Price: $1,250.00
SKU: 97492
PUBLISHER: Published by Long Beach Estates, William Reynolds President.
MEDIUM: Multi-stone lithograph,
DATE: 1909.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 15 5/8 x 40" (39.8 x 102 cm).
DESCRIPTION: A large and quite scarce real estate promotional map of Long Beach, New York. This map covers an area from Grand Boulevard to Golden Gate Boulevard todays Maple Boulevard. The design for the area from Roosevelt to Maple Boulevards is different from what was actually built. The map shows a beautiful tree lined Park Avenue, a proposed trolley line running up and down both Park Ave. and Broadway. Shore Road is named Front Street on the map The boardwalk is shown running the length of the ocean front and a proposed Rainer Pear is shown at the end of Roosevelt Blvd.<br><br> Williams Reynolds was a prominent land developer in Brooklyn and Queens. In 1906 he and a group of bankers formed the Long Beach Estates with the idea of buying up the land. In 1907 he purchased the Long Beach Hotel which at the time was billed as the largest hotel in the world, within two months the hotel burned to the ground. Afterwards he and his partners proceeded to purchase the rest of the island from the town of Hempstead and so began todays Long Beach Island.<br><br> Map is printed by C.S. Hammond & Co. 142 Fulton St. NY. A very unusual and quite handsome map. No other examples located.
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CONDITION: Very good condition and color.
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