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The Post Office is on the corner of Newark and River Streets.
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Post Office,, Hoboken, N.J.
Not posted The Post Office is on the corner of Newark and River Streets. |
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Signs on wall to the left read "JOHN STENECK AND SONSJohn Steneck and sons: John Steneck was listed in the 1880 census, age 34, hotel keeper, wife, Emma age 32, children, John age 3 and Henry age 1 with one servant and two boarders. The 1900 Census shows John Steneck and family on Hudson Street in Hoboken: John born May 1855, Germany, head, age 45, married 24 years, immigrated 1875, banker, his wife Emma, October 1858, "3 children 3 still living", Henry, son, October 1879, bankers boy, Nicholas, son, January 1881, office boy, George October son 1884, office boy, Josephine daughter Nov 1886 and one servant. In 1910 Henry, George and Josephine were still living with their parents and Nicholas, ticket agent steamship co. was listed with his wife, Amelia, and son John Nicolas and one servant. In 1920 John was listed as a bank president and George, banker partnership with father, was still living at home. There were no Stencks listed in Hoboken in the 1930 census. Sometime before 1913 Steneck built a building next to the post office. See postcard below. Keller: I could not find any Kellers in the 1900 or 1910 census who had anything to do with a restaurant. There were a number of Keller families in Hoboken at the time.
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Post Office, Hoboken, N. J.
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Post Office and Steneck Building, Hoboken, N. J.
Posted 1913
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| Postcard collection of Maggie Land Blanck Notice, in addition to the Steneck building taking the place of the two short buildings in the previous photo, there are dormers on the post office building and an extra bay of windows has been added to the first floor. | |
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Hudson Trust Company,
Hoboken, N. J.
No date The Hudson Trust was on the corner of Newark and Hudson Streets. |
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City Hall, Hoboken
Not posted City Hall is on the corner of Newark Avenue and Washington Street. City Hall was completer in 1883 and enlarged in 1910/11. | |
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City Hall, Hoboken
Posted 1913 I assume since port of these post cards are labeled "City Hall, Hoboken, N.J.", that one predates 1910 and that the other is of the renovated City Hall. | |
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St Mary's Hospital No post mark St Mary's Hospital was founded in 1863. This photo taken from the corner of Church Square shows the hospital at 4th and Willow Street.
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St Mary's Hospital, Hoboken, N. J. Posted February 1906
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St Mary's Hospital, Hoboken, N. J. No post mark
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Hoboken Library Posted 1906 The library, build in 1897, is on 5th Street on the north side of Church Square Park.
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Hoboken Library Not posted | |
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High School
Hoboken, N. J.
Not posted The High School was located at Park (formerly Meadow) and 6th Ave. on the North East corner behind the German Evangelical Church which can be seen in the right of the image.
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| Postcard collection of Maggie Land Blanck James Jacob Pierri, a Hoboken native, emailed in May 2008 to say the building was again being used as a school. | |
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High School, Hoboken, N.J.,
Not posted Garden Street and 4th Street circa 1918. |
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Public School No. 5,
Hoboken, N. J. served the 100 block of Willow Street. Public School No. 1, Hoboken, N. J. - the school attended by Meta and Anna Petermann
According to the article in the Smithtown Newspaper, Meta Petermann Land and her sister and friends went to public school No. 1. This school was originally built on land left to the city by Edwin Augustus Stevens. It was a three story brick building heated by a pot belly stove in each classroom and lit by gas light. At times the school was very crowded and space was rented at the German Church on Garden Street below Second Street to accommodate the overflow of students. Sometimes there were as many as a hundred students to one class room. | |
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Public School No. 6, 11th and Willow,
Hoboken, N. J.
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Deutsches Seemannshaus 60-64 Hudson Str,
Hoboken, N. J.
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Deutcher Club, Hoboken, N. J.
Posted 1905 On the Corner of 6th and Hudson. |
| Postcard collection of Maggie Land Blanck The name was changed during the first World War to the Union Club. It was a popular location for dances and political events. Frank Sinatra performed here in 1935 for $40 a week. | |
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Hoboken, N. J.
Posted 1919 US Theatre - Vaudeville Located at 617 Washington Street
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Hook and Ladder Company No 2 Hoboken, N.J. Posted 1912 |
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Hof Brau House, Hoboken, N. J.
The Hof Brau House, know for its find German food, was at the corner of River and Second Streets. The Petermanns lived at one point at 36 2nd Street. | |
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