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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S8H_the-19th-century-italianate-town-house_Newark-NJ.html
The Italianate Style Town HouseThe Polhemus House was a typical example of an Italianate town house, an urban residential building type popular between 1840 and 1870. The Italianate style is a characteristic by elaborate bold projecting exterior o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S7T_newark-washington-park-in-the-19th-century_Newark-NJ.html
OverviewThis land on which the Polhemus House was located (and where the Museum is now) is part of the James Street Commons Historic District, listed in the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places and geographically defined by Washing…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S6N_perfect-vehicles-1988-90_Newark-NJ.html
Allan McCullum, Born 1944, Los Angeles, Lives and works in New York
McCollum began making his Perfect Vehicles series in 1985, representing an iconic sculptural form in order to investigate the ways in which a single object can contain cultural…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S67_historic-site-grace-church_Newark-NJ.html
Newark's second oldest Episcopal parish was founded in 1837. The architect of the present brown freestone building, completed in 1848, was the famed Richard Upjohn, a master of English Gothic style. In 1882 Samuel A. Ward, a choir-master here, com…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S66_newark-female-charitable-society_Newark-NJ.html
Founded in 1803, the Newark Charitable Society (now called the Newark Day Center) is one of the oldest social service agencies in the United States. After a plea from the pulpit of Old First Presbyterian Church, "Your neighbor is suffering, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BWF_karr-milburn-house_Newark-NJ.html
Built in 1893, this house served the Karr and Milburn families for more than 90 years. Lucy Karr Milburn (1895-1998), was a lifelong champion of human rights, a high school teacher, and a poet. Before World War I she marched for women's suffrage w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BV8_william-hayes-ward-home_Newark-NJ.html
This house, built in 1875, was the home of the Rev William Hayes Ward (1835-1916) from 1875 until 1914. A leading neo-abolitionist and Congregationalist clergyman, Ward joined the staff of The Independent (New York, NY), an abolitionist newspaper,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZKC_branch-brook-park_Newark-NJ.html
In October of 1867, the firm of Olmsted & Vaux selected this site for our great park.It took almost 30 years topass the correct legislation,and in 1895, Branch Brook Park was built.We are so grateful to the visionaries whounderstood the need for o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZA1_stephen-n-adubato-sr-sports-complex_Newark-NJ.html
The Essex CountyStephen N. Adubato, Sr. Sports Complex
Recognizing the spirit of a 40-year-old organization, The North Ward Center, and the vision of its founder, who built a storefront operation into a community institution.A former public sch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ85_joseph-a-pocchio_Newark-NJ.html
In memory ofEssex County Police Officer Joseph A. Pocchio August 23, 1949 - August 4, 1979Killed in the line of dutysafeguarding the livesof Essex County citizens