Winsor Building
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The Winsor Building is located at 400–420 Main Street in the city Asbury Park in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1904, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 13, 1979, for its significance in architecture, community planning and development. The original Winsor Building, built in 1904, had a frontage of 67 feet on Main Street and 123 feet on Bangs Avenue. It is a two-story structure made of orange brick and galvanized iron. On the first floor, there are nine stores fitted with show windows. Three stores face main street, alongside a tunnel driveway to the rear while the remaining six stores face Bangs Avenue. The second floor comprises 8 apartments, featuring bay windows. An additional 66' of similar store fronts and apartments were added some time after 1911, making the total length of the building along Main Street 133 feet. This addition consisted of four first floor stores and four second floor apartments and, except for one minor element mentioned elsewhere, is most difficult to tell apart from the original 1904 structure. Bangs Avenue - 1904 section: The bottom floor of the building consists of three double sectioned large high windowed bays with common recessed entrance foyers leading either into a shop or to a stairway to the second story apartments. Each double section is separate from the other by a plain brick column. A cast iron Corinthian column is centrally located in each common entrance. Hardware items such as hinges, mail slots, door bells, speaking tubes and awning brackets are present. A bracketed sheet metal entablature separates the first and second story and is repeated at the cornice with a band of dentils below the .a The nine second story brick columns rising from the entablature are separated equally by eight sheet metal four windowed bays with wooden panels below the windows. A semi-circular brick arch caps each of the eight bays. A similar façade pattern is repeated along Main Street except that 8 bay windows are present with an additional two windows in a small bay. This two window bay is assumed to be located over the 1904 tunnel entrance to the rear courtyard. The latter addition (north of the tunnel) consists of 4 second story bays. This section has no cast iron columns in the first story recessed store entrances but each entrance floor is decorated with an inlaid pattern weave of white tile with a green border. Similar hardware items, such as those mentioned before, are present. Recessed wooden panels and transoms are located in logical sequence throughout the entire façade. Some of the capitals are missing on the second story Bangs Avenue side and have been covered with flat metal sheeting.
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When was Winsor Building listed on the National Register?
Winsor Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 12, 1979.
What type of historic resource is Winsor Building?
Winsor Building is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.
What is the period of significance for Winsor Building?
The period of significance for Winsor Building is recorded as the industrial era.
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