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Millard E. Terrell Homes is a three-story, 275-apartment public housing structure that opened in 1946 in Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood. The structure was originally named Franklin Delano Roosevelt Homes, but was renamed after its opening for an…

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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…

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Four-story, brick industrial building located at 62-68 Summit Street that was originally the manufacturing headquarters of James Bowers & Company, corset manufacturers. From 1936-2007 it was home to Mueller Bros. Florists. Sometime after 1960, 156…

Formerly located at corner of South Orange Avenue & Munn Avenue.

The factory complex was made up of six major buildings. The first five buildings, a two-story Italianate factory, three Richardsonian Romanesque buildings, and a Victorian firehouse, were built by architect James Lindsay. In 1905, a warehouse…

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…

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New Hope Village is an affordable housing high-rise apartment building.

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The headquarters of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company.

The Bergen Building is one building of the Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) campus in Newark. The building has served as a medical and educational space under several different auspices since its construction in XXX. Originally…

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The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), opened about 10 years after the idea was first introduced by then-Governor Thomas H. Kean. The firms Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and James Stewart Polshek & Partners jointly developed a master plan for…

A subsidiary of the Consolidated Tractor Company.

The now demolished Urban League building was active during the 1940s. Currently, the Essex County administration campus exists on the land where the Urban League building once stood. The building had 4 stories, the first floor devoted to the Urban…

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The building was originally used as the South Baptist Church, but today houses the New Point Baptist Church. It is one of four extant Greek Revival churches in Newark.

A facility dedicated to educating the public and collection data on tuberculosis. The Association also trained nurses at the facility. The facility also hosted a day camp for patients to visit. The Association was a voluntary union organization that,…

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Situated on a confined site to the north edge of the Central Business district, Newark-Broad Street Station exemplifies the architectural eclecticism of the early twentieth century. The construction of the station in 1901-1903 coincided with the…

A former day camp for tuberculosis patients unable to secure treatment elsewhere. Permission from a city physician was required for admission.

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The Newark Emergency Hospital was organized in 1901.

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