The First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church is located in a significant urban position, at the intersection Broad Street and Central Avenue and the tip of Military Park. As a result, its presence in this urban scenography contributes to create a…
Alsdorf Pianos & Bicycles was a company located at 605 Broad Street in Newark, NJ. Specializing in Sohmer Pianos, bicycles, and sewing machines, the company also offered bicycle riding lessons on the fourth floor of its building.
The manufacturing facility of John Jeliff, a furniture and cabinet maker, was active from 1836 until at least the 1890s. Jeliff constructed cabinet, and mahogany chairs, sofas, and mattresses. Many New Yorkers purchased his…
One of the three major department stores in Newark around the turn of the 20th century. The store was located between the Morris Canal, now Raymond Blvd., and Cedar Street. The building occupied an entire block. The store was founded by Sebastian…
Constructed in 1892 to house the William V. Snyder Company Dry Goods Store, the building was converted to McCrory's five and dime department store in the 1940s. McCrory's modernized the structure’s facade to the Art Moderne style as well as…
A movie theater constructed in the 1930s. By the late 1950s, the theater went by the name, the “Luxor Follies” and showed obscene movies. Eventually police and legal pressure forced the theater closed in the early 1960s and it was soon after…
The Mosque Theatre opened in Newark in 1925. As part of Salaam Temple, it sat 3,500, contained a spacious orchestra pit, 19 dressing rooms, a property room, a musician's room, and a library. Modern Greek in treatment it was architecturally, " one of…
A gymnasium founded upon the German Turner exercise tradition of the mid-19th century that followed German immigrants to the United States. The organization also served as a German cultural center to assist recent German immigrant to Newark. The…