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This is a one bay, three story, L-shaped building that takes the form of a minaret. In 1930 the building won a Broad Street Association award for architectural harmony.

The Wiss Company was the Newark based manufacturer of scissors and sheers and a retail jeweler. This was an L-shaped, 10 story building of white stone, terracotta, and pressed metal.

The Central Avenue Building houses the Van Houten Library and the Martin Tuchman School of Management on NJIT's campus.

"Laws Governing the Commitment of Insane Persons to the Essex County Hospital for the Insane" in Newark in the public schools of Newark: A course of study on Newark, its geography, civics and history, with biographical sketches and a reference index…

The Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a leader and example of the Rural Cemetery Movement and Newark's oldest cemetery. The grounds include a variety of significant funerary monuments, including the Cook Tomb. The 1877 entry gates on Broadway were designed…

Hospital world; an international journal published in the interests of hospitals, sanatoria, asylums and public charitable institutions throughout America, Great Britain and her colonies. vol.2, no.4, 1912

The U.S. Post Office and Court House occupies a city block in downtown Newark. The program of the building accommodates two functions: court rooms on the upper floors and post office in the lower floors. The whole complex is five and one half…

This year marks the 80th anniversary of Newark Liberty International Airport. In commemoration of this event, the Newark Public Library is pleased to present EWR Turns 80: A History of Newark Liberty International Airport. This landmark exhibition of…

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…

Paper for Prof. Tony Schuman's Envisioning Newark 679:001 class

Flagship store built in 1912 for the now-defunct department store chain Bamberger's founded by Louis Bamberger as L. Bamberger & Company in 1893.

The Newark Museum was designed by Jarvis Hunt and was opened in 1926. This building project was funded by Louis Bamberger, a museum Trustee.

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. 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, …

This church is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark and the fifth largest cathedral in North America.

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.