<p>Wortendyke Barn, at 13 Pascack Road in Park Ridge, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, was built in 1770 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 2, 1972. The historic Dutch barn</p><br>
<p>was restored by Bergen County in 1973. The barn is home to the Wortendyke Barn Museum. The museum contains an exhibit on the development of agriculture in Bergen County.</p><br>
<p>Arneys Mount Friends Meetinghouse and Burial Ground is a historic Quaker meeting house located at the intersection of Mount Holly-Juliustown and Pemberton-Arneys Mount Roads in Arney&#39;s Mount, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1743, Friends living near Shreves Mount (later called Arneys Mount for an early settler, Arney Lippincott) asked the Burlington Monthly Meeting for permission to worship on the first day of each week, during the winter season, at the meeting house near Caleb Shreves Mount. Some years later a meeting house was erected. The builder was Samuel Smith, whose name appears on the stone above the front doorway. As years passed the area changed and attendance at Arneys Mount Meeting declined. The Preparative Meeting, established in 1776, was laid down in 1871. The meeting house continued to be used at times for worship and Firstday school. Since 1941 meeting for worship usually has been held twice monthly.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building is an unusual example of early stone masonry construction in a Friends Meeting House. Built of local bog iron stone quarried from the mount on which it stands, Arney&#39;s Mount is unusual in South Jersey as most meeting houses are constructed of brick. A chunk stove replaces the original "pot-bellied" stove which was stolen several years ago, but it serves to warm the house when winter meetings are held. Horse sheds stood near the south boundary wall, which still holds the iron hitching rings.</p><br>
<p>According to oral tradition, Samuel Smith was the builder. Inscribed in a stone of the meeting house is "S. Smith." It was not uncommon within mainstream culture for the builder to carve his initials upon the structure. Such practices were generally frowned upon by Quakers. It was viewed as vain, and ran contrary to the communal nature of the design and building process. More common among Friends was the practice of carving initials merely as a form of graffiti on the interior benches, and sometimes on the facades of meeting houses, although rarely are they so prominently placed. Members of the Smith family attended Arneys Mount meeting and acted as trustees for the meeting, and therefore could have played an important role in the construction of the meeting house. On the opposite side of the meeting house is the name "I. Coate." This suggests that Smith was not solely responsible for the construction of the meeting house. Perhaps ones role was largely financial while the other served as builder.</p><br>
<p>The interior was twice damaged by fire. Oral tradition and various secondary sources provide the only substantive information. According to one source, the fire took place on February 17, 1800, destroying the roof and much of the woodwork. The floor was supposedly saved by the snow, which was thrown in through the doors and windows. The only piece of information found is a scant reference appearing in a book of "Miscellaneous Accounts, 1797-1882." An entry made on December 28, 1801, reads: "paid Thomas Harrison one Dollar for service done at the time the Mount Meeting House was Burnt."</p><br>
<p>The second fire, in 1809, nearly destroyed the building except for its stone walls. Evidence of the fire can be found in the charred remnants of the former landing, visible beneath the cabinet stairs located in the southeast and southwest corners of the meeting house. The only mention that appears within the preparative minutes are the findings of those requested to "examine the accounts of the committee appointed to rebuild the meeting house." The meeting house is remarkably preserved from its 1811 appearance when portions of the building were reconstructed after the fire. The building was vacant from 1871 until the meeting was revived in 1941.</p><br>
<h2>Burial grounds</h2><br>
<p>The burial grounds are still in use and pre-date the meeting house by many years. Meeting records indicate settlement in the area before the first petition to Burlington Monthly Meeting to build this existing building in 1743. The stone wall, built in 1860, encloses only a portion of the grave as many persons were literally buried "outside the wall" having lost favor with the Meeting, or were buried elsewhere on the grounds in unmarked sites before the walls were constructed.</p><br>
<p>According to the custom of Friends, graves in the earliest period were not marked. Records were kept by row. Later, markers were used, and some bear dates earlier than the formal establishment of the Meeting. In 1870, a wall of native sandstone was erected around the graveyard. Names in the graveyard include those of the early settlers in the area such as "Lamb", "Lappencott", "Shreve", "Gaskill" and &#39;Newbold", and many others important to the heritage of Mount Holly and Pemberton, New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>It is still in use as a meeting house and the burial ground is still receiving requests for interment.</p><br>
<h3>Notable burials</h3><br>
<p>Barclay White, author, cranberry grower, historian and politician</p><br>
<p>Alfred Lacey Hough, Civil War Union colonel and Brigadier General</p><br>
<p>The Cropwell Friends Meeting House is located at 810 Cropwell Road in the Cropwell section of Evesham Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. The historic Quaker meeting house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 14, 1992, for its significance in architecture. It was listed as part of the Historic Resources of Evesham Township, New Jersey, Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>Thomas Evans was one of the first Friends to settle in the Marlton area; in 1701, he signed a deed with Lenape leader King Himolin for a farm in what is now the Marlton area. The property for a school was acquired in 1793 and the meetinghouse constructed in 1809.</p><br>
<p>An active Quaker congregation continues to worship in the building.</p><br>
<p>The Evesham Friends Meeting House, also known as the Mount Laurel Meeting House, is a historic Quaker meeting house located at Moorestown-Mt. Laurel and Hainesport-Mt. Laurel Roads  in the township of Mount Laurel in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 22, 1982, for its significance in architecture, military history, and religion.</p><br>
<p>The meeting house was built in 1760 from local sandstone and expanded in 1798. It is the second oldest extent Quaker meeting house in Burlington County. The original meeting house on the site was built in 1698 behind the current building. A movable partition divides the older, eastern section from the newer section. During the Orthodox-Hicksite split, adherents of the Orthodox view met in the older section, while the Hicksites met in the newer section.</p><br>
<p>Moorestown Friends School and Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker school and meetinghouse on Main Street at Chester Avenue in Moorestown Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. The Friends Meeting hosts Quaker worship every Sunday in the meetinghouse, as well as a variety of events, including Christmas Eve meetings for worship and youth activities.</p><br>
<p>The meetinghouse was built in 1802 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Chee Kung Tong Society Hall was a former Chinese society hall located on 2151 Vineyard Street in Wailuku, Maui. Built to provide services to single immigrant Chinese males, mostly working for the sugarcane plantations, it provided religious and political help, in addition to mutual aid. Converted to a dormitory in the 1920s, it suffered neglect until finally collapsing in 1996. The site now contains remnants of the foundation, assorted cement structures, and a distinct lintel gate and wall facing the street. The site was placed on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places , but delisted from the State register after its collapse; it is still listed in the NRHP database.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It is unclear when the society hall was first built due to conflicting information; County of Maui records indicate that the building was first listed as being built in 1897, though an article from December 1904 by the Maui News lists the building being built and celebrations made upon completion of the society hall on January 14 and 15, 1905.</p><br>
<p>The hall provided a place for Chinese immigrants to visit, socialize (such as playing pai gow), and provide aid.</p><br>
<p>Sometime in 1928, it was noted that the society hall was converted for use as a dormitory by single men, and this use was supposedly practiced up until the 1960s. After the last occupant died, the property was neglected.</p><br>
<h2>Collapse</h2><br>
<p>In September 1988, part of a wall of the building collapsed, smashing adjacent trees, plants, and two clothesline poles in a neighboring property.</p><br>
<p>On April 17, 1996, the derelict wood building collapsed due to damage caused by wood rot, termites, and gravity. Before the collapse, Society Elders had planned to meet to discuss the fate of the building. Certain elements of the building were to have been recovered, and possibly reused in the reconstruction of the building.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The property is 4,544 ft&sup2; according to Maui County tax records via the Department of Finance&#39;s Real Property Division and the NRHP nomination form.</p><br>
<p>The entrance gate comprises two concrete posts and a lintel with Chinese characters on it. Formerly delineated in red, the front facing the street contains incused Chinese characters spelling out Chee Kung Fui Kon (if pronounced in the Hakka dialect; ), and the back containing the phrase (translated as) Everyone is equal.</p><br>
<p>The main building was a rectangular, two-story structure approximately 55 ft by 34 ft, with covered verandas on both floors. Architectural elements included shingled intersecting gabled roofs with gabled ends and fish-scaled shingles painted in various colors. Assorted other details included a scalloped archway, chamfered posts, decorative wheel and quatrefoil brackets, and an entrance gable with a carved bridgeboard. Diamonds and rectangles were also incorporated into the structure via ornamental lintels and balustrades.</p><br>
<p>A trapezoid cinder block structure approximately 19 ft by 32 ft stood next to the building to the east.</p><br>
<h2>Historic listings</h2><br>
<p>The site was placed on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places on July 30, 1982 HAWAI`I AND NATIONAL REGISTER</p><br>
<p>OF HISTORIC PLACES - Maui and the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 1982, but delisted in August 1998 from the State register; it is still listed in the NRHP database.</p><br>
<h2>Current condition</h2><br>
<p>Today, the site consists of only a few cement structures and several trees obscuring the front of the property. The gate and adjoining walls, stairs, sidewalks, foundation pillars, and the cinderblock addition lie in decrepit condition. The phrase Everyone is equal is barely discernible behind the lintel on the gate.</p><br>
<p>As of 2010, a property listing sale noted additional details, including the lack of a water meter and possible building restrictions due to it being under the jurisdiction of a redevelopment authority.</p><br>
<p>Glendale Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church at 615 Haddonfield-Berlin Road , at the junction with White Horse Road , in the Glendale section of Voorhees Township, Camden County, New Jersey, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 4, 1995, for its significance in community planning, development, and education from 1855 to 1920. At the time of its construction, the village of Glendale was impacted by the train station stop of Ashland on the Camden Atlantic Railroad. Because of the railroad, Philadelphians and shore villagers came to trade and do business.</p><br>
<h2>Building design</h2><br>
<p>The Greek Revival church building was constructed in 1855 on a sloped piece of land with a church on the top level and a school on the bottom level. The church entrance, directly facing Haddonfield-Berlin Road, includes a few steps to the door of a small entry to the church. The direct opposite side of the building, at the bottom end of the slope, has an entry to the school.</p><br>
<h2>School history, background, and significance</h2><br>
<p>The Glendale School or Glendale Methodist Sunday School was located in the basement of the church and is considered one of Camden County&#39;s oldest public schools. The school was started by the following Glendale village members: Richard Stafford, Catherine Engle, Nixon Davis, Joseph C. Stafford, Jesse Patterson, Israel Riggins, Montgomery Stafford, and Theodore Bishop. There was a story passed down about the school that one of its founding members, Alexander Cooper, originally built the school in support of the prohibitionist cause, especially because there was a nearby tavern constructed down the street from the church.</p><br>
<h3>Glendale Methodist Episcopal Church during the temperance movement</h3><br>
<p>Many church members were petitioning for acts that represented Alexander Cooper&#39;s supposed act in Congress. The Congressional Record of 1898 documents the Church members of Glendale Methodist Episcopal Church petitioning against the sale and use of liquor in governmental buildings and the negation of anti-cigarette laws.</p><br>
<h3>Walt Whitman’s time at the Glendale Methodist Episcopal Church</h3><br>
<p>It has been documented that Walt Whitman would often come to Glendale Methodist Episcopal Church to spend his weekend in Glendale during the mid to late 1800s. Oftentimes, he would spend his time praying at the church, walking in on classes at the school, or even bathing in the creek in the back of the church. During some of his time there, Walt Whitman even took time to write his novel, Specimen Days.</p><br>
<h2>The 20th and 21st centuries for Glendale Methodist Episcopal Church</h2><br>
<p>By the time 1920 hit, the church and school ceased to operate. The place where the school stood was often used for community functions and events. After a multitude of events that came through the church, it was finally given a grant award of $123875 in 2004, which was used five years later, in 2009, to renovate the church. As of 2022, the church is 167 years old and is used by congregants all around the Camden County area to celebrate Methodist Episcopal holidays and events.</p><br>
<p>The Grant A.M.E. Church was a historic church at 4th and Washington Street in Chesilhurst of Camden County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1896 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 5, 1977, for its significance in religion and social history.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The Grant AME Church is probably the oldest building in Chesilhurst, a predominantly black community. As the town grew, the Grant Church served as the focal point for religious life for local blacks. Named for Bishop Abraham Grant, the Grant AME Church, was conceived by Margaret Wilson, evangelist and member of the Might Women’s Missionary Society in 1896. She was aided by 10 or 12 other citizens of Chesilhurst. Lots were purchased at 4th and Washington, ground was broken, and the cornerstone laid in 1897. Previously, services were held in private homes.</p><br>
<p>The church became a focal point in the community and surrounding areas. In 1936, additions were made to the original structure to meet the requirements of a growing congregation. In 1974, a new church was erected on a site next to the original church. The original church was demolished.</p><br>
<p>Newton Friends&#39; Meetinghouse is the home of an active meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, who meet in a historic Quaker meeting house at 808 Cooper Street in Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1824 as an extremely simple "Quaker clapboard" structure in the typically subdued style of Quaker meeting houses. It was remodeled in 1885 by architect Wilson Eyre Jr. in the sometimes-extravagant Queen Anne Revival style, though this expression of the style is still very subdued. The meetinghouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>Solomon Wesley United Methodist Church is a historic church at 291-B Davistown Road / Asyla Road in the Blackwood section of Gloucester Township, Camden County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1850 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Address change</h2><br>
<p>Blackwood is part of Gloucester Township, Camden County, New Jersey, and the municipality renamed Asyla-Davistown Road as Davistown Road on May 23, 1988, through this Gloucester Township ordinance:</p><br>
<p>Chapter 73. Street Address Numbering</p><br>
<p>§ 73-A. Name Changed</p><br>
<p>Pursuant to, et seq., said street and roadway in the Township of Gloucester, County of Camden, between Erial Road and Black Horse Pike (sometimes known as "Davistown Road" and sometimes known as "Asyla Road") be and is hereby designated and hereinafter known as "Davistown Road".</p><br>
<p>The church address became 844 Davistown Road, Blackwood, New Jersey.</p><br>
<h2>Historical and architectural significance</h2><br>
<p>Afro-Americans in New Jersey: a short history by Giles R. Wright (Trenton, NJ, New Jersey Historical Commission, 1989), discusses the importance of the community of Davistown where the church is situated and a digital edition is available from the NJ State Library as a free download (pdf) -- see link below. Black Heritage Sites. The North, Volume 1 by Nancy C. Curtis also discusses Davistown and the founding of the church. "A History of Davistown and its residents" by Viola M. Johnson, (Davis family Historian) 2009, second edition.</p><br>
<p>The family settlement called Davistown had its roots in a four-acre parcel of land purchased in 1813 by Solomon Davis. This land was purchased from Daniel and Tamzon Bates for the sum of $10.00.</p><br>
<p>Solomon Davis married Reason Valinda (Lindley) Boyer, daughter of Jacob and Jane Boyer and with her fathered eleven children. Between 1820 and 1840 the Davis family purchased much of the land that became Davistown from the heirs of Jacob and Jane Boyer. By 1840 the family settlement had become a small town. In 1842 Gloucester Township surveyed and built a road that is still called the Davistown Road. 1n 1850 Davistown built a church on land purchased from Zachariah and Catherine Davis by Solomon Davis Sr. Noble Davis, and Perry Frisby. (Father, son and son-in-law) In its 162-year history, the Solomon Wesley Church has been both African Methodist Episcopal, and United Methodist.</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s adjacent cemetery has several graves of Davis descendants and descendants of Caleb and Christiana (Murry) Shaw. (Caleb and his children were early members of the church). See the Camden County Historical Society document that lists Solomon Wesley Cemetery, Davistown. Veterans who served in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the American Civil War and veterans from the Spanish–American War, World War I, and World War II are buried in the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The building is also noted for its mid-19th century vernacular architecture.</p><br>
<p>December 5, 1870 the Davistown School for Colored Children was "set off" from Spring Mills. The Davistown school was the only school for colored children in the county and the only two story building in the area.</p><br>
<p>A picture of the Davistown church is one of eight buildings pictured around the seal of Gloucester Township. The church on listed on the state and national register of historic places.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration efforts and change in denomination</h2><br>
<p>A restoration of the church was first started by its then UM members in the 1990s. Work was done on its interior and a plan made for restoration of the exterior.</p><br>
<p>In 2012 Solomon Wesley was sold by the United Methodist Church to Pastor Toki L. Taylor who is a member of the clergy in the Fruit of the Spirit Ministries. As a result, the church was renamed "Fruit of the Spirit Ministries (home of the historic Solomon Wesley United Methodist Church)." Donyale Brown serves as the church administrator.</p><br>
<p>Pastor Taylor, the church elders, and members began fundraising to help restore the church building for use, with support from Gloucester Township, members of the Davistown community, members of the United Methodist Church, among others. A three-day public fundraising event was held August 31 to September 2, 2012 on the church grounds. The church has scheduled November 18, 2012, at 11 a.m., to dedicate the church building, followed by ordination of clergy and installation of church officers at an evening service.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church and Burying Ground is a historic church in Chews Landing, Camden County, New Jersey, United States. The congregation was founded in 1789 and the current church building was designed by George Watson Hewitt and consecrated by the Rt. Rev. John Scarborough on November 9, 1881.</p><br>
<p>The church and burying ground were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>An extant record shows that an organizing meeting was held on November 14, 1789, and St. John&#39;s Church was officially established as part of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America. Available records also include a list of early contributors. A red cedar church was built in August, 1790. Local Revolutionary War hero Aaron Chew raised funds locally and from other soldiers from the war, including George Washington, James Madison, three signers of the Declaration of Independence, Frederick Muhlenberg, the first Speaker of the House of Representatives, a future Director of the USA Mint, several early state governors and USA congressmen.</p><br>
<p>The Calvary Baptist Church is located at the corner of Seaville Road and USA Route 9 in the Ocean View section of Dennis Township in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. The historic church was built in 1855 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 25, 1980, for its significance in architecture.</p><br>
<p>According to the nomination form, it is the oldest Baptist church in the township, and second oldest in the county. It was built in 1855 by the master builder/architect Daniel Hand and features vernacular Greek Revival and Victorian architecture. Hand also designed the New Asbury Methodist Episcopal Meeting House and the Old Cape May County Courthouse Building.</p><br>
<p>The Dennisville Historic District is a 60 acre national historic district in the Dennisville section of Dennis Township in Cape May County, New Jersey. The district is bounded by Petersburg Road, Main Street, Church Road, Hall Avenue, Fidler and Academy Roads, and Route 47. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 24, 1987, for its significance in architecture, industry and maritime history. The district includes 58 contributing buildings. The district boundary was increased in 2016 and now includes the William S. Townsend House, which was previously listed individually.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Dennisville, originally named Dennis Creek, was founded in 1726. The buildings in the district are classified into three periods: 1750–1810, accounting for about 12% of the extent buildings; 1811–1870, accounting for the majority of buildings; and 1871–1899, accounting for about 25% of the buildings.</p><br>
<p>J Johnson 1740 Dennisville HD NJ.JPGJohnson House, c. 1740</p><br>
<p>Crawford 1810 a Dennisville HD NJ.JPGCrawford House, c. 1810</p><br>
<p>Schoolhouse 1874 Dennisville HD NJ.JPGSchoolhouse, 1874</p><br>
<p>H Chester 1898 Dennisville HD NJ.JPGChester House, 1898</p><br>
<h2>Education</h2><br>
<p>As with other parts of Dennis Township, the area is zoned to Dennis Township Public Schools (for grades K-8) and Middle Township Public Schools (for high school). The latter operates Middle Township High School.</p><br>
<p>Countywide schools include Cape May County Technical High School and Cape May County Special Services School District.</p><br>
<p>The New Asbury Methodist Episcopal Meeting House, also known as the Asbury United Methodist Church, is a historic church located on Shore Road  in Middle Township of Cape May County, New Jersey, about six miles north of Cape May Court House. It was built in 1852 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 1980, for its significance in architecture and religion. It was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey  in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Greek Revival church was built in 1852 by the master builder/architect Daniel Hand, who also built the Old Cape May County Courthouse Building and the Calvary Baptist Church.</p><br>
<p>PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF EAST FRONT AND SOUTH SIDE LOOKING NORTHWEST - New Asbury Methodist Meeting House, Shore Road, Cape May Court House, Cape May County, NJ HABS NJ,5-CAPMAC,6-2.tifHistoric American Buildings Survey photo 1992</p><br>
<p>GENERAL VIEW OF EAST FACADE LOOKING WEST - New Asbury Methodist Meeting House, Shore Road, Cape May Court House, Cape May County, NJ HABS NJ,5-CAPMAC,6-1.tifHistoric American Buildings Survey photo 1992</p><br>
<p>Saint Peter&#39;s-By-The-Sea Episcopal Church, known locally as The Gingerbread Church,</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church is a one-story frame building with a high central clerestory and features Stick/Eastlake architecture with the stick components painted white in contrast to the siding in blue. Originally built for Philadelphia&#39;s 1876 Centennial Exhibition, the church was moved to Cape May Point in 1879. It has been moved four times since, first to get a cooler location closer to the shore, then, as the shoreline retreated, to safer locations away from the shore. It is now near the original site, and much closer to the shore.</p><br>
<p>The Woodbine Brotherhood Synagogue is a historic Jewish synagogue at 612 Washington Avenue in the borough of Woodbine in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. According to a historical marker on the property, it was founded by Russian Jews fleeing pogroms in the 1890s. It was built in 1896 and was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey  in 1979. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 1980, for its significance in architecture, religion, and social history.</p><br>
<h2>Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine History</h2><br>
<p>The building now houses the Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine History. Exhibits include the community&#39;s Russian Jewish immigrant heritage, local history and culture.</p><br>
<p>The Giuseppe Verdi Monument is a sculpture honoring composer Giuseppe Verdi in Verdi Square Park  in Manhattan, New York City. The statue was created by Italian sculptor.</p><br>
<p>The monument measures 25.75 ft tall and up to 18 ft across. The pedestal is made of dark granite steps, topped by a cylinder, and measures 15 ft tall. Statues of four characters from Verdis operas are on the pedestal: Aida, Otello, Leonora of La forza del destino, and Falstaff. These statues respectively face north, east, south, and west. The character statues are made of white Carrara marble, with large marble lyres placed between them. The western side of the pedestal contains an etching with Civilettis name. The main statue of Verdi, placed atop the pedestal, is also made of white Carrara marble.</p><br>
<p>The monument was dedicated on Columbus Day, October 12, 1906, by the Verdi Monument Committee chaired by Carlo Barsotti (1850–1927), an Italian–American who hoped to inspire young Italian Americans. He was the founding editor of the Il Progresso Italo-Americano Italian-American newspaper, and used its pages to raise funds for this and several other memorials including the Columbus Circle monument, an 1888 monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi in Washington Square Park, a monument to Giovanni da Verrazzano (1909) and the 1921 monument to Dante Alighieri in Dante Park.</p><br>
<p>A permanent maintenance endowment for the monument has been established by Bertolli USA. The monument is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church in Springtown, New Jersey, United States. The church was part of two free negro communities, Othello and Springtown, established by local Quaker families, like the Van Leer Family. The congregation was established in 1810 in Greenwich Township as the African Methodist Society and joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1817. A previous church building was burned down in the 1830s in an arson incident and the current structure was built between 1838 and 1841.</p><br>
<p>It is the oldest African Methodist Episcopal Church congregation in New Jersey and one of the last buildings standing where Richard Allen is known to have preached. The church and community were a stop on the Greenwich Line of the Underground Railroad through South Jersey operated by Harriet Tubman for ten years. The church and its members provided shelter and support for fugitive slaves fleeing Maryland and Delaware for free states in the north and Canada. Several church members were operators in the Underground Railroad.</p><br>
<p>The church is on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places. It was placed on the National Register of Historical Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The two-story rectangular building</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 17th century, Swedish, Dutch and English settlers brought slaves to South Jersey to perform the manual labor needed to establish their colonies. Many of the English settlers that founded the West Jersey colony were Quaker and began to debate the morality of owning human beings. In 1738, the Quakers of New Jersey and Pennsylvania united and submitted an agreement to the Society of Friends which recommended discontinuing the use of Africans as slaves. After the Manumission Act of 1786 and New Jersey&#39;s Gradual Abolition of Slavery Act of 1804, the free negro communities of Othello and Springtown were established by Quakers who sold small lots of lands to freed slaves to build homes and raise families.</p><br>
<p>While the Quakers were early proponents of the religious education of slaves, few African-Americans took up Quakerism. However, many Methodists evangelized in South Jersey to slaves and converted many of them. Several African-American preachers, including Richard Allen, traveled throughout the West Jersey colony and had a great impact on establishing Methodism among the African-Americans living there. Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is one of the oldest buildings standing where Richard Allen is known to have preached. Jarena Lee, the first female African Methodist Episcopal preacher, is also known to have preached at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>Initially, Methodist congregations in South Jersey were strong advocates of abolition and white and black parishioners worshipped together. However, in the early 1800s, black parishioners were forced from the Greenwich Township, New Jersey Methodist church after church leaders wavered in their anti-slavery stance as a result of pressure from slaveholder church members. In 1810, black parishioners formed the African Society of Methodists and joined the African Methodist Episcopal church in 1817. By 1824, the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal church congregation had grown to 38 people. The church in Othello, New Jersey, burned down in an arson incident in the late 1830s and services were held in a nearby Hicksite Quaker meetinghouse until the current structure was built sometime between 1838 and 1841.</p><br>
<p>The church and community were a stop on the Underground Railroad and supported fugitive slaves fleeing from the slave states of Maryland and Delaware to free states in the north, and Canada. The church and community were part of the Underground Railroad route through South Jersey known as the Greenwich Line. and she lived and worked in Springtown from 1849 to 1851. The church and its members provided shelter and support to fugitive slaves and several members of the church congregation were operators in the Underground Railroad. The community&#39;s location on a peninsula near the Cohansey River provided multiple water routes for slaves crossing the Delaware River from Eastern Maryland. The heavily wooded and swampy areas around Springtown provided hiding places for slaves when slave catchers came through the area.</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War, several members of the church enlisted and served in the United States Colored Troops regiment.</p><br>
<p>By the 1990s, the congregation size declined to only four members. Due to the historical nature of the church, efforts were made to restore the structure. and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Old Broad Street Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic church on Broad  and Lawrence Streets in Bridgeton, Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States. It was built in 1792 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The church and cemetery are also listed on both the New Jersey Register (ID #1029, since 1973)</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>Ebenezer Elmer (1752–1843), represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from 1801 to 1807.</p><br>
<p>Jonathan Elmer (1745–1817), represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1789 to 1791.</p><br>
<p>Lucius Elmer (1793–1883), represented New Jersey&#39;s 1st congressional district from 1843 to 1845.</p><br>
<p>James G. Hampton (1814–1861), represented New Jersey&#39;s 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1845 to 1849.</p><br>
<p>John T. Nixon (1820–1889), represented from 1859 to 1863.</p><br>
<p>Elias P. Seeley (1791–1846), 11th Governor of New Jersey, serving in 1833.</p><br>
<p>William G. Whiteley (1819–1886), represented Delaware in the United States House of Representatives from 1857 to 1861.</p><br>
<p>Bloomfield H. Minch (1864–1929), President of the New Jersey Senate</p><br>
<p>Joseph Archibald Clark (1822–1914), one of the founders of Cumberland Glass Mfg. Co.</p><br>
<p>Clement Waters Shoemaker (1848–1914), one of the founders of Cumberland Glass Mfg. Co. and philanthropist.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Whitaker Trenchard (1863–1942), Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1906 to 1941.</p><br>
<p>Hessian soldier from the American Revolutionary War</p><br>
<p>Ever Rest is the home and studio of Jasper F. Cropsey, a painter in the Hudson River School. The historic house museum is located in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York and was built in 1835. Cropsey acquired the property in 1886 and built an artist studio addition which was completed in 1888. It is owned and managed by the Newington-Cropsey Foundation which preserves the house and the work of Cropsey.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Charles M. Weeks House is a historic home located at Huntington in Suffolk County, New York. It is a -story, clapboard residence with a mansard roof. It was built about 1860 and representative of the Second Empire style. It has a 2-story shed-roofed kitchen wing. Also on the property is a barn built about 1900.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Wiggins-Rolph House is a historic home located at Huntington in Suffolk County, New York. It was built in 1848 and is a -story, five-bay shingled residence in the Greek Revival style. It has a modern 1-story south wing and modern 2-story north wing. It features a steeply pitched gable roof and paired interior end chimneys.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>William Wooden Wood House is a historic home located at Huntington in Suffolk County, New York. It was built in 1868 and is a -story, three-bay clapboard residence with a -story, four-bay clapboard west wing. The roof features a major gambrel cross-gable with round arched window, wooden ccrsting and finials at the ridge line and two interior end chimneys.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Charles Woodhull House is a historic home located on 70 West Main Street  in Huntington in Suffolk County, New York. It was built in 1870 and is a -story, three-bay clapboard residence with a low gable roof and brick foundation. It features a cupola and paired interior end chimneys. The entrance features a shed-roofed front porch supported by slender paired Doric order columns.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The house is currently commercial real estate and has various professional tenants occupying the beautiful office suites. Richtberg and Rehberger Realty Co., LLC, is the property manager for this historical professional office building.</p><br>
<p>Cornstalk Heights is a neighborhood in Harriman, Tennessee, United States. Platted in the early 1890s as a residential area for Harriman&#39;s upper and professional classes, the neighborhood contains over 100 buildings added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as a historic district for their architectural and historical significance. The neighborhood is named for the home of Harriman founder Frederick Gates, which once stood near the eastern end of the district.</p><br>
<p>Harriman was envisioned as a large-scale industrial center where the application of late 19th-century social reform principles, namely prohibition, would create an ideal living environment. The East Tennessee Land Company, led by Gates, designed the city in late 1889, including in the design several larger, more expensive lots in what is now Cornstalk Heights. Most of the districts earliest houses cost over $3,000 apiece, with some as high as $10,000&mdash;enormous sums for the period. Throughout the 1890s and early 1900s, Harrimans affluent residents built dozens of Victorian homes, most of which are still standing. In 1990, the Cornstalk Heights Historical Community Organization was formed to prevent the district&#39;s Killeffer Park from being converted into a housing development.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Cornstalk Heights is situated atop a low-rising ridge in the original section of Harriman, which is bordered by an oxbow bend in the Emory River on the north, east, and south, and by Walden Ridge on the west. The heights rise to a maximum of about 100 ft above the rest of the city. The district is located along Cumberland, Clinton, and Trenton streets, which run north-to-south, and Walden, Crescent, Queen, and Virginia avenues, which run east-to-west. A narrow alleyway runs along the crest of the ridge between Clinton and Cumberland streets. The district consists of blocks 413–806 Clinton Street, 409–829 Cumberland Street, 502–702 Trenton Street, 418–503 Queen Avenue, 319 Virginia Avenue, and 330, 402–417, and 424–506 Walden Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood contains 110 houses, 100 of which are contributing properties in the National Register listing. Killeffer Park, located along Cumberland Street, is also a contributing property. Two churches in the district&mdash;the First Presbyterian Church and the Open Bible Baptist Church&mdash;were built in 1956 and 1985, respectively, and are non-contributing buildings due to age. The district&#39;s lone contributing commercial building is located at the corner of Walden Avenue and Clinton Street.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Before 1890, what is now Cornstalk Heights (and much of Harriman) was part of a large farm owned by Robert K. Byrd. That year, the East Tennessee Land Company, formed by northern Temperance activists led by Frederick Gates and General Clinton B. Fisk, purchased the land from Byrd&#39;s widow for $26,000. The company hoped to establish a large industrial center that would attract businesses, while at the same time demonstrate the benefits of barring the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages.</p><br>
<p>On Christmas Day, 1889, the East Tennessee Land Company platted a 343 acre section of Harriman that included most of what is now Cornstalk Heights. These lots were sold in late February 1890 at an auction attended by over 4,000 prospective buyers from across the country. In the Cornstalk Heights section, lots along Cumberland Street and the section of Walden Avenue between Cumberland and Clinton streets typically sold for over $2,000. Lots along Clinton Street typically sold for over $1,000. The deeds to these lots required that lot owners construct frame or brick houses with at least six rooms. Over the next two years, fourteen contractors began building homes in Cornstalk Heights, using primarily materials from new industries that had been established across town along the Emory River. The homes of Gates and Gates successor as the East Tennessee Land Companys general manager, William H. Russell (1857&ndash;1911), were probably the earliest homes built in Cornstalk Heights. Gates house was demolished in the 1950s, but Russells house still stands at 525 Cumberland Street.</p><br>
<p>Although the East Tennessee Land Company went bankrupt in the wake of the Panic of 1893, it had succeeded in attracting enough new industry to help Harriman survive. Many of the heads of these new companies built homes in Cornstalk Heights. Henry Winslow, manager of the Harriman Land Company and Harriman&#39;s primary developer after the departure of the East Tennessee Land Company, built his house at 802 Clinton Street. David Gibson, owner of Gibson Agricultural Works, built at 403 Walden Avenue. V. G. Farnham, manager of the Harriman Tack Company, built at 813 Cumberland Street. S. K. Paige, owner of a lumber company, built the house now known as "Bushrod Hall" at 422 Cumberland Street. In the 1920s, Tom Tarwater&mdash;manager of the Roane Hosiery Company&mdash;built at 709 Cumberland Street.</p><br>
<p>The Reverend Alexander Killeffer, a photographer for the East Tennessee Land Company, founded Harrimans St. Andrews Episcopal Church in the early 1890s, and helped build its original meeting house at 630 Trenton Street, where the Open Bible Baptist Church now stands. The original design of Harriman included a park along Cumberland Street, originally named Fisk Park, but eventually renamed "Killeffer Park" after Killeffers son, Louis, a long-time resident of Cornstalk Heights. The site along Clinton Street now occupied by the First Presbyterian Church was originally the site of a school, which operated from 1891 to 1917.</p><br>
<h2>Designs</h2><br>
<p>The earliest (1890&ndash;1895) houses in Cornstalk Heights were mostly Victorian homes designed in Queen Anne, Eastlake, and Folk Victorian styles. Colonial Revival and Bungalow/Craftsman styles were more common for houses built after 1900. Other architectural styles represented in the district include Dutch Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Neoclassical Revival, American Foursquare, and Minimal Traditional.</p><br>
<p>Houses in the district range from one to three stories, and typically follow irregular floor plans. Most have gabled roofs, aluminum, brick, or stone siding, and limestone or brick foundations. The district has 33 contributing outbuildings, mainly carriage houses, servants quarters, and garages. To compensate for abrupt changes in elevation, limestone retaining walls surround the perimeters of several housing lots, as well as Killeffer Park. The districts sidewalks still consist of the original bricks laid out in the 1890s, some of which bear the stamp of the Robbins Brick Company of Scott County, Tennessee.</p><br>
<h3>Notable houses</h3><br>
<p>Russell-Jackson House (525 Cumberland Street), an Eastlake-style house built in 1890 for William H. Russell, general manager of the East Tennessee Land Company, and believed to be the oldest standing house in Cornstalk Heights.</p><br>
<p>Nottingham-Webb House (417 Clinton Street), also called the D&#39;Armond House, a Queen Anne-style house built in 1890 by early Harriman judge C. W. Nottingham.</p><br>
<p>Hopkins-Sutton-Coleman House (725 Cumberland Street), called "Colton House" a Folk Victorian house built 1890 and once used as a Presbyterian manse.</p><br>
<p>Bushrod Hall (422 Cumberland Street), also called the Paige-Robinson House, a Queen Anne-style house built in 1892 by lumber mill owner S. K. Paige. In 1895, the American Temperance University purchased the house for its School of Domestic Sciences for Young Ladies, which operated until 1900. The house was renamed "Bushrod Hall" after one of the school&#39;s benefactors.</p><br>
<p>Williamson-Jones House (629 Cumberland Street), or Lane House, a Folk Victorian house built by A. T. Waters in 1893. The Williamson and Jones families were later owners. The Lane family lived in the house between 1914 and 1965.</p><br>
<p>Winslow House (802 Clinton Street), a Queen Anne-style house built in 1895 by Harriman Land Company manager Henry Winslow. Winslows son, John Cooper Winslow, lived in the house until the 1970s, but stayed in just one room, leaving the remainder of the house as it was the day his mother died. John Cooper Winslows odd behavior led to the development of a number of ghost stories surrounding the Winslow House.</p><br>
<p>Monte Vista (514 Cumberland Street), or the Cassell-Conley House, a Colonial Revival-style house built in 1905 by Judge Robert Cassell and his wife, Perle.</p><br>
<p>Killeffer House (506 Clinton Street), a Colonial Revival-style house built in 1939 to replace a 1904 house which had burned. Dr. Louis Killeffer, a physician whose parents were among the city&#39;s earliest residents, lived here until the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>Hendrick- Branham Home (710 Clinton St.), a Two Story Bungalow style home. Built in 1896 by turn of the century mayor Claude E. Hendrick. His administration continued until 1915 and has become known to be longest term any mayor has served in Harriman, TN. This home is situated on 2 lots and features a full wrap around porch, stained glass windows, a two tiered 10 foot fireplace, and lead glass transom and sidelights windows. The largest room is the living room which is 36 ft. long. Upstairs in the bathroom you will find a 6 ft Clawfoot tub that is original to the home.</p><br>
<p>Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church located on New Jersey Route 49  in the Gouldtown section of Fairfield Township in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States. The current church was built in 1860, on the eve of the American Civil War. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 29, 1995, for its significance in religion and African-American history.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>Gouldtown is now just a crossroads with a few buildings, but it is one of the oldest settlements in America founded by free, land-owning African-Americans. The Rev. Ruben Cuff of Salem County organized a society of African Americans in 1818. In 1823 they bought an unused schoolhouse to use as a church, and in 1834 they bought a second schoolhouse and moved it to the site. p.84</p><br>
<p>Bethany Baptist Church is a historic church at 117 W. Market Street in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>The church traces its origins to 1870, when a group of African Americans established the church on Broad Street in Newark in the building of the Peddie Memorial Baptist Church. Under the leadership of the Reverend Ebenezer Bird, who had come from Virginia to lead the congregation of about 26 members, the group was officially sanctioned as a church by the Council of Baptist Churches in June 1871. Thus, the church prides itself on being the "first Baptist congregation founded by people of African descent."</p><br>
<p>The Romanesque style church building was constructed in 1866. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The church was under the stewardship of M. William Howard, Jr., from 2000 to 2015.</p><br>
<p>The old building appears to have been replaced by a housing complex, which has been replaced by a new building at 275 W. Market Street. The new building was dedicated on May 2, 1976.</p><br>
<p>Catedral Evangelica Reformada, originally the Clinton Avenue Reformed Church, is a historic church located at 27 Lincoln Park and Halsey Street in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Newark in Essex County, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 26, 1972, for its significance in architecture and religion. It was added as a contributing property to the Lincoln Park Historic District on January 5, 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The church was designed by architect Thomas A. Roberts in Gothic Revival style. It was constructed from 1868 to 1872. Built using light-colored sandstone, it features a tall square turret with a broach spire.</p><br>
<p>Central Presbyterian Church is a historic church located at 46 Park Street in Montclair, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1921 and dedicated on Oct. 15, 1922. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1986, for its significance in architecture. The building was designed by architecture firms Carrere & Hastings and Shreve, Lamb & Harmon.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1837 a board of trustees and officers, elected at a meeting at the local schoolhouse, started planning for a Presbyterian society for West Bloomfield, the township informally known as Cranetown that later, in 1870, was officially recognized as Montclair.</p><br>
<p>The schoolhouse already on the property was renovated. The church was made of wood and built over the schoolrooms. The church was in the center of town, on a triangular-shaped block bordered by Bloomfield Avenue, Park Street and Church Street. On August 9, 1838 the church was formally dedicated. Samuel Ware Fischer was the church&#39;s first pastor, from 1839 to 1849 and later served as President of Hamilton College.</p><br>
<p>In 1860 a new and larger building behind the original church was dedicated as The First Presbyterian Church of Montclair.</p><br>
<p>In 1867 the church bought the school next door and expanded to accommodate 700 people. In 1868, the new Township of Montclairs first board meeting was held in the churchs lecture room.</p><br>
<p>In 1886, a split in the congregation concerning church policy led to the formation of the Trinity Presbyterian Church. On December 2, 1913, Trinity and Old First merged and officially became The Central Presbyterian Church of Montclair.</p><br>
<p>A new church building, at the corner of Park Street and Claremont Avenue, was dedicated on October 15, 1922.</p><br>
<p>In 1950 Central ordained its first women elders.</p><br>
<p>The Congregational Church, also known as the First Congregational Church of Montclair, is a historic United Church of Christ church located at 42 South Fullerton Avenue in the township of Montclair in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The church was designed by the architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and features Perpendicular Gothic style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 1, 1988, for its significance in architecture. It was listed in the Churches section of the Historic Resources of Montclair Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>The British-born organist Mark Andrews served as the church&#39;s organist from 1917 to 1939.</p><br>
<p>House of Prayer Episcopal Church and Rectory is a historic site at Broad and State Streets in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built in prior to 1725  and the church in 1849 and they were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The rectory was the home of Hannibal Goodwin, priest and inventor. Known as the Plume House, the building is considered one of the most endangered landmarks in the state.</p><br>
<p>The parish was founded in 1849 and held its first services in the rectory on November 7. A few days later, construction began on the Gothic Revival church building, designed by Frank Wills, which was consecrated a year later. A parish hall was added in several phases later in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The House that Lives is a historic house located at 83 Watchung Avenue in the township of Montclair in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It was built in 1922 and designed by architect Clifford C. Wendehack with Modern Movement and Tudor Revival elements. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 1, 1988, for its significance in architecture. It was listed in the Selection of Montclair&#39;s Published Houses section of the Historic Resources of Montclair Multiple Property Submission .</p><br>
<p>The house received its name from the Woman&#39;s Club of Upper Montclair, which exhibited the house during its "Better Homes Week" in June 1923.</p><br>
<p>Indian and the Puritan is a 1916 marble and bronze monument by Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, opposite 5 Washington Street, the Newark Public Library, in Washington Park of Newark in Essex County, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 1994, as part of the Public Sculpture in Newark, New Jersey Multiple Property Submission.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The monument is a 22 feet bronze lamp standard featuring two carved marble sculptures, a Native American and a Puritan. The lamp standard has Newarks city seal and two inscriptions that describe the citys history. The monument was commissioned by the city to commemorate its 250th anniversary, 1666–1916. It was moved to its current location in Washington Park in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Other sculptures by Borglum in Newark are: Seated Lincoln (1911), First Landing Party of the Founders of Newark (1916), and Wars of America (1926).</p><br>
<p>Newark Female Charitable Society  was founded by the leading women of Newark in 1803, making it the oldest social organization in New Jersey and the third oldest in the United States. Its complex of buildings was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Newark Female Charitable Society was organized in January 1803 and incorporated in 1878). It was located in the Female Charitable Building at 305 Halsey Street. The organizations goal was to relieve want without inducing pauperism. Cases were first investigated by the Bureau of Associated Charities. The Relief Committee visited the poor in their homes and gave gratuitous or industrial aid as the case demanded. The Society maintained a laundry, open daily, and provided instruction and facilities for laundry work. Dinner for women employed in the building was available daily. Industrial Building Savings Bank deposits were received Friday afternoon. Mothers Meetings, Sewing School, and a Kitchen Garden Class were held weekly, from November to May. Fresh Air Fund work occurred from June until September.</p><br>
<p>The Newark Bureau of Associated Charities was organized in February 1882, through the initiative of members of the Newark Female Charitable Society. That Society finding itself imposed upon, sought relief in the formation of an organization that would investigate all applications for help and refer to it those for which it was properly responsible.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and fittings</h2><br>
<p>The Society owned a group of historic buildings at 305 Halsey Street and at 41 and 43 Hill Street in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The oldest and most significant building is 305 Halsey Street, a 3-story red brick and terra cotta building that was built in 1886 by the Society and designed by R. H. Rowden. It is "Victorian Eclectic in style with definite Romanesque features." The building at 41 Hill Street, adjacent to 305 Halsey, is a brick townhouse acquired by the Society in 1912 to house its expanding programs, although its maintenance proved expensive and it was sold by the Society in 1923. The two-story building next door at 43 Hill Street was constructed in 1977 as a medical and dental clinic. The entire complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Newark Day Center</h2><br>
<p>The Society is now known as the Newark Day Center and functions as a community organization. It still occupies 305 Halsey and 43 Hill, which together house a child development center, a senior center, and other programs that benefit Newark residents.</p><br>
<h2>Notable people</h2><br>
<p>Ida Wharton Dawson (1860-1928), President, New Jersey State Federation of Women&#39;s Clubs</p><br>
<h2>Selected works</h2><br>
<p>Queen of Angels Church  was a historic Black Catholic church on Belmont Avenue  at Morton Street in Newark, New Jersey. It was the first Catholic parish for African Americans in the Archdiocese of Newark.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Queen of Angels was built between 1854 and 1861 and was Newarks first African-American Catholic parish, becoming such in 1926. Its original 1930 building was destroyed in 1958, and the parish relocated, taking over a space at a church once known as St. Peters.</p><br>
<p>During the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr. held meetings at the church for the Poor People&#39;s Campaign and the church also helped organized a march for racial harmony after his assassination.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, administered by the Society of African Missions beginning in 1979, and was later closed in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The church was slated for demolition in 2014 and demolished in 2016.</p><br>
<p>Second Reformed Dutch Church  is a historic church building at 178-184 Edison Place in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1848 originally for a Dutch Reformed congregation. The building added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It has been home to several other congregations since its founding, including Igreja Assembleia de deus, an Assemblies of God congregation led by Pastor Welbr DosSantos, who is the first missionary sent from Assembleia de Deus, Belo Horizonte, Brasil to the USA.</p><br>
<p>South Park Calvary United Presbyterian Church is a historic church built in 1853 and located at 1035 Broad Street in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Newark in Essex County, New Jersey. Only the facade remains, following a 1992 fire. Also known as the South Park Presbyterian Church, it was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1936. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 5, 1972, for its significance in architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The church was designed by architect John Welch, one of the founders of American Institute of Architects, using Greek Revival style. It features a portico in Nova Scotia brownstone with four Ionic columns. The church also features twin circular colonnaded towers.</p><br>
<p>As of 2019, funding is in place to stabilize the facade and create an outdoor performance space behind it.</p><br>
<p>St. Johns Church is a historic Roman Catholic parish church located within the Archdiocese of Newark at 22-26 Mulberry Street in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. St. Johns Church is the state&#39;s third-oldest Catholic church.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1826 the congregation held its first meeting in the basement of Charles Durnings home. Construction of the current building began in 1827. Later renovations and additions took place throughout the 19th and 20th centuries and incorporated the original structures walls. When the church was first built, it was the only Catholic church in northern New Jersey and was originally part of the Diocese of New York. The church currently runs a soup kitchen, women&#39;s shelter, and art gallery for children. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
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<p>St. Joseph Plaza is an event venue in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, which formerly served St. Joseph&#39;s Roman Catholic Church, a parish of the Archdiocese of Newark of the Roman Catholic Church. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 8, 1980, for its significance in architecture and religion.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church was a traditional Gothic Revival brownstone church, with a tall central nave flanked by lower aisles and transepts, oriented with the apse facing east and the three entrance doors facing west, one for each aisle and another along the nave. The nave has a steep slate gable roof. The front façade is asymmetrical, with a square bell tower with flat top on one side. The interior was extensively renovated in the early 1980s, but the exterior, having been registered as a landmark, remained unchanged.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was established in 1859 by James Roosevelt Bayley, first bishop of Newark. The construction of the Morris Canal had bisected the parish of St. Patricks Pro-Cathedral, and also attracted Catholic immigrant workers to the area, necessitating a new worship space. A two-story brick building was built to serve as the parishs church and school. Fr. James F. Dalton was named its first pastor in 1868, and a stone he had brought back from Glendalough, Ireland was laid as the cornerstone for a new stone church on Thanksgiving Day in 1872. Irish-American architect Jeremiah ORourke designed the new church in the Gothic Revival style. Construction was repeatedly delayed, and it was not dedicated until April 18, 1880. A 3-story brick rectory was built in 1885. St. Josephs School, a 4-story brick building, was constructed north of the church in 1894.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood was depopulated by urban renewal projects which cleared out residential areas and saw the expansion of neighboring university campuses, and by white flight after the 1967 Newark riots, accelerating a post-World War II decline in enrollments as parishioners decamped for the suburbs. The congregation had declined to about 30 when the archdiocese closed the parish in 1980, the same year the complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>A local housing non-profit, the New Community Corporation, acquired the complex for $105,000 shortly thereafter and began redeveloping it. The church was converted into a restaurant, offices, and performance space, and the rectory into commercial offices; the school building was demolished for parking. It was New Community&#39;s first commercial office venture.</p><br>
<p>St. Lucy&#39;s Church is a historic church at 19-27 Ruggiero Plaza at the intersection of Seventh Ave.in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It is home to the American National Shrine of Saint Gerard Majella in the Catholic Church.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1925 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The church is in the Old First Ward near Branch Brook Park, a historically Italian parish in what was Newarks Little Italy, features an annual October procession and festival for St. Gerard Majella, the patron saint of childbearing, that is heavily attended by the New Jersey Italian diaspora. The October Feast of St. Gerard "became so popular and so widely-known for producing miracle babies for hitherto childless women that in 1977 the National Conference of USA Bishops made St. Lucys the National Shrine of St. Gerard."</p><br>
<p>The church holds a monthly mass in honor of St. Gerard at which expectant parents and others hoping to become expectant venerate the saint.</p><br>
<p>St. Marks Episcopal Church is a historic church located at 13 Main Street at Valley Road in West Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. After the Episcopal congregation dwindled, the building subsequently housed the Primera Iglesia Evangelica Metodista Libra de los Oranges, a Methodist congregation. The buildings interior was destroyed, and exterior badly damaged, by fire on January 1, 2016.</p><br>
<p>The church was called an "outstanding example of Gothic Revival architecture" by Preservation New Jersey, and was listed as one of the ten most endangered historic sites in New Jersey in 1996. It has been said that the building "represents the beginning and the end of the ecclesiological style in the United States." The Ecclesiological style movement in church architecture advocated Gothic revival architecture using theological arguments.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original Episcopal congregation was founded in 1828 as an offshoot of Trinity Parish in Newark. Within a few decades it had become the largest and wealthiest Episcopal congregation in and around "The Oranges" of New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>Work on the brownstone main church began in 1828. An addition completed in 1860–1861, including the steeple, is attributed to architect Richard Upjohn.</p><br>
<p>St. Mark&#39;s ran the first elementary school in West Orange beginning in 1865. This school building was destroyed by fire in 1926. It also ran the first high school in West Orange, which graduated a class of nine students in 1893. A new high school building was opened in 1898, which was destroyed by fire on February 27, 1913.</p><br>
<p>The parish prospered until the 1960s, when declining attendance led to mounting financial hardships. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, but the church and its adjacent cemetery fell into disrepair. In 2004, the Episcopal Diocese of Newark leased it to Lamb of God Fellowship, a Renewal congregation, for what was intended to be a long-term stay, but the Fellowship left in 2009 due to the high cost of maintaining the property. The Diocese sold the property to another religious organization in early 2015.</p><br>
<p>The church caught fire on January 1, 2016 around 5 a.m. (1000 UTC) and was ablaze for three hours. No injuries were reported in the historic church.</p><br>
<p>Update: January 1, 2017. The church currently in the construction phase of being fully restored by architects Zachary Gidich and David Sepulveda.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Abbey Church is a historic Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Newark, located at 528 Martin Luther King Blvd  and William St. in Newark, New Jersey.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The parish was established in 1842 to serve the needs of working-class German-speaking immigrants who worked in Newark&#39;s factories. It met originally in a wooden church, but this was destroyed in 1856 by anti-Catholic Know Nothing elements.</p><br>
<p>The new church was entrusted to the monks of the Order of Saint Benedict, first under the direction of Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, and then, after becoming an independent institution, by the monks of Newark Abbey, who continue to provide spiritual and academic guidance to the community through the parish and Saint Benedict&#39;s Preparatory School.</p><br>
<p>Construction was completed in 1857. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>St. Rocco&#39;s Roman Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic parish church located within the Archdiocese of Newark at 212—216 Hunterdon Street in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
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<p>St. Rocco&#39;s (Italian) Roman Catholic Church was founded on August 5, 1899, when Rev James Zuccarelli was appointed to open a new mission. The cornerstone of the church was laid on March 12, 1900, with the dedication occurring on May 30, 1900. The parish school was founded in 1906.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register in 1980.</p><br>
<p>St. Stephan&#39;s Church is a historic church on Ferry Street and Wilson Avenue in the Ironbound section of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1874 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. St. Stephans Church was originally named St. Stephans German United Evangelical Church, due to its establishment by the German people who had immigrated to the area. At an important road intersection in the Ironbound, St. Stephans stands. The nickname of this intersection is referred to as "Five Corners" or "The Bend." In the 1960s, St. Stephans switched from the United Evangelical Church to St. Stephans United Church of Christ. It also switched from services in German to services in Portuguese and Spanish. This was due to an influx of Brazilian immigrants to the area, many of whom began attending services at St. Stephans. In 1997, the current Pastor, Pastor Moacir Weirich, immigrated to the US and opened the Lutheran Information Center nearby. In 2000, the Lutheran Church began sharing space with the United Church of Christ in St. Stephans. At the time, services were primarily held in Portuguese. In 2009, the Churchs merged, forming St. Stephans Grace Community Church. Presently, St. Stephans primarily holds services in Spanish, but offers them in three languages, Portuguese, English, and Spanish.</p><br>
<p>St. Stephan&#39;s now shares space with three community organizations based in Newark. These include the New Labor organization, the Newark Water Coalition, and the Ironbound Community Corporation.</p><br>
<p>This was also the site of the alien ship rising up from beneath of the street in the 2005 film, War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise alongside with Rick Gonzalez and Yul Vazquez. The recreated church front facing onto Merchant Street was mechanically designed to shear off and move as the earth shook before the alien craft emerged.</p><br>
<p>Today, St. Stephan’s Church is a congregation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, ministering to primarily Portuguese and Spanish-speaking parishioners.</p><br>
<p>Trinity & St. Philip&#39;s Cathedral is a historic church located at Broad and Rector Streets in Military Park in the city of Newark in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It is the seat of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark. The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 3, 1972, for its significance in architecture and religion. It was added as a contributing property to the Military Park Commons Historic District on June 18, 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first services for colonists who had settled in Newark were conducted by visiting priests starting in 1729. They organized Trinity Church and built a small stone church building with a steeple in 1743. A charter was granted by King George II in 1746. The building was used as a hospital for both British and American troops during the American Revolutionary War. It sustained damage during the conflict and the present building was planned and built. It was completed in 1810. A chancel and sanctuary were added to the east end in 1857. Trinity Church was elevated to cathedral status in 1944. St. Philips Church, a predominantly African American parish on High and West Market Streets, was destroyed in a fire in 1964. Two years later the two congregations were merged. The Very Rev. Dillard Robinson was elected dean in 1968. He was the first African American to serve as a cathedral dean in the United States. The name "St. Philips" was added to the cathedral name in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Wickliffe Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 111 13th Avenue in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It is in Richardsonian Romanesque style and was designed by William Halsey Wood. It was built in 1889.</p><br>
<p>The 13th Avenue church replaced a church used previously by the congregation at 2 Wickliffe Street, in Newark. Wickliffe Street intersects 13th Avenue a block or two away.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The church was demolished for the University Heights Houses. It was located on 13th Ave near Boston and Richmond Streets. What remains is a facade with two placards of the Historical significance, one dated 1992.</p><br>
<p>Moravian Church is a historic church building located on Swedesboro-Sharptown Road in the Oliphant&#39;s Mill  section of Woolwich Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey. The church was dedicated in 1789 and documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey  in 1938. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 3, 1973, for its significance in architecture and religion. The property is currently under the stewardship of the Gloucester County Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>In 1747, Moravians built a log church here, near Oldmans Creek. The current brick building was started in 1786 and dedicated in 1789. In 1836, the property was sold to the Protestant Episcopal Church of New Jersey. In 1948, the Gloucester County Historical Society purchased it.</p><br>
<p>Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church and Mount Zion Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery located at 172 Garwin Road in Woolwich Township, New Jersey, United States. The church was a stop on the Greenwich Line of the Underground Railroad through South Jersey operated by Harriet Tubman for 10 years. The church provided supplies and shelter to runaway slaves on their way to Canada from the South. The church and cemetery were part of the early 19th-century free negro settlement sponsored by Quakers known as Small Gloucester.</p><br>
<p>The church was founded in 1799 as a Methodist Society and became part of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1813. The current structure was built in 1834, remodeled in 1887 and expanded in 1959. The cemetery is a quarter of an acre in size and located just west of the church. It contains more than 200 graves, some of which date back to 1861. The church and cemetery are on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
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<p>In the 17th century, Swedish, Dutch and English settlers brought slaves to South Jersey to perform the manual labor needed to establish their colonies. Many of the English settlers that founded the West Jersey colony were Quaker and began to debate the morality of owning human beings. In 1738, the Quakers of New Jersey and Pennsylvania united and submitted an agreement to the Society of Friends which recommended to discontinue the use of Africans as slaves. While the Quakers were early proponents of the religious education of slaves, few African-Americans took up Quakerism. However, many Methodists evangelized in South Jersey to slaves and converted many of them. Several African-American preachers, including Richard Allen, traveled throughout the West Jersey colony, including around Woolwich township, and had a great impact on establishing Methodism among the African-Americans living there.</p><br>
<p>After the American Revolutionary War, the Quakers and other anti-slavery proponents established small hamlets on their property for freed slaves and African Americans to live. The church and cemetery were part of the early 19th-century free negro settlement known as Small Gloucester supported by local Quakers including the Van Leer family. The church was founded in 1799 as a Methodist Society and became a member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1813.</p><br>
<p>The church was part of the Underground Railroad route through South Jersey known as the Greenwich Line. The line began in Springtown, New Jersey through Small Gloucester and north to Mount Holly, Burlington and Jersey City. Harriet Tubman helped operate the Greenwich Line for over 10 years. The church provided supplies and shelter for slaves using the Underground Railroad to flee to Canada. A secret three-by-four foot trap door in the vestibule of the church was used to access a crawlspace to hide runaway slaves.</p><br>
<p>The church and cemetery are on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and they were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>The cemetery is a quarter of an acre in size and is located just west of the church. The plot contains more than two hundred graves, most of which are unmarked. The oldest gravestone has a date of 1861, however it is believed that burials date back to the 1830s. Thirteen black soldiers from the American Civil War are buried in the cemetery. The cemetery was closed to new burials, fell into disrepair, many of the stones sank into the ground and the plot became overgrown with trees. Many of the overgrown trees have been cut back and the cemetery is currently maintained by the Gloucester County Probation Office.</p><br>
<p>The Richwood Methodist Church is located at 104 Richwood Road in the Richwood section of the township of Harrison in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. The historic church was built around 1860 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 19, 1979, for its significance in architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The church was organized on May 22, 1860. The land for the church building was purchased on August 2. It was built later in the year or early in 1861. The Late Victorian style church also has Greek and Gothic features. The church has also been known as Mount Pleasant and Five Points. Stained glass windows were installed in 1925.</p><br>
<p>St. Peters Protestant Episcopal Church, Berkeley in Clarksboro is a historic church on Kings Highway in the Clarksboro section of East Greenwich Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s was founded in Berkeley (now Mount Royal, NJ) in 1770 by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the missionary arm of the Church of England. The current church was built in 1845 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
