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

Are you one of our community’s many “house-proud” residents curious about their home’s past? In February 2018, nationally known land...

As the City of Newark prepared to celebrate its 350th anniversary in 2016, Elizabeth Del Tufo, President of the Newark Preservation and ...

The Durand-Hedden House, which for many years was painted a salmon color, was repainted in 2014. Thanks to The Village Green and Mary...

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

Walter Clinton Pettee, an artist and illustrator who had moved to Maplewood with his new wife, Alice Tanner Brown, in 1901, renovated the...

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

The Woman’s Club of Maplewood, established in December 1916, was a product of a growing movement in America that had begun after 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, ...

Harold Tatton practiced architecture in the first half of the 20th century and specialized in the Colonial and Tudor Revival styles which...

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...