Creator |
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer. |
Contributor |
Yarnall, Hibberd, 1830-1882, architect. |
Title |
Sea Girt Ocean Front [graphic]. |
Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1880-1900 |
Date |
ca. 1880-ca. 1900 |
Physical Description |
1 photograph: glass negative; 6.5 x 8.5 in. |
Description |
Glass negative showing a view of a grouping of large houses, including Morris family home Avocado, Margaret Antoinette Oglesby's
home, and the Beach House, seen from a distance across a field of dune grass. The ocean is visible at the bottom of a steep
dune on the left. A wooden boardwalk runs over the dunes toward a flagpole standing in front of the houses. Elliston Perot
Morris bought property in Sea Girt, N.J. in 1875, where he built the summer home Avocado after designs by Quaker architect
Hibberd Yarnall. Morris left Avocado, named after a Perot family estate in Bermuda, to his daughter Elizabeth Canby Morris
in his will. It was sold in 1947 after her death. By 1958 the house had been demolished. 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. Oglesby’s husband Joseph
built their house in 1887, but died before it was completed. She and her son continued to live in the house until his death
in 1963. The house later burned down.
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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.
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Edited. |
Subject |
Morris family -- Homes and haunts. |
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Oglesby, Margaret Antoinette, 1845-1929 -- Homes and haunts. |
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Stockton, Robert Field, 1795-1866 -- Homes and haunts. |
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Avocado (NJ : Estate) |
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Beach House (Sea Girt, N.J.) |
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Beaches -- New Jersey -- Sea Girt. |
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Hotels -- New Jersey -- Sea Girt. |
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Vacation houses -- New Jersey -- Sea Girt. |
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Philadelphia artists. |
Geographic subject |
Sea Girt (N.J.) |
Genre |
Glass negatives. |
Associated name |
Yarnall, Hibberd, 1830-1882, architect. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.7.9] |
Accession number |
*P.9895.7.9 |