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Historic aerial map of Military Park historic district boundaries. Created by the NJ State Historic Preservation Office. Park of the CFCNJIC map collection, published by the Newark Public Library.

On WPA airport improvements. Runways are graded at a Newark, N.J., airport. Planes land at the Detroit City Airport. A plane is turned on a turntable at Floyd Bennett Field, New York City. Runways are graded at a Jacksonville, Fla., airport. Ditches…

The theater was known as the American Music Hall when it opened in 1908. With new ownership in 1915, came the new name the Lyric Theatre.

Demolished

A movie theater constructed in the 1930s. By the late 1950s, the theater went by the name, the “Luxor Follies” and showed obscene movies. Eventually police and legal pressure forced the theater closed in the early 1960s and it was soon after…

The Lutheran Hospital was a general, independent, hospital that admitted patients of all faiths. The hospital did not admit tubercular patients. The facility’s capacity was 76 patients, with sixteen private rooms and sixty ward beds. The facility…

A map of Newark produced by the Louis Schlesinger, Inc., a real estate company, in 1935.

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.

An elderly care home for aging Catholics. Admission was restricted to anyone over the age of 60. The Little Sisters Home charged no admission fee. The facility held up to 230 people.

Lincoln Park Historic District covers 10 blocks and is bound by Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd (High St.), W. Kinney St., McCarter Highway, South St., Pennsylvania Ave., Lincoln Park, and Clinton Ave. The district consists of two parks, three landmark…

Formerly stood at 65 Avon Avenue.

Formerly stood at 115 Market Street.