The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-09-14
AN ANDMARK
The Tice Homestead Over a
Hundred Years Old, to
be Torn Down.
BUILT IN REVOLUTIONARY TINES
A City Has Grown Around
the Little Place and
Shut It In.

One of the oldest land marks Of the
lower Hudson City section will be done
away with when the Tice estate at the
southeast corner of Newark and Summit
avenues is sold at auction on Wednesday
next The old homestead facing on Sum-
NIT avenue will be torn down to make
way for more modern building
| Hidden behind a high fence and some
what concealed by the foliage of two
| tres the old house is scarcely noticeable
to-day, but it has stood there for over
hundred years while city has grown up
around it. The addition in the shape of
the triangular building erected a few
years ago, and occupied by James E.
Banks as grocery store, has made the
old farm house lose its identity to some
extent.
over century ago. when Newark ave-
nue. was the Philadelphia post road, and
country line dignified by the name of
Bergenwood Road wound its way through
| that portion of the Heights on line with
what is now Summit avenue, the Coulter
farm extended from the triangle formed
by the intersection of the two roads to
what is now Baldwin avenue, where the
Cornelison farm began and continued half
way uOWu the Hlll TO the east.
The little low farm house was then
erected by Jacob Coulter near the apex
of the triangle formed by the junction of
the post road and the Bergenwood Road
This point forms one of the Five Corners
of today. Although additions have been
made to suit the convenience of subse-
quent tenants the main house stands to-
day practically as it did over a century
ago-a one-and-a-half story frame struc-
ture about fifteen feet wide, with an
eight foot front addition for kitchen on
the south side. Modern clap boards have
taken the place of the roughly hewn
shingles that formerly covered the ex-
terror and little porch extends along the
front of the building. The interior has
been remodelled and modernized, but the
general outline of the old farm house is
today as it was in revolutionary days.
Fifty-six years ago what was left of
the Coulter farm extending from where
the Hudson City Savings Bank now
stands to the intersection of what are
now Summit and Newark avenues, and
Including the old farm house passed into
| the hands of John Tice. Five generations
of che Tice family We're reared in the
quaint old dwelling, the last one of the
family, Mrs George Wilson, a daughter
of John Tice, having removed from it
less than three weeks ago.
The old house would have been aban-
doned by the family years ago, but for
| the fact that Mrs. Catherine Tice, Mrs
Wilson'S grandmother, who died last
June at the ripe old age of Sc years and
! six months, had asked them to remain
| there until she died. Mrs. Wilson's father
was 62 years old when he died, and Mrs.
Catherine Sheppard, her maternal grand
| mother, breathed her last in the old home
| stead at the age of 100 years and six
months.
| There are eight heirs to the. .Tice estate
but only four of them-three daughters
and one son--are direct descendants
There are seventeen grand children and
| twelve great grand children, all living
The old house originally faced the post
road, but when Newark avenue developed
| into business street the rear of the
house was made the front and it then
| faced on Summit avenue. 1t is built on
| large rock and considering it's great age
| is in an excellent state of preservation