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This black and white photograph, donated by Carol Cordes, shows a group of people (unknown who) in front of The Little Brewery, located at Shippen and West Streets in West Hoboken. The Little Brewery was owned by Rudolph Heinrich and was the birth…

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,…

Sales brochure designed to entice potential homebuyers to purchase property in the Eldorado Heights section of Weehawken around the turn of the century. This was after the closing of the Eldorado amusement park. I hope that not too many purchasers…

Black and white photo, circa 1939, looking northwest at houses between Hudson and Eldorado Place on Boulevard East.

Black and white photo of Eldorado Place, looking west. Part of the Weehawken High School and water tower are visible at the end of the street. From the collection of the Weehawken Historical Commission.

This identified newspaper clipping shows the demolition of houses in the Valley section of town in preparation for the building of the approaches to the Lincoln Tunnel. From the collection of the Weehawken Historical Commission.

Black and white photographs of glacial rock in the Heights area exposed during construction of the reservoir. This picture is from the 1893 Annual Report of the NJ State Geologist, which can be accessed from the external web link to your left.

Undated engraving of the mansion of A. G. King, which was located in the Bluffs section of town, named for the mansion. King was the son of James Gore King. The drawing was used in a real estate lots auction advertisement in 1894. From the collection…

This is a circa 1960s photo of the Seltzer mansion, located at 55 King Ave. It was owned by Theodore Seltzer, president and founder of Bengue Inc, which made Ben-Gay ointment. Seltzer earned $295,613 in 1947, one of the top salaries in business at…

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…