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Regional Plan Association (RPA) map-Building a Metropolitan Greensward (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut)

Map of Route 78 between Garden State Parkway and McCarter Highway Junctions - the airport section and interchanges.

In 1907, E. Leslie Fletcher established a practice specializing in industrial engineering in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Charles L. Thompson joined Mr. Fletcher in 1909, and on February 5, 1910, the firm incorporated as the Fletcher Thompson…

Volume three: Embracing the section of the city South and East from Penna. R.R. and Market Street to Broad Street, to Poinier Street, to Elizabeth Ave. thence to city line.

Volume two: Embracing the section of the city south of Market Street and South Orange Avenue. The Vailsburg Section and West of Broad Street, Poinier Street and Elizabeth Avenue to City Line.

Volume one: Embracing the section of the city North from Penna. RR. Market Street and S. Orange Avenue to 12th Street to Central Avenue to City Line.

The Robert Treat Hotel is one of the finest examples of Renaissance Revival in Newark. Designed by the architectural firm of Gilbert and Betelle in 1916, the hotel was named after Robert Treat, the founder of Newark. This 14-story building is…

R.H. Ives Gammell was a classical realist artist best known for his sequence of paintings based on the poem "The Hound of Heaven" by Francis Thompson.

Riverbank Park was planned under the the Essex County Park system by the Olmsted Brothers (John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., sons of Frederick Law Olmsted). Influenced by the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893, the city of…

Annual report of the State Board of Education and of the Commisioner of Education of New Jersey with Accompanying Documents. This image is taken from a report of Dr. Guy Payne, the Superintendent of the Essex County Hospital for Insane. The image…

Remains Morris Canal & Plank Rd at Passaic looking SE from Pulaski Sky.

Transportation is the backbone of the region’s economy and essential to the quality of life for all
residents. Yet the region has outgrown an aging transportation system that is increasingly unreliable and unable to respond to changing needs,…

Redwood Hall is a 7 floor, 45,000 square foot residential hall at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Established in 1881 by John Hall Rankin and Thomas M. Kellogg both were MIT students.

The firm was known f its Beaux-Arts style in public buildings. Rankin & Kellogg were often the recipients of large-scale public and commercial commissions.…