. Rooms to let by day or week." This is one of a group of photographs donated to the Historical Society in 1952 by Edwin H. Skinner, who for many years was manager of the Staten Island Beach Land Improvement Company in South Beach. |
Earliest Date |
1905 |
Latest Date |
1915 |
Subjects |
Beaches Hotels Theaters |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Skinner, Edwin H. |
Catalog Number |
52.012.0041 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, April 2017. |
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. |