Tour Point C (no. 9-14) W. Corner of Bellevue Avenue & N. Egg Harbor Road
Tour Point C
W. Corner of Bellevue Avenue & N. Egg Harbor Road
9. Hammonton Trust Company
104 Bellevue Avenue
ca. 1915. Two-story Neo-Classical style bank is three bays wide and four bays deep. The façade (west elevation) features two, 1-story tall fluted columns placed in the recessed entrance; they support a three-part window (metal, modern) on the second floor. The center entrance is flanked by two tall windows; all appear to date to the mid-late 20th century. The Hammonton Trust Company was organized in 1908 at 104 Bellevue Avenue with A. J. Rider as president.
10. Rubba Furniture Store
106 Bellevue Avenue
ca. 1896 – 1903. It was built as a twin of the Hammonton Trust Company building. The painted metal cornice—one of the most decorative in town—has brackets, small rosettes, and half circle modillions and is capped on either end with large metal brackets, all original.
11. Woolley Building
110-108 Bellevue Avenue
ca. 1900. This is a three-story, buff-colored brick commercial building in the Neo-Classical style. It has a parapet roof with an elaborate, flat jig-saw cut scroll design in the center, all original. An earlier 3-story building at this site, also owned by Elliot J. Woolley (a storekeeper from Vermont), burned in the late 1890s and was replaced with this handsome structure. The top floor is a large hall used historically for meetings.
12. J. J. Newberry Building
114 Bellevue Avenue
ca. 1900. Two-story, flat roofed, painted brick commercial building with 1 store front. This storefront dates to 1940, when the five-and-dime store of J. J. Newberry renovated this building and occupied both 114 and 116 Bellevue Avenue. There is an original metal cornice with modillions along the façade (west elevation); underneath is an original row of corbelled bricks.
13. Black’s General Store
116-124 Bellevue Avenue
ca. 1900. Two-story, flat roofed, painted brick commercial building. The corrugated and diamond-patterned metal storefront of #124 is a well-preserved example from a mid-20th century remodeling. The façade (west elevation) roofline features an original molded metal cornice with decorative modillions and crown molding. William Black was a wealthy Hammonton resident and business/real estate owner who lived on Bellevue Avenue.
14. Former Post Office
126-128 Bellevue Avenue
ca. 1916. First seen on the 1923 Sanborn map where it housed the post office on the corner and two stores on Second Street. According to the Hammonton News on March 29, 1929: the building was erected to house the post office in 1916, which 10 years later moved to Vine Street. It was owned by William L. Black and was sold by him in 1929 to James Rubert Jr. for $50,000. At that time, the back part of the building (erected in 1915) was occupied by the Black Implement Company.
