Friday, January 27, 2012

Station Square Building


I found online this old postcard of Bloomfield Ave (circa 1925) and thought it would be fun to compare then and now. The building with the turret is the Station Square Building in Montclair, standing across the street from the old Lackawanna Terminal building and having once anchored the center of downtown, before more of the action moved west up the hill in the background.
Built in 1892 with Queen Anne and Romanesque elements, the Station Square Building has housed a bank, a convenience store, a hip-hop jewelry store ("Mo' Better Jewelers" - really!), and a café, among other things. A gentleman named Jesse H. Lockwood is credited as the architect.

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