Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
[Third County Courthouse and jail] |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Date |
1936 |
Collection |
Staten Island Geographic Collection |
Description |
B&W print (possibly a later copy print). View of the Third County Courthouse in Richmond (Richmondtown), Staten Island. The building is seen from diagonally across Center Street, with a concrete roadway and parked cars in foreground and the jail building partially visible at right. Trees in bloom appear at left, with a house barely visible behind them. A number appears on the image at lower left: "360512". (Keywords: Automobile, HRT, New York City, Twentieth Century) |
Print size |
8 x 10 |
Ownership and History |
This view shows the Third County Courthouse nearly a century after it was built in 1837. No longer in use by the courts, the building underwent renovations in the early 1930s. During the 1930s and 1940s, it housed a variety of community service agencies. It was turned over to the care of the Staten Island Historical Society in 1948 and became Historic Richmond Town's Visitor Center. |
Earliest Date |
1936 |
Latest Date |
1936 |
Subjects |
Automobiles County government Courthouses |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Catalog Number |
PH01.0487 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, March 2015. |
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. |