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Hudson, Bergen, Essex, Passaic, Union, N. Middlesex counties; & New York City Topographic Map Series Sheet 26, Original 1880-3 revised 1955

A gymnasium founded upon the German Turner exercise tradition of the mid-19th century that followed German immigrants to the United States. The organization also served as a German cultural center to assist recent German immigrant to Newark. The…

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…

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

This article chronicles the proposal for the development of a mall in the Meadowlands, New Jersey.

Joined by NJ Transit, county, and city dignitaries, Newark Mayor Sharpe James (in the hardhat) cuts the ribbon to ceremonially re-open Mulberry Street on January 4, 2005. After 18 months of construction beneath the closed street, the first rail…

Four-story, brick industrial building located at 62-68 Summit Street that was originally the manufacturing headquarters of James Bowers & Company, corset manufacturers. From 1936-2007 it was home to Mueller Bros. Florists. Sometime after 1960, 156…

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…

The Mosque Theatre opened in Newark in 1925. As part of Salaam Temple, it sat 3,500, contained a spacious orchestra pit, 19 dressing rooms, a property room, a musician's room, and a library. Modern Greek in treatment it was architecturally, " one of…

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…

Veterans of the Armed Forces and New Jersey Transit workers show off Military Park Station's new name on November 11, 2004. The Newark City Subway Station was re-named at a ceremony to avoid confusion with a Broad Street Station being built on its…

The Military Park Commons Historic District takes up about 11 blocks and is roughly bound by Washington Place, McCarter Highway, Halsey Street, and Raymond Blvd. The district is mostly commercial and consists of 69 primary buildings and 9 works of…

Military Park is an obtuse triangular park that takes up 6 acres between Broad Street, Park Place, and Rector Street. It was originally named Middle Commons, and was first laid out by Robert Treat as a training ground, present on the first extant map…