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This unidentified and undated clipping from a newspaper shows the mansion of Archibald Gracie King, known as The Bluff. The drawing of the house is captioned Copyright by Jas L Wells, 1894. It is mounted next to a letter to the editor of the New York…

Water color painting of Highwood, the estate of James Gore King, painted by Grant Wright and based on a 1957 charcoal drawing of Highwood by Thomas Ayres. Ayres did a series of drawings of the Highwood estate, which reside in the New York Historical…

Colored postcard photo looking south on Palisade Avenue towards Shippen Street. Peter Hoffmann publisher, Union Hill, NJ Printed in Germany.

Colored photo postcard of Palisade Avenue. Postmarked August 9, 1913 from Weehawken.

This 360 degree panoramic photograph appears to have been taken from the top of the Water Tower. It was taken by August Patzig and was deposited for copyright in the Library of Congress on May 19, 1909. This image is part of the Library of Congress…

The building that today houses the Weehawken Free Public Library was once the Peter Mansion, owned by Emil Peter the son of a leading brewer in North Hudson, William Peter. Charles H. Arnoldi, a Union City pharmacist, purchased the house in 1934,…

Undated black and white photo of Karl Bitters home and studio in silhouette on the cliffs above the Hudson. This item is in the collection of the Weehawken Historical Commission.

A black and white snapshot of the houses at 955/957 Boulevard East (between 46th and 47th Streets). Written on the back: "Me on the porch of our new house in Weehawken, NJ." Thanks to Franco Pasquale for the correct location of this item.  

This photo from the early 1900s shows Patrolman Sy. Clute of the Weehawken Police Department and Boulevard Officer Patrick Dolan, who later became chief of the Hudson County Police Department. It was taken at the corner of 4th Street (today's 48th…

This auction prospectus put out by the Port of New York Authority in 1945, offering 10 homes that were bought by the Authority before the tunnel construction, assuming that the Kingswood Road area would be part of the construction. Bids were due on…