Gladstone Cottage
Known Name(s)
Gladstone Cottage
Address
1701 Bangs Asbury Park, NJ
Establishment Type(s)
Cottage
Physical Status
Extant
Description
The house at 1701 Bangs, on the corner of Myrtle Avenue on the West Side, remains today. Listed in The Green Book as in Asbury Park, the address is technically in Neptune Township. The 1930 Sanborn insurance map depicted the house as a two-and-a-half-story frame dwelling fronted by a one-story porch, with a bump out on the east side towards the rear. While it appears that the roofline of the house has been altered and the porch has been enclosed, the house remains today.
SOURCE: Sanborn Map Co., Insurance Maps of New Jersey Coast, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1930), sheet 247.
Detailed History
Gladstone Cottage was listed as a vacation resort in The Green Book from 1949 through 1962. The 1950 Polk’s Asbury Park City Directory named Elcine Brown as at that address, with Gladstone Cottage, noted as offering furnished rooms, and Gladstone Restaurant also listed at 1701 Bangs.
Sources: Sources: Polk’s Asbury Park City Directory, 1950.
J. Shaffer
