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The Detroit Cadillac Motor Car Company building served as an auto showroom where the the sales and servicing of cars took place. The building had three stories. Its facade has a tripartite scheme with a narrow bay in the middle flanked by two large…

229 - 235 Halsey Street

The Lansden Company was an electric vehicle company founded by Thomas Edison in 1904 that manufactured trucks and wagons. These vehicles were powered by Edison engineered batteries. In 1913 the company moved its plant to Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Baxter Terrace was one of the early public housing complexes developed by the Newark Housing Authority in 1941. It was known as the James M. Baxter Housing Development and named after the first African-American principal in the Newark school system.

The Brick Towers was a public housing complex that consisted of twin 16-story buildings.

The Christopher Columbus Homes were a public housing complex located between High Street and Eighth Avenue, on the same superblock as the Colonnade and Pavilion Apartments. The complex, part of a Redevelopment Plan, was composed of eight 13-story…

Felix Fuld Court consists of eight, 3-story residential buildings, and a ninth building that is a central heating plant.

James C. White Manor is a senior housing development that was constructed in 1976. There are 206 units ranging in size from one bedroom to two bedrooms.

The complex is named after John W Hyatt, a prominent Newark industrialist and inventor of the mid-20th century.

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…

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

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

Seth Boyden Terrace is a public housing project made up of 12 buildings.

St. James Apartments is a high rise building. It has a total of 199 units, 40 of which are Section 8 assisted living units.

A subsidiary of the Consolidated Tractor Company.

Newark Airport, opened in 1928, was the first large commercial airport in the United States, and the first to serve the New York metropolitan area. It was also the busiest airport in the world from 1930-1939. The three buildings recognized by the…

Demolished

Bethany Dispensary (conducted by “The Presbyterian Hospital in the city of Newark, New Jersey”) (org. 1907; Presbyterian Hospital inc. April 7, 1909, which see p. 32), corner of Spruce and Charlton Streets in the Bethany Presbyterian Church. A…

The Bethany Baptist Church is considered one of the most important African American religious institutions in Newark. Located to the west of Newark's Central Business District, the ecclesiastical building was originally constructed for the Fairmount…

The American-Moorish Science Temple was established in Newark, New Jersey, in 1913 by Timothy Drew (1886–1929), known to followers as Noble Drew Ali and also as the Prophet of the sect. Drew Ali taught that all blacks were of Moorish origins but had…