The Golf Island neighborhood of Maplewood, bordered by the Maplewood Country Club golf course, the Morris and Essex rail line, and the...

College Hill is one of Maplewood’s most clearly identifiable neighborhoods due to its roster of collegiate street names: Amherst, ...

By Bessie Sharp, in Maplewood Past and Present In 1862 Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt, uncle of Theodore Roosevelt, came out from New...

The Ackerson Company offered prospective buyers at least six pre-designed house models, as seen by these renderings from their brochure....

The C.V.S. Roosevelt Jr. mansion, built c. 1865, was a rambling country estate known as “The Hickories.” Its prominent tower would have ...

In a 220-year-old house, it is not unreasonable to think (hope?) that someone’s ghost is still wandering about the place. Does the...

A practical, adaptable and livable home-grown original Four-squares are the “little black dress” of American residential architecture –...

Edward C. Balch, who lived in Maplewood from 1890 until his death in 1934, was one of the most prominent builders of the time. In 2010,...

How much do the style of a house and its neighbors impact the way Maplewood looks and feels? What may seem to be an intangible quality –...

The executors of the C.V.S. Roosevelt Jr. estate were enmeshed in a long dispute over his will, but upon its resolution, William Howard...

Thomas Benton Ackerson, owner of the eponymous T. B. Ackerson Company, entered the Roosevelt Park story in 1904. A developer of houses...

Are you thinking of buying new windows in order to be energy efficient and save money? Think again! Your home’s original windows can be...

“Lifestyle” is a concept that seems very modern, but the work of Gustav Stickley, architect, furniture designer and manufacturer, ...

Vintage postcards allow us to step back in time 100 years ago to explore the streets, neighborhoods and buildings of our communities as ...

Restoration of an old house is an ongoing process. In 2000, as Island Housewrights restoration experts worked to finish stripping the ...

The Durand-Hedden House, whose original structure was built in about 1790, sits on two acres of the original plantation that was part of a...

425 Ridgewood Road, Maplewood The Timothy Ball House is one of the most interesting and impressive early houses in the region, both...

88 Tuscan Road, Maplewood The Jonas Ball House was constructed in 1750 as a cooper shop, made of massive fieldstone and hand-hewn...

Lewis Pierson, owner of Pierson’s Mill, built the House known as Vaux Hall in 1843. Vaux Hall and the Durand-Hedden House are the only...

1 Ridgewood Terrace, Maplewood John Beam House was built in about 1913 by Edward Balch, one of the most important developers in...