Lost Landmarks of Jersey City
Although JC Landmarks applauds and celebrates true heroes and practitioners of historic preservation every May at our Preservation Awards Ceremony, we also take notice of what was lost in the same time frame.
We are not blind to erasure. Quite literally we have handed out awards while nearby bulldozers were busy at work cutting down a century's worth of built heritage.
Sadly, architecturally important structures are often leveled and scooped away from the urban landscape - sometimes overnight or on weekends - by insensitive developers. And most times we are helpless: unlandmarked buildings are permitted to be taken down - or, worse, property owners abuse their resources until they physically collapse.
JC Landmarks tries its best to speak out for the unprotected, the neglected, the sealed-fate edifice. We don't just go on the record as advocates: we photograph, film, send out strongly worded letters, call for press conferences, lobby elected officials, and try to convince developers to do right by architecture.
Here, in this section of our website, are recently lost Jersey City structures of architectural, historical, engineering, social and/or cultural significance.
Schiavone-Bonomo Recycling Company
Address: 1 Jersey Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey
Site Owner: Hugo Neu Schnitzer East (Acquired Schiavone-Bonomo, 1998)
Cornerstone: 1938
Architect(s): Kelly & Gruzen
Style: Industrial Art Deco
Lobby Sculpture: Archimedes Giacomontonio
Demolished: 2010
Site Status: Undeveloped
Salvaged Architectural Elements: Cornerstone, time capsule, plaques and Art Deco features assumed discarded
Above Photo: Leon Yost
Above Photo: Leon Yost
Above & Page Header iPhone Photos: John Gomez