68 Trinity Place

USA / New Jersey / Hoboken / Trinity Place, 68
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6-story office building completed in 1922. Designed by F.P. Platt as a Horn & Hardart Automat. This is a rare surviving example of a building designed to house an automat; its architect was responsible for dozens of now vanished automat buildings. 68 Trinity Place is four stories high on Trinity Place, and six stories on Greenwich, and was the flagship store for Horn & Hardart. It was converted to offices around 1970.

Horn & Hardart was among a number of chains that opened in the city between the 1890s and the First World War. The primary target were the new class of salesgirls, secretaries and typists who needed places to eat lunch quickly and cheaply that were cleaner and more respectable than the lunch counters, greasy spoons and taverns where their male counterparts ate. Horn & Hardart's selling point was its French drip coffee and, of course, its automatic machines.
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Coordinates:   40°42'30"N   74°0'46"W

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  • Would go there fo lunch as late as 1972. Great place . Safe clean good food ,affordable and always fun using the "automat" . Put in you coin, turn the knob , get your food. And fancy coffee dispensers. Wish I could take my kids .
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