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A sepia photograph ca. 1908 of the Merry-Go-Round pavilion at Highland Beach — a square wooden hip-roofed building with MERRY GO-ROUND painted across its facade, a RESTAURANT sign at left, ornamental hedges in the foreground

The Merry-Go-Round pavilion and restaurant, ca. 1908

ca. 1908

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

The Merry-Go-Round pavilion at Highland Beach, ca. 1908 — a square wooden building with a low hip roof and dormer windows, painted MERRY GO-ROUND in tall letters across its facade. A smaller RESTAURANT sign hangs from a pole at left. The carousel was one of the Sandlass property's most-photographed features across the resort's Golden Age — cited in period Register society columns as a Sunday afternoon fixture — and it sat inside the building visible here. Landscaped hedges frame the foreground; an early automobile is parked at the entrance.

Item record

Title
The Merry-Go-Round pavilion and restaurant, ca. 1908
Date
ca. 1908
Source
Sandlass Family Collection · via ATH archive
Contributor
Sandlass Family Collection
Rights
Sandlass Family Collection — permission granted for ATH publication
Slug
hb-family-img-9290

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The Merry-Go-Round pavilion and restaurant, ca. 1908 (ca. 1908). Sandlass Family Collection · via ATH archive The Highlands History Project, https://history.abovethehook.com/archive/hb-family-img-9290/.