Over the centuries many families in our community have chosen Rosedale Cemetery as their final place of rest. It consists of 92...

During his multi-faceted six-decade-long career, renowned Hudson River School founder Asher B. Durand truly lived a life in art - as an...

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

Susan Newberry, Maplewood township historian and Durand-Hedden president, writes about the Maplewood post office.

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....

At his death at 59 in 1887, the estate of Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt, Jr. was valued at between one and two million dollars, and...

The extended Roosevelt family were great believers in the benefits of summer vacations in the country and outdoor pursuits. Teddy, as a...

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

The familiar park with the awesome views to the east on the mountain above Maplewood and nearby towns has far more interesting origins...

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

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 earliest residents of the Maplewood-South Orange area were The Lenape (len-AH-pay), Native Americans who once populated “a vast...

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...

Opportunities to see the 1915 show of glass slides of historic Maplewood images come along rarely, and they always draw a...

Long before the police station and fire department were located beside Memorial Park following Maplewood's incorporation, the area had...

For centuries, apples have been the most commonly grown and consumed fruit in the northern latitudes. In 2006, a detailed and expansive...