Covering the arts and historic preservation in Essex County
In January, NJPAC got permission from the Landmarks Commission to demolish the Cathedral House at 24 Rector Street. The building would become the sixth historic building within the Military Park Historic District that the arts organization has torn down. But…
The buildings deemed potentially eligible for the National Register are Rosedale Cemetery, two historic firehouses, Congdon lumber yard, the Montclair Riding Stables, and two unassuming places as well.
The project will not affect service along the line and will last one year, eventually reopening a historic stationhouse that has been closed since 1968.
One neighbor is fighting to save the historic tree and she may have found an unlikely ally in the township's Historic Preservation Commission.
The 1970s was the dawning of the tenants rights movement and there is an old Victorian home in East Orange that became the hub of this activism.
The movie theater industry has found a way to reinvent itself in every generation. Now, theaters are turning to the nonprofit model to once again save local arthouses.
Andrea Van Benschoten’s wish to learn about her family tree brought her to the National Archives where she found a file of great-grandmother with the ominous sounding name—Alien of Enemy Nationality.
Experts make a case for the environmental issues related to building a 496-unit complex in a forest of this size.
The City Council passed a resolution with a 6-1 vote, claiming that Councilwoman Quantavia Hilbert “taunted, yelled, and harassed” a fellow elected official at the May 20 meeting.
The Maplewood Theater has always found a way to survive when so many small town movie houses. Now, the future is uncertain.