A long shingled dance-hall building with a deep colonnaded porch on two sides, a name board reading Basket Pavilion at the centre gable and a sunburst medallion in the gable at right, seen across a sand road with clipped hedges along its front

The Basket Pavilion dance hall, c. 1910

ca. 1910

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

The Basket Pavilion, the resort's dance hall, photographed from the sand road that ran in front of it. A long shingled building with a deep colonnaded porch on two sides, a dormered gable at centre carrying the name board, and a sunburst medallion in the end gable at right. Clipped hedges along the front, the Highlands ridge just visible behind. Gateway NRA Museum Collection catalog #21896; figure 5 of the NPS Highland Beach research paper (McCollough and Rasa, 2005).

Item record

Title: The Basket Pavilion dance hall, c. 1910
Date: ca. 1910
Source: Gateway NRA Museum Collection #21896 · via the NPS Highland Beach research paper, 2005
Contributor: Gateway National Recreation Area Museum Collection
Rights: Public domain — created before 1929 and published without renewal; the National Park Service publishes the Gateway NRA Museum Collection as public domain.
Slug: hb-nps-basket-pavilion-c1910

Verification: unverified.

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The Basket Pavilion dance hall, c. 1910 (ca. 1910). Gateway NRA Museum Collection #21896 · via the NPS Highland Beach research paper, 2005 The Highlands History Project, https://history.abovethehook.com/archive/hb-nps-basket-pavilion-c1910/.