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 postcard circa 1960s

 Ridgefield Park, New Jersey
100 Route 46

 

What I usually call the Ranch-type Gate Lodge was described in Architectural Record as "a point of advertising reflecting the Johnson philosophy of trying to relate the gate lodge to the restaurant by means of similar roofs and cupolas on both."

Careful studies were completed to best devise room and property layout for the Ridgefield Park site--it is amazing to read about how much time, effort, and thought went into the planning!

Alas this exceptionally innovative circa 1957 complex likely no longer exists as its address and telephone number are registered to a Hampton Inn (2004).
 
 
 

From Architectural Record: Design for a Franchise Chain, April, 1958 page 205-208

 Above is the Ranch-type Gate Lodge's interior at Ridgfield Park
 

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