Details
Creator Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer.
Title [Smith's house and Beach House, Sea Girt] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1888
Date September 1888
Physical Description 1 photograph: glass negative; 4 x 5 in.
Description Glass negative showing Smith's house and the Beach House seen from a distance standing on a dune. Grass grows in front of the buildings and trees grow behind. A smaller building stands to the left with empty flagpoles both in front and behind. Robert Stockton bought the land of what would become Sea Girt in 1853. After his death in 1866, developers bought the land and in 1875 the Sea Girt Land and Improvement Company took over Stockton’s old mansion, added wings to either side, and renamed it the Beach House. The Beach House was a popular hotel for many years, reopening in 1920 as Stockton Hotel. It burned down in 1965.
Notes Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris.
Edited.
Subject Stockton, Robert Field, 1795-1866 -- Homes and haunts.
Beach House (Sea Girt, N.J.)
Hotels -- New Jersey -- Sea Girt.
Vacation houses -- New Jersey -- Sea Girt.
Philadelphia artists.
Geographic subject Sea Girt (N.J.)
Genre Glass negatives.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.53.14]
Accession number P.9895.53.14