Broad St looking n from First Baptist Peddie Mem. Church. Lauter Pianos, people standing, fire hydrant, taxi, vincove, restaurant, liquor store, traffic light.
Trolleys travel along the street, a horse and wagon travel along side them. The Hahne department store is to the left, Trinity Episcopal church on the right.
Military Park bordered by Broad Street and Park Place. Automobiles are replacing carriages and wagons. The number of pedestrians and Trolly cars are arriving in Newark more frequently to visit stores. Nearly every store has an awning sheltering parts…
Branch Brook Park opened in 1895 as the nation's first county park for public use under the newly formed Essex County Park Commission. Its layout is based on plans conceived in a report from the firm of Olmsted, Vaux and Company in 1867 (document…
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…
Beth Israel was started by the Daughters of Israel Hospital Association in 1900, and two years later Beth Israel Hospital was chartered. They began in a residence on West Kinney St. and High St. (now Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.). In 1928, they…
The Belleville Avenue Congregational Church, located in the Mount Pleasant area north of the Central Business District, was built in 1874. The building epitomizes High Victorian Gothic architecture in Newark through the use of such features as…
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.