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Formerly stood at 65 Avon Avenue.

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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.

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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…

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Now the New Jersey College of Medicine & Dentistry building.

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The now demolished Urban League building was active during the 1940s. Currently, the Essex County administration campus exists on the land where the Urban League building once stood. The building had 4 stories, the first floor devoted to the Urban…

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A facility dedicated to educating the public and collection data on tuberculosis. The Association also trained nurses at the facility. The facility also hosted a day camp for patients to visit. The Association was a voluntary union organization that,…

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A former day camp for tuberculosis patients unable to secure treatment elsewhere. Permission from a city physician was required for admission.

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The Newark Emergency Hospital was organized in 1901.

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Saint Barnabas Hospital was founded by the Episcopal Church. It was a 35 bed facility located at Montgomery and High Streets.

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St. Mary's Orphan Asylum was founded in 1857 on Central Avenue next to St. Patrick's Cathedral, by the Bishop Bayley. The building was completed over the next 6 years.

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St. Peter's Orphan Asylum was founded to care for children whose fathers died in the Civil War. The institution was originally opened as a small wooden building.

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86-88 Plane Street (today is University Avenue)

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The Detroit Cadillac Motor Car Company building served as an auto showroom where the the sales and servicing of cars took place. The building had three stories. Its facade has a tripartite scheme with a narrow bay in the middle flanked by two large…

229 - 235 Halsey Street

The Lansden Company was an electric vehicle company founded by Thomas Edison in 1904 that manufactured trucks and wagons. These vehicles were powered by Edison engineered batteries. In 1913 the company moved its plant to Allentown, Pennsylvania.

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Baxter Terrace was one of the early public housing complexes developed by the Newark Housing Authority in 1941. It was known as the James M. Baxter Housing Development and named after the first African-American principal in the Newark school system.

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The Brick Towers was a public housing complex that consisted of twin 16-story buildings.

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The Christopher Columbus Homes were a public housing complex located between High Street and Eighth Avenue, on the same superblock as the Colonnade and Pavilion Apartments. The complex, part of a Redevelopment Plan, was composed of eight 13-story…

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Felix Fuld Court consists of eight, 3-story residential buildings, and a ninth building that is a central heating plant.

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