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Constructed in 1892 to house the William V. Snyder Company Dry Goods Store, the building was converted to McCrory's five and dime department store in the 1940s. McCrory's modernized the structure’s facade to the Art Moderne style as well as…

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The Woolworth building has an L-shaped plan with two principal facades, one on Market St. and one on Broad St.

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Elvings Metropolitan Theatre was Newark's only Yiddish theater, which was built and operated by Bernard and Israel Elving.

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Formerly stood at 252 South Orange Avenue.

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Formerly stood at 115 Market Street.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Beth Israel was started by the Daughters of Israel Hospital Association in 1900, and two years later Beth Israel Hospital was chartered. They began in a residence on West Kinney St. and High St. (now Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.). In 1928, they…

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The building is currently used by the Holiness Pentecostal Church of Christ.

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A Christian Home for homeless white men. The Home conducted religious services nightly, but attendance was not compulsory. Men were compelled to work for their lodgings and good. The Home had a capacity of 95 beds. The house owned a burying plot and…

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An orphanage for the support, education, and training of Hebrew orphans and half-orphans of both genders ages six to 15. The Home’s capacity was 80 children and was supported by voluntary contributions.

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The Job Haines Home for Aged People was constructed in 1903 by Frank Haines. Haines named the center in honor of his father, Job Haines. The Home was organized in conjunction with the First Church of Newark. The Home still operates today.

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The Krueger Pioneer Home was organized in 1889 with the mission to provide a homing for unfortunate and indigent men of German descent over the age of 65. Judge Gottfried Krueger, a wealthy citizen of Essex county, funded its construction. The…

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