Print Shop
Date: 1860
Origin: c. 1860 - 1910 unknown, c. 1910 - 1961 south side of Amboy Road: 4560/4550 Amboy Road
Builder: Unknown
Original owner: Unknown, 1920/1930 Mr. & Mrs. Johnson
NYC Landmark Designation: 1969
Experience the Print Shop: While this one-room building is rarely open to the public, if you look in the window you will see a rare original 1808/1820 printing press and a parlor stove from 1880.
HISTORY
The Eltingville Store, once located on Amboy Road in Eltingville, is now presented as the Print Shop in its location on Court Place at Historic Richmond Town. It is a small one-room, one-story wood frame building with board-and-batten siding and a wood shingle roof.
It is thought that the Eltingville Store was built ca. 1860, but the original location and owner are not documented. It was located on Amboy Road in Eltingville by at least 1910, when it appeared in the Sanborn Atlas. It was enlarged and converted to a residence by Mr. and Mrs. Eusebia Johnson, who resided there from 1920 to 1930. The building may at one time have served as a grocery store, as the word "Groceries," very faded, was painted on the front of the structure when it first came to the attention of SIHS.
The building was moved to Historic Richmond Town in 1961. It was first furnished as a grocery store, and since ca. 1967 it has been presented as a job printing shop. It displays a rare early printing press, one of the treasures of Historic Richmond Town's artifact collection. The building was designated an official New York City landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1969.