Mrs. A. Arch Tourist Home
Known Name(s)
Mrs. A. Arch Tourist Home
Address
23 Atkins Ave. Asbury Park, NJ
Establishment Type(s)
Tourist Home
Physical Status
Demolished
Description
The large boarding house at 23 Atkins Avenue on Asbury Park’s West Side, was, as was typical for homes in this residential area, a large frame structure. The building was condemned and then demolished in 1969.
Source: Sanborn Map Co., Insurance Maps of New Jersey Coast, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1930), sheet 201; “Condemned House.” Asbury Park Press. 29 February 1969.
Detailed History
23 Atkins Avenue was listed as a tourist home in The Green Book from 1938 through 1940 and 1946 through 1958. It was listed under the name Mrs. A. Arch from 1938 through 1940 and from 1946 to 1947. It was also listed under the name of Alice Arch’s daughter, Annabelle Eaton, a schoolteacher, beginning in 1939; this listing, under the name Anna Eaton, paralleled Mrs. Arch’s, but continued until 1958 (note that, under the name Eaton, the street was misspelled as “Adkins” in 1939 and 1940).
The 1940 census recorded Mrs. Arch as an African-American widow born in South Carolina in about 1878, and her daughter as living at the address as well. Annabelle Eaton died in 1956, and Alice Arch in 1957.
Sources: US census, 1940; Polk’s Asbury Park City Directory, 1940 and 1955; “Eaton,” Asbury Park Press, 14 February 1956; “Mrs. Alice Rebecca Arch, Asbury Park Press, 17 December 1957.
J. Shaffer
