History

As baseball’s pennant races heat up, take a closer look at two New Jersey historical sites: Hoboken's Elysian Fields and Jersey City's Roosevelt Stadium, that both helped shape America’s pastime.

Weequahic High School's historic importance was recently recognized when it was named to New Jersey’s Register of Historic Places.

A cobblestoned, East Coast cousin of San Francisco’s Lombard Street is tucked away in the New Jersey Palisades.

An 1889 Colonial Revival home in Montclair has five bedrooms, four baths, and a solarium.

The invention of celluloid camera film, which revolutionized the industry, occurred in Newark. However, the building in which it was invented, and the history behind the structure, might surprise you.

The owner of Moe's Bait and Tackle is planning to close the store in the near future after nearly 50 years.

Architects found layers of history that go back more than a century.

Judge Stephen Garretson’s former home is believed to be the oldest building in Hamilton Park, Jersey City.

The Van Vorst Park section of Jersey City is a coveted residential enclave known for its abundance of intact row houses. Today, we examine the history behind two archetypical Barrow Street brownstones.

During a stroll through Hamilton Park’s tree-lined blocks of brownstones and row houses, one long brick building with the words “Wells Fargo” on the front stands out. But instead of bank tellers, ATMs and the hustle and bustle of a banking branch, the century-old building once housed key components to the early days of cross-country mail delivery.