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St. John's Roman Catholic Church
St. John's Church is one of the oldest Roman Catholic churches in Newark. The front brownstone facade has a tripartite configuration, with a central gabled bay and two flanking towers surmounted by pinnacles. The front is dominated by pointed arches…
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church was part of a complex that included a school and a rectory. The church was designed in a Gothic style by Jeremiah O'Rourke. The front facade displays characteristic Gothic elements such as ogee arches, buttresses, …
St. Lucy's Roman Catholic Church
St. Lucy's Church is located near Branch Brook park, the Colonnade apartments and the now-demolished Columbus Homes. This building completed in 1925 is one of the largest Roman Catholic churches in the archdiocese of Newark and has served the…
St. Mary's Abbey Church
St. Mary's Abbey Church is based on a Roman basilica plan and oriented on an East-West axis. The exterior was built with red brick and it is dominated by long rounded windows. The nave culminates in an apse on the eastern end.
St. Mary's Orphan Asylum
St. Mary's Orphan Asylum was founded in 1857 on Central Avenue next to St. Patrick's Cathedral, by the Bishop Bayley. The building was completed over the next 6 years.
St. Michael's Hospital
St. Michael's Hospital began in 1867 when 5 sisters of the Poor of St. Francis staffed a 13-bed hospital in a residence at 69 Bleeker St. In 1869, the cornerstone was laid for a new building, designed by Jeremiah O'Rourke. The 3-story, 150 bed, red…
St. Patrick's Pro-Cathedral
St. Patrick's Pro Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Newark. It was built in 1846 and from 1853 served as the seat of its prelate bishop until the Sacred Heart Cathedral was built. Designed in the Gothic style, it is, however, missing a…
St. Rocco's Roman Catholic Church
St. Rocco’s Roman Catholic Church is one of three Italian/Mediterranean churches by Newark architect Neil J. Convery; the other two are St. Lucy’s and Sacred Heart. It is one of the few full-domed churches in Newark. Convery's design of…
St. Stephan's United Church of Christ
St Stephan's Church is located in the Ironbound district of Newark. The main facade shares Georgian and Romanesque elements. The main entrance is framed by two diagonal buttresses and surmounted by a prominent rose window. The red brick walls are…
Stanley Theater
The Stanley Theater is located in the Vailsburg section of Newark and was commissioned by the Stanley-Fabian company. Designed by local architect Frank Grad in the "atmospheric" style, this theater is important because it exemplifies a stage of…
State Asylums for the Insane, Essex County Insane Asylum.
Documents of the One Hundred and Seventeenth Legislature of the State of New Jersey.
State Street School
State Street School is one of the oldest public schools in Newark, significant for its leading role in educating African Americans during a period of segregation in education. The principal of this school, James M. Baxter Jr. was the first black…
Sydenham House
The Sydenham House is the oldest house in Newark. Built in 1711, before Newark obtained its city charter, it represents a prototype of an early American homestead. The house has a traditional salt-box style with one side of the gabled roof extending…
Symington House
The Symington house is the third oldest house in Newark. This building is a 3-story brick townhouse originally constructed as a rectory for adjacent Trinity Church, now known as Trinity and St. Philip’s Cathedral. It is the best remaining…
Symphony Hall
The Newark Symphony Hall was designed in an eclectic style, drawing inspiration from ancient Greece, Egypt, and Rome. The Neo-classical street façade presents a simplified plane with Ionic columns arranged in the hexastyle in antis configuration.…
Temple B'Nai Jeshurun
The B'Nai Jeshurum Temple is a school and religious temple before its demolish in May 21, 1911 it was the oldest Jewish congregation in Newark, NJ. The school was located at 783 High Street, Newark, NJ. The school building was about $275,000 to…
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