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20th Century (1900-1999)

USS Ling

May 15, 2022 by

USS Ling

  The USS Ling is a U.S. Navy Balao class submarine and one of five built near the end of World War II still surviving. Launched in 1943 from the Cramp Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia, it came into service in 1945. With the end of World War II, it was decommissioned a few months later ... » Learn More about USS Ling

Roebling Prestretcher Equipment & Buildings (Buildings 92 & 93)

May 15, 2022 by

Roebling Prestretcher Equipment

  The Roebling wire rope prestretcher and its buildings are the last remaining industrial structures from the John A. Roebling’s Sons steel and wire mill, which operated in Roebling, NJ from 1905 to 1974. The company pioneered suspension bridge construction, as the builder of the Brooklyn ... » Learn More about Roebling Prestretcher Equipment & Buildings (Buildings 92 & 93)

Caldwell Public Library

May 15, 2022 by

Caldwell Public Library

  The Caldwell Public Library is a 1917 Classical Revival Carnegie library, designed by architect and Caldwell resident Lynn Grover Lockward. It is one of four Carnegie libraries in Essex County still in its original building. Industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie funded 2,509 ... » Learn More about Caldwell Public Library

Anchor Café

May 15, 2022 by

Anchor Café

  The Anchor Café is a 3-story brick and terra cotta structure with a steep slate roof and dormers built in 1905. A round tower with a conical roof gives it a commanding presence on the streetscape. The building is dripping with architectural terra cotta in the form of keystones, brackets, ... » Learn More about Anchor Café

Ben and Bernarda Shahn House & Studio

May 15, 2021 by

Ben and Bernarda Shahn House & Studio

  The Ben and Bernarda Shahn House was constructed in 1936 as part of Jersey Homesteads (later renamed Roosevelt), a New Deal project established in response to the Great Depression as an agricultural-industrial cooperative community for Jewish garment workers and farmers. Architect ... » Learn More about Ben and Bernarda Shahn House & Studio

St. Monica’s Episcopal Church (now Greater is He Ministries)

May 15, 2021 by

St. Monica’s Episcopal Church (now Greater is He Ministries)

  St. Monica’s Episcopal Church lies in the very center of the Spring Street neighborhood of Trenton. Spring Street was the center of Trenton’s middle class African-American community during the mid-twentieth century. According to the 2011 publication by Richard Grubb & Associates for ... » Learn More about St. Monica’s Episcopal Church (now Greater is He Ministries)

Futuro Houses

May 14, 2020 by

  The Futuro House was conceived in 1968 as a “portable” ski chalet by Matti Suuronen, a pioneer in the processing of reinforced plastic for construction. Futuro structures are made of fiberglass reinforced plastic as to be light and easy to transport to remote locations, easy to construct ... » Learn More about Futuro Houses

New Jersey’s 1970’s Heritage

May 14, 2020 by

Michael Graves’ Schulman Residence Princeton, NJ 1976; credit Xinai Liang

  While the 1970s may not seem like that long ago, the decade officially reaches the 50-year benchmark as of 2020. This means that sites from the 1970s era are beginning to become eligible for listing in the State and National Registers of Historic Places, as one of the criteria for ... » Learn More about New Jersey’s 1970’s Heritage

Cranford Roundhouse

May 14, 2020 by

  Constructed between 1913 and 1915 by the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Cranford roundhouse is one of three known surviving roundhouses in New Jersey. The other two are located in Hawthorne and Newark. Roundhouses were common during the first half of the twentieth century during ... » Learn More about Cranford Roundhouse

Roosevelt Public School

May 14, 2020 by

  In response to The Great Depression, the Division of Subsistence Homesteads was created in 1933 to promote a “back to land” philosophy that would “relieve industrial workers and struggling farmers from complete dependence on factory or agricultural work”. Under this initiative, ... » Learn More about Roosevelt Public School

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