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Amboy Road & Great Kills Road, Staten Island

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  • Richmond: Amboy Road - Great Kills Road, 1930

    Richmond: Amboy Road - Great Kills Road

    1930

  • Richmond: Amboy Road - Great Kills Road, 1932

    Richmond: Amboy Road - Great Kills Road

    1932

  • Richmond: Amboy Road - Great Kills Road, 1932

    Richmond: Amboy Road - Great Kills Road

    1932

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  • Amboy Road & Giffords Lane, Staten Island (2 photos)

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Richmond: Amboy Road - Great Kills Road, 1930

Photo 1 of 3 at Amboy Road & Great Kills Road, Staten Island

Richmond: Amboy Road - Great Kills Road

1930

3879 Amboy Road, north side, between Great Kills Road and Giffords Lane, showing "Romeo's Famous Old Gifford Inn." It was formerly known as the Wedemeyer Hotel (1917) and prior to that, the "Old Gifford Inn" (1907). In 1898 it was the home of J.W. Hetherington. Beers' 1874 map refers to it as the Gifford House, then occupied by G. Kent. May 6, 1930. P. L. Sperr.

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