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Show JERSEY CITY'S GRAVEYARD OF ARCHITECTURAL FREAKS. Garage and Stables. Ji:RSLl CITY (N J.) has w'.iat the j mhaoStnnts term "a gravcjaul of i rchitectoral nionslrosities "' It is j located in Kensington avenue, iQi . a leidential portion of the city, j overlooking the Hudson County' Park. ' j In an unfinished' state there ib a. corner house of many windows, constructed of white marble and rani:c. built in the! style of the Renaissance, suitable for a (hospital or a iilnaiy. There is no glass in thc windows: the door aie boarded up and thc front steps are detached from the main structure. To the left of the "house of many wlu-j dows" is a noble gateway opening uponj an esplanade with a wide drivcwayi sweeping through. On e'.'.hcr side of the esplanade are wide, comlortable. grauite seats, that appear to have beeu trans-pliutQd trans-pliutQd from an ancient palace of one of J 'the Doges oE Venice. Klslng from the ! centre of the esplanade is the front of the old Uoreel Building, which wjj formerly, 'at No. llo-Broadwjj, New-York. This 'old building has been re-erected to the j height of hut one .story, bringing out, .however, in 'bold relief "iu "old lloniau jdoorway. The foundations "have been l laid for U four sides, and thc girdera arc a "of" $U$Jy aiJJmr:ggg k&S:?f Front of Old Borccl Building, No. 115 Broadway. i .'?". - : - : ' i rr -w- '. . - ? : - r'-?ji 6$:':? ' .jbJ '1 L h-' .: J' -ri French ViHa. French Chalet. I . I iu place. giMUg oue the nnpreasjuL that, the workmen h.ive jubt laid off for lunch and will "-oon resume v-oru. The sidejvalk is composed of thirteen flagstones that were also a part of the ohl Borccl Building. These flag-, lire! each & by IS feet .indJli inches thick, and' ench weighs about eight tons. Scattered J about the grounds and used as a coping are sonic of the largest foundation stones' cer brought 10 tlifo couutry. Thpe, stones are fourteen' feet long, and werj imported from Scotland nd used in th building of the old Washington Market iu New ioik city. ' Looming up as ghosts of a forgotten generation are a French chalet, with b.il-J cony and dormer wjudows, and a Krench villa, built a,oii3-JA,.,a,,!j'': 1Jnes, with ca-' thudra.1 wlndow!s.'aiiH dormer roof. These! two structures are", of frame, but me te- cdrely anchored ?o hIone foundations-which foundations-which would supt u ten or a twelve' itory .steel fr.-inie-o,?3" building, j In the renr of.tnplot is a building wltli. a Vide doorway, constructed in the pure Iloidau style. This may have been in-, tended for a garase or btables, but like' all the other building it remains uuoq-j uipled. waiting for the guiding hand of -ucbitcct or builder to bring order out pi' Huios. The owner of this ijlot of ground and' these fantastic structures is Mr. .Thomas Hill, of Jeicy City. Mr. Hill ia a wage-it builder by trade, and it is taid has made a million dollars or more out of .the patent dump carts that are in use by ihe thou-( tands in thc New York city streetB.'Somej d iimO.igo Mr Hill turned over his patents and his waon business to his bou. aud h.ib silicc demoted his attention to thc 'wiecking ot old buildings. Il.s present hobby is to transplant the stones of thc Hudsou County Court House, I which was built in 1S48 and which he is now demolishing, to his plot overlooking Hudson County Park, and on the founda-itioiii founda-itioiii of the old Boreol Building, with its I Romanesque front, erect an apartment I house wilh no two sides alike. Two white! marble maute's that were once in the homo of the late A. T.. Stewart will compose, the principal decoration of thc foyer of! I this propofed unique npartme-nt house. I "These mantels," said Mr. Hill, "are hand 'carved, of foreign workmanship, and there !atc no better cXninpls of hand caning; on either metal Or stone to be found any-' 'where in the world." The building is to be eight stories ju height, -Mr. Mil nys,j and so arra. .ed that all of thc culinary jUijjHJtjons ,,f the families hv.'ng therein ( will be conducted in thc basement in oncj common kitchen. This, Mr. Hill believes, will'" "w a hap.y solution of the seranl girl problem. . ; Mr. Hill has for a long while been keenly anxious to reside in, one of his 'houses on the hill,- but his-wife will liave none of it. "tfor thirty".: cars." said Mrs. Hill, "I bavo lie.d in my home in .Mercer sfreet, and not for worlds would 1 mote into that place up tnerc." |