The Town Clock
In dire need of a $100,000 restoration.
Friday, September 18, 2020
Clock on the mend. Sept 2020
Tuesday, March 2 ,2021
$100,000 later and a few months in Ohio.....
Garlandhouse
A couple of blocks off of main street you'll fine the bungalow. During the 1950s L. F. Garlandhouse of Topeka Kansas published a working man's house catalog. Plans could be Mail ordered and local builders were eager to erect entire neighborhoods of these modest, modern post war houses. Here are a few examples of these bungalows found along Grape Street - there are two dozen of them. Dozens more can be found while walking through town.
unknown owner
200 Cherry Street
This one and a half storied Bungalow has a front half-hipped roof and side gables. Soon after the fence was erected and signs posted that this lovely single family home was to be demolished, neighbors complained about the lack of lawn care. So every week for the next 6 weeks the grass was cut. That's Hammonton for you.
Mario's Auto Repair
Egg Harbor Road
Moving from it's uptown location, Mario is now established in this nicely renovated one storied block structure.
#44 St. Mark's Episcopal Church (in transition)
300 Peach Street
1887. Remodeled in 1923 and again in 2017. Gothic Revival style church with multiple cross gables.
Single Family House
121 Horton St.
I would guess that this house was built in the late 1860s. It has EVERYTHING that is architecturally interesting.
Single Family Home
219 Pleasant St.
This two-storied single family home is nestled amongst many larger and "grander" structures in this residential section of town. It is both elegant and pratical.
Antiques Off Bellevue
215 Pleasant St.
This once lovely Victorian single family home has, since the later half of 20th century, been converted into several specialized retail shops. Currently it is unoccupied.
#7 Monastra Building
107-111 Bellevue Avenue
ca. 1925-1930 Two Story, three store front, grey brick Neo-Classical style commercial building.
#43 Hammonton's Original High School
382 Vine Street
ca. 1905 This two-story brick school building was constructed in the Romanesque Revival style. While it no longer serves the town as a public high school, it is still utilized as part of the Saint Joseph High School complex.
An Alley Way Add on.
112 Bellevue Avenue
After a serious fire damaged several buildings in the town's central business district, a shift away from wood to stone construction changed the look of the town. Sometime after that, three one-story flat roof buildings were constructed in what appears to be an alley way add - on. Shaggy's Barbershop is one example of this utilitarian design.
#4 West Jersey and Seashore Railroad Train Station
10S. Egg Harbor Road
ca. 1904-1908 This is where it all happened. Hammontown started right here, with the building of the railroad through a forest to the shore. This one story brick railway station is constructed with a shallow pitched hipped roof that forms a small protective canopy. The building is now home to the nearly invisible Chamber of Commerce.
#36 The Scudder House
503 Bellevue Ave
ca. 1907 This is a two and a half storied Prairie style house (American Four Square subtype). The porch is octagonal and was added between 1923 and 1930.
#40 Christian Scientist Church
215 Central Avenue
ca. 1923-1930 The former church is constructed in the Tudor Revival style. It is now a one-story single family home. The front door is original to the building and is flanked by narrow full height side windows.
#14 Former Post Office
126-128 Bellevue Ave
1916. This building housed the Hammonton Post Office until that entity moved to a new location 10 years later. During that period the two storefronts that are located on Second Street were also occupied. A recent moronic renovation to the second story windows diminished, not only their length by a third, it destroyed the unique look of that building.
#10 Rubba Furniture Store
106 Bellevue Ave
ca 1896-1903 This Neo-Classical structure with a highly decorated cornice houses, on it's upper level, several artist's studios.
#8 William Rutherford's Store
127-129 Bellevue Ave
ca. 1880-1885 Two-story front gabled building with two incorporated storefronts.
#11 The Woolley Building
110-108 Bellevue Avenue
Ca. 1900 This three story Neo-Classical style building boasts an elaborate parapet roof with flat jig-saw scroll design in its center. It housed the Improved Order of Redmen and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Two plaques mounted on either side of the front façade identify their local chapter.
Also note the small one-storied structure which border this building. There are only 3 of these "add-on's" in the town.
Unknown
787 Bellevue Avenue
One of the first houses that you see when you turn off the highway onto Bellevue Avenue (which is the main street of town) this single family Spanish influenced home is unique to the area. If it wasn't for the constant clutter this building could be one of the crown jewels of Hammonton.
# 2 C.F. Osgood Shoe Factory/ Calvary Chapel of Hammonton
18 Front Street
ca. 1878 Two-storied wood framed gable front building.
Action Auto
From shoe company to church to an auto body shop in less than 100 years
#17 Cogley's Harness Shop/D.C. Herbert Shoe Store
214 Bellevue Ave.
Ca. 1887 A two-story nearly identically adjoined commercial building with bracketed, molded cornices. It now houses a coffee bar, travel agency, a design company.
Ceramic Tile Garage
505 Middle Road
Builder and date unknown to photographer
#6 Trowbridge Building
101 Bellevue Avenue
ca. 1903-4 This two-story, flat roofed Victorian structure has a parapet roof, projecting cornice and decorative pressed metal panels along both floors of the façade.
#37 Dr. Jacob Waas House
509 Bellevue Avenue
1908-9 Two story Colonial Revival style bungalow with three of its original Palladian windows.
#38 Maurice Conkey House
517 Bellevue Avenue
ca. 1860 and heavily remodeled ca. 1895 and again in 2015 this two and a half story Colonial Revival home still maintains its original Palladian window above its entrance way.
#38 Maurice Conkey House
Finishing touches for Christmas 2016.
#31 Charles Penza House
420 Bellevue Avenue
1939 This 2 and a half storied side gabled Tudor Revival style home is decorated with an ornamental false half-timbered and steeply pitched front gable, stone and stucco exterior and multi-light windows.
#39 Mayor Parisi House
449 Grape Street
ca. 1947 A wonderful example of the truly awful mid-20th century architectural design.
#9 Hammonton Trust Company
104 Bellevue Avenue
ca. 1915 Two story Neo-Classical bank with fluted columns placed in the recessed entrance way.
#34 William and Carrie Black Mansion
Bellevue Avenue
1888 Two and a half Stick Style building restored in the 1990s. Listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places.
#32 William J. and Abbie Smith House
430 Bellevue Avenue
1890 2 story Queen style home
#33 William Black Cottage
This one and a half storied side gabled Folk Victorian home is adorned with Gothic Revival elements; it was remodeled in the mid-twentieth century. In 1888 the structure was moved a short distance to its current location.
#42 Masonic Lodge
201 Central Avenue
This building once served as a Theatre at a WWI munitions plant known as AMATOL. This huge loading facility was located several miles from the Town of Hammonton, just far enough away, should an unexpected "accident" occur. Originally built by the US Government the Theatre was deconstructed and rebuilt at its current location in 1922..
#20 Peoples Bank and Trust Company
220 Bellevue Avenue 1925-26
Classical Revival Style.
President Reagan addressed the towns'people in September of 1984.
It is now home to the Wells Fagro Bank.
#19 Turner's Garage
231-235 Bellevue Avenue at Horton Street
ca.1912 This two story bricked building is decorated in the Colonial Revival style. The windows on both floors are made of pressed metal. It now houses among other business ventures one of the town's two newspapers, The Hammonton Gazette.
#18 Hammonton Fire Company #1 Firehouse
219 Bellevue Avenue
ca. 1928 Now home to the Hammonton Arts Center
#29 Thomas Coggey House
404 Bellevue Avenue
ca. 1885-1895 Queen Anne house. The porch was rebuilt in the 1920s using Tuscan columns.
Unknown
442 Bellevue Avenue Refurbished Victorian 2011-2016
#30 Turner House
408 Bellevue Avenue
Believed to have been moved to its present location sometime between the 1920s and 1930s this 2-storied cross-gabled Folk Victorian house with Italianate details was built ca1880-1890.
# 5 Widow Russo's Building
1 Twelfth Street at Railroad Avenue ca. 1920
# 5 Widow Russo's Building
Another view of:
1 Twelfth Street at Railroad Avenue
#12 J.J. Newberrt Building
114 Bellevue Avenue ca. 1900 The storefront was renovated around 1940. The metal cornice with modillions and the brickwork underneath is original.
#28. First United Methodist Church of Hammonton
398 Bellevue Avenue. 1891 Victorian Gothic
#27 Former Town Hall
1887 This building has served the town of Hammonton first as town hall and then as a county library. In 1959 until 1965 it was a Kindergarten and now finally (one could only hope) it is the home of Hammonton Historical Society's museum. It was moved to this current location in 2007.
#22 Presbyterian Church
326 Bellevue Avenue 1895-96 Victorian Gothic
#50 J.S. Thayer Carpentry Shop
220 Vine Street ca. 1873-1886 This small Gothic Revival style building was moved twice by Elam Stockwell; once in 1887 to an unknown location before being relocated to its current location.
#50. J. S. Thayer Carpentry Shop
220 Vine Street. 2016 Renovations underway.
# 49 Former Post Office
224 Vine Street ca. 1925. It was abandoned in 1937
#1 Eagle Theatre
208 Vine Street
Built in 1914 by Samuel Litke Jr. (1872-1945.)
