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Central Presbyterian Church of Montclair Founded 1837
Celebrates the 150th Anniversary of Our Hometown!
Sunday Worship, Sunday School 10:00 a.m.
Everyone is Welcome Here
Serving children, youth, and adults. A variety of family programs offered. 123KIDS,
Second Saturdays community events, Young Disciples program, Teen Youth Group
and Mission Trips, Adult Education Classes, Hosting programs for
Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN), Red Cross Blood Drives and Classes,
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Rev. David C. Noble, Pastor
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THE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
CONGREGATION AT MONTCLAIR
june 29, 1918: an outdoor sermon, packanack mountain
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WHAT’S INSIDE
MONTCLAIR 150
Montclair history: an overview..............................E-6
Montclair before Montclair.....................................E-8
How Montclair got its name...............................E-12
Social life and the arts..............................................E-14
Montclair’s ‘Freed Slave’ house.........................E-22
Second life for repurposed buildings..........E-24
Montclair’s YMCA/YWCA.......................................E-30
Our well-known neighbors...................................E-34
Schools through the years...................................E-40
Business history..............................................................E-42
Montclair’s playing fields...................................... E-46
Sports legends...............................................................E-50
Quirks and did-you-knows.................................. E-56
The gardens of Montclair.....................................E-60
FROM THE EDITOR
Thank you for reading Montclair Local’s special tribute
section celebrating the 150th anniversary of our favorite town.
There’s really no way to concisely cover a century and a half
of history and memories, but our staff has done our very best
to provide a sample of what it’s been like to work, to play, to
live, to learn, to thrive, and to eat, drink and be merry at various
points in our town’s history.
As the years and decades go by, Montclair continues to
change and grow, always with that undercurrent of tension
between what was and what will be. Here at Montclair Local,
we’re documenting those changes every single day.
But no matter what your passion, and no matter which
direction you want Montclair to go next, our town’s history
has something for you. That’s what we’ll explore over the next
60-odd pages. We hope you enjoy.
—Kevin Meacham, editor
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A town on the move, since 1868

by MIKE FARRELLY
for Montclair Local

There were naysayers when my wife

and I decided to stay in Montclair in the
1970s. We met at Montclair State in 1968.
There had been race riots in Newark. Ra-
cial issues in Montclair were unsettled,
especially in the schools, which were
struggling to overcome years of segre-
gation. Downtown businesses were suf-
fering from competition with the malls,
just as most downtowns were. There
were restaurants that people loved: the
Wedgewood Cafeteria, Gabe’s Galley, the
Georgian Inn, and the Marlboro Inn, but
Montclair was hardly the food mecca that
it has become. Storefronts were filled with
antique dealers. Some people said that too
many antique stores was a sign that there
would never be any improvement. People
questioned our decision to live here.
Montclair did not stagnate. School seg-
regation was ended with the advent of
the magnet school system in 1977. Sears,
Hahnes, and many other stores never
came back. They were replaced by high-
end specialty stores and restaurants.
Montclair has become a destination spot. COURTESY MONTCLAIR PUBLIC LIBRARY ARCHIVES
That is the point! Montclair has problems
The Bloomfield Avenue Transportation Horse Drawn Fire Apparatus, seen circa 1890.
just like any other American city, but the
people here overcome their differences
and get things done. The people of Mont- frastructure when these “newcomers,” as
clair will never let this town become a they were called, arrived. There were only
relic. They will never let it become ghost a handful of roads, no hospitals and just
town. They have always kept it moving a few schools. Every family had its own
forward. well. There was no public water supply,
no sewer system and no fire department.
IT BEGINS WITH TRAINS There were a few elected constables, but
One hundred and fifty years ago the no police department. Legal matters were
people of West Bloomfield (a political handled by a few regularly elected justices
sub-division of Bloomfield) wanted a of the peace.
second railroad to open up the north end The “old timers” were content to live
of town. The citizens of Bloomfield were their lives in much the same way their
happy with the railroad they already had parents and grandparents had always
and wanted no part of a new line. The lived. They were mostly self-sufficient
people of West Bloomfield appealed to farmers. Many of the newcomers came
the state legislature. On April 15, 1868, an from Newark and New York. They didn’t
act creating a new town was passed. West like the old dirt roads and slow pace of
Bloomfield was separated from Bloom- life. They wanted to improve the town, to
field and became Montclair. Bonds were make it more like the life that they knew
issued immediately and the second rail- in the cities.
road came into being. It started operation With the exception of Bloomfield Ave-
in 1871. The second railroad was a financial nue, which was owned by the Essex Coun-
disaster, but it brought more and more ty (Israel Crane had owned it before his
people into the area. Montclair slowly family turned it over to the county after
went from being a sleepy agricultural his death in 1858), the few roads that ex- COURTESY MONTCLAIR PUBLIC LIBRARY ARCHIVES
backwater, to being a dynamic suburb. The Elston M. Harrison store that was located at North Fullerton Avenue and Bloomfield
There was not much in the way of in- See HISTORY, E-8 Avenue, seen in a postcard published by New Jersey Post Card Company
Thursday, June 28, 2018 Montclair 150 Page E-7

celebration
MONTCLAIR TOWNSHIP. OPENING DOORS FOR 150 YEARS.
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In 1868, Montclair Township was established to secure accessibility to Montclair via train travel. One hundred and fifty years
later, accessibility is still at the heart of the Township. Long celebrated for its diversity, Montclair Township is a progressive and
welcoming home for people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, professions and aspirations—just as we are for our 21,000 students.

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History
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isted were simply dirt and mud.
Bloomfield Avenue had been sur-
faced with stone. If potholes de-
veloped in the dirt thoroughfares,
they were filled in with more dirt
from the side of the road. It of-
ten washed out. The newcomers,
many of whom still worked in the
cities, rode their carriages to the
train station and commuted to
work. They needed better roads
to ensure that they made it to the
train on time. By popular vote, it
was decided to cover the old roads
with gravel. Just as today, there
were disagreements. Some people
thought Little Falls gravel was the
best. Others thought that Caldwell
gravel was superior. There wasn’t
enough money to cover all the
streets at once. There were argu-
ments about which roads should be
done first. Montclair citizens have
never walked in lockstep, but we
respect each other as we work out
our differences and move ahead.
WALK MONTCLAIR?
One of the first things the new-
comers insisted on, even before
fire and police protection, was
sidewalks. Many of them walked
to work, or to the train station.
They objected to trudging through
the mud and dust. The state legis-
lature passed a special act in 1869
which divided Montclair into four
sidewalk districts. Each district
was pretty much a law unto itself.
Homeowners in each district pe-
titioned to have sidewalks built in
front of their property. The folks
that signed the petition provided
the bulk of the money to build the
walks. But properties that abutted
that land and property across the
street were also assessed. That was
the problem. In the 1870s, there
were often large gaps between
houses. The owners of the vacant
properties, and the owners who
didn’t have sidewalks directly in
front of their houses, objected to
paying for them. To save money,
sidewalks were made of wooden
planks and there were huge gaps.
Of course, the wood began to de-
cay. It became dangerous to tra-
verse these crumbling boardwalks,
Montclair 150
especially at night, because there
were no street lights. In 1882, the
state legislature transferred the
responsibility for sidewalks from
private citizens to the town. Grad-
ually, the town put in flagstone
sidewalks.
Streetlights were the next issue.
Montclair citizens did not wait for
the town to put lamps in. In 1871,
they went to the state legislature
and asked for permission to incor-
porate a gas company. The Mont-
clair Gas and Water Company
came into existence. They issued
stock in the amount of $25,000
and started making gas (from coal)
and laying down gas mains. In
1876, the company asked the town-
ship committee for permission to
assess homeowners in the vicinity
of the gas mains. Once again, dis-
agreements and objections were
raised. The gas was turned off for
the next five years. In 1881, the
township committee proposed a
study to determine whether it was
“legal” to continue putting street
lighting in. In March of that year,
$1,000 was appropriated to light
Bloomfield Avenue, the first of
many appropriations.
THE FIRE BRIGADE
In January 1878, a small fire
started in the basement of the
“Jacobus Building” at Church
Street and South Fullerton Ave-
nue. A bucket brigade was formed,
but there weren’t enough peo-
ple to get water from the stream
300 feet away in time to save the
building. The township offices,
Edward Madison’s original book-
store and the relatively new offices
of the Montclair Times were de-
stroyed. Damages were estimated
to be $50,000. People began to talk
about starting a fire department.
Nothing much came of these dis-
cussions until 1882 when Thorn-
dyke Saunders’ house on South
Mountain burned to the ground.
His neighbor, James Ogilvie, and a
banker named Charles Schott had
had enough. Charles was the type
of person who was quick to act on
the things he felt were right. They
called for a meeting. Mr. Schott
did not ask for a vote. He simply
informed the people in attendance
that they were the nucleus of a
See HISTORY, E-10
Thursday, June 28, 2018
COURTESY MONTCLAIR PUBLIC LIBRARY ARCHIVES
Montclair before Montclair:
a brief history
by MIKE FARRELLY
for Montclair Local
There is evidence that there have been people in this area for about 14,000 years.
These “paleo-indians” became the Lenni Lenape, their words for “the original peo-
ple.” It was a commonly held belief that they had been here the longest.
They had no permanent villages in Montclair, although they traveled through the
area for thousands of years. Artifacts have been found in several area places, including
near the stream which powered Wheeler’s Mill where Glenfield School now stands.
Every year the Unami (the Lenni Lenape clan that called this area home) migrated
between winter hunting grounds in Western New Jersey and summer farming lands
near bays and the ocean. They were dependent on shellfish, which they consumed
before using the shells as money.
The Lenni Lenape alternately traded with and fought with the Dutch when the latter
arrived in the early 1600s. In protest of terrible treatment, they drove the Dutch out of
New Jersey twice in the 17th century. But then they were conquered by the Iroquois.
The Iroquois wanted to continue trade between themselves and the Swannuken (“Salt
Water People”). As a subjugated people, the Lenni Lenape were ordered to sell their
land to the Europeans. There were essentially no Indians left in New Jersey by 1740.
Originally the Dutch claimed all of New York, New Jersey and Delaware. Their cap-
ital, New Amsterdam was overtaken by the English in 1664 and renamed New York.
This part of New Jersey was governed by Philip Carteret, who wanted to start a colony
here. He offered land at very good prices. That is when the Dutch, who had pro-
claimed allegiance to the English king, moved away from the deep water harbors and
started to pour into New Jersey. They built first in Bergen County and moved south
from there.
A group of English settlers from New Haven were upset that their colony had been
merged with the Connecticut Colony. They approached the governor about buying
a tract along the Passaic River. It became known as Newark. The first buildings were
erected where Broad and Market streets are now. Their children and grandchildren
started building homes to the north and to the west of the town. In 1700, the Cranes
and other English families started building houses in Montclair. At almost the same
time, the Speers and other Dutch families were moving south from Passaic County.
The environment that existed in Montclair when it started to become a suburb in
1868 included English farmers and businessmen in the south end of town, Dutch farm-
ers in the north end of town.
Watchung Avenue was the dividing line.
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History
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new fire department. Hook and Ladder

Company #1 was formed a week later. Mr.
Schott was the first chief. Subscriptions
were sold. The company bought a (hu-
man powered) fire engine. It carried lad-
ders, axes, fire extinguishers and buckets
(pumpers weren’t used until the water
company started installing fire hydrants
in 1887). It came with an extra pole, so
horses could be used to pull it, if the crew
wanted to use them. The town did not be-
come involved until 1884. Chief Schott
offered the services of the company to
the township committee. They adapted it
as the cornerstone of their new Fire De-
partment in 1885. It remained largely a
volunteer fire department until the 1890s.
Drivers were paid because of the skill they
needed to handle the horses. The first full-
time, paid firemen were hired in 1902.

A FEW BIG DEALS

There is no way to talk about all the
things Montclairites have been able to ac-
complish, so here are a few:
Montclair had a few physicians, but no
hospital, until Margaret Jane Powers and
a small group of local women organized
Mountainside Hospital in 1890. Marga-
ret had watched a child fall from an upper
story window on Bloomfield Avenue. She
was distraught that the child had to be put
on a wagon and taken to the nearest hos-
pital, miles away in Orange. They rented a
small house on Bay Street and convinced
Dr. John J. H. Love to become the first
chief of staff in 1891.
Montclair resident William Evans,
merchant and noted art collector, prom-
ised to donate 24 works of art to the town.
He eventually increased the offer to 54
paintings and two sculptures. Howev-
er, there was a stipulation that the pieces
were to be housed in a fireproof build-
ing. The Municipal Art Commission was
formed to accept the art, but the towns-
people voted down the proposition to
build the building. Another local resident,
Florence Rand Lang, donated $50,000
and spearheaded a prominent group of
patrons who founded the Montclair Art
Museum in 1914. These are the kind of
people who have made Montclair what it
is today.
William Dickson was a steel magnate
who had a huge house on Llewellyn Av-
enue. He was a founder of the Llewellyn
Chamber Ensemble. They practiced and
performed in the “ballroom” wing of his
COURTESY MONTCLAIR PUBLIC LIBRARY ARCHIVES
The early Montclair Fire Department fights a fire on Walnut Street.
house. The Ensemble evolved into the
Montclair Orchestra; then in 1922, into
the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. In
2016 a group of Montclairites re-estab-
lished the Montclair Orchestra. David
Chan, violinist and concertmaster of the
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, has been
chosen as its first musical director. Mont-
clair remains a vibrant hub and one of the
cultural centers of New Jersey.
Mike Farrelly is Montclair’s township histo-
rian.
MAJOR SOURCES:
Goodell, Edwin B. , Montclair, “The
Evolution of a Suburban Town,” The Ed-
ward Madison Company, Montclair, 1934
Whittimore, Henry, “History of Mont-
clair Township, State of New Jersey; In-
cluding the History of the Families who
have been Identified with its Growth and
Prosperity, The Suburban Publishing
Company, N.Y. ,” 1894
Carlisle, Robert D. B. , “A Jewel in the
Suburbs; The History of the Montclair Art
Museum,” Published by the MAM, 1982
COURTESY MONTCLAIR PUBLIC LIBRARY ARCHIVES
And too many other sources to list
here. A group portrait of patients at Mountainside Hospital on the Sun Deck, circa 1937.
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How Montclair got its name
The community of Montclair was
first called “Wachung” or “Wacht-
schunk” by the Lenni Lenape Indians.
This term meant “mountain” and refers
to the First Watchung Mountain. The
area was also called “Watsessing” or
“Wardesson” meaning “crooked.”
In the early 1700s, settlers from
Connecticut purchased a stretch of
land from the Passaic River to the First
Watchung Mountain. This purchase
included what is now Montclair.
However, the area south of what is now
Watchung Avenue was called Crane-
town after the Crane family.
In the northern part of what is now
Montclair, the Speer family formed a
community with several other Dutch
families. They called their community
Speertown. Speertown was a small
part of the area that the Lenape called
“Haquequenunck” or “Aquackanonck.”
In 1812 Cranetown and Speertown
were joined and called “West Bloom-
field.”
In 1860 residents of West Bloomfield
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Another Saturday night...

Montclair has
always been
entertaining
by GWEN OREL
orel@montclairlocal.news

Since its founding in 1868, Montclair

has always been interested in entertain-
ment. What to do on a Saturday night has
changed over the years, but perhaps not
as much as you might think. In fact, some
of the buildings and institutions towns-
people enjoy today have been around a
long time. Some, like the Wellmont The-
ater, have been repurposed. The Bellev-
ue Theater, at the time of this writing, is
about to be repurposed too. Today, Mont-
clair is home to a film festival and liter-
ary festival, an orchestra, an art museum,
and much more. This is a round-up of
some of Montclair’s greatest hits over the
past 150 years. What do you love to do on
a Saturday night? Write to us at culture@
montclairlocal.news and let us know!
AT HOME AND MORE
IN THE 19TH CENTURY
In the 1880s, a lot of entertainment
took place in the home. Parlor entertain-
ment included games of whist, amateur
musicals, dinner parties and charades,
and people loved to gather around the pi-
ano. But, as they do today, cultural events
took place in houses of worship. In the
First Presbyterian Church chapel, built in
1883, which used to be on Church Street,
concerts and lectures were held. Also, as
today, performances were also held at the
Montclair Public Library, founded in 1893.
Clubs sprang up and included the Mont-
clair Lawn Tennis Club (1885), an Eques-
trian Club (1876), a walking club (1879),
the Ladies Vocal Club and an archery club.
Picnics, sleighing and sledding were all
popular as Montclair was still very rural.
A roller skating rink opened in 1885.
SEE WHAT’S ON AT THE
MONTCLAIR CLUB
In the 1880s, 1890s and 1900s, people
often stopped into The Montclair Club,
which was organized on Oct. 15, 1887. The
club was only for men, but families could
use it on Mondays. The Love property on
Church Street was purchased for the club,
A postcard shows the front of the Montclair Art Museum in the early 20th century. MAM opened in 1914 thanks in part to generous dona-
tions from artistically inclined residents.
and the clubhouse was built in 1888. The
club hall was used for community theater
productions, lectures, and musical events
sponsored by the club or outside organi-
zations.
The Montclair Club held art exhib-
its featuring artists from the Montclair
Art Colony. Many of the clubs that be-
came popular in Montclair were formed
by members of the Montclair Club, in-
cluding the Montclair Athletic Club and
the Montclair Dramatic Club. The club
disbanded in 1924, and the building was
razed.
HAVE A BEER
Montclairites have been able to buy a
beer at Tierney’s Tavern since 1934. Tier-
ney’s has the only liquor license to stay
in one family since it was issued; the bar
was built right after Prohibition ended in
1933. Before prohibition ended, Tierney’s
operated in the basement of a candy shop
owned by the family across the street.
Tierney’s also has one of the town’s oldest
stages. While Saturday nights range from
cover bands, to blues, disco, country, and
rock, the owners have formed a soft spot
for bands emulating the eclectic and easy
listening influences of the Grateful Dead,
a preference made clear when you hear
30-year venue veterans The Fabulous
Flemtones. On any given day, you can
find a Tierney in the kitchen or at the bar.
For the past five years, Tierney’s Tavern
has held a free all-day music festival the
weekend after Memorial Day. Other plac-
es to have a glass of wine include Egan &
Sons, The Office, Pig & Prince, Just Jake’s,
Trumpets Jazz Club and Restaurant, and
DLV Lounge.
LOOK AT ART
The Montclair Art Museum opened
its doors in 1914 as an outgrowth of the
Montclair Art Colony, which included
such artists as Harry Fenn, Frederick
Waugh and William Cooper, and The
Montclair Art Association, founded in
1910, which included a generous gift of 36
paintings from William Evans, matched
by a $50,000 donation from Florence
Rand Lang. MAM’s initial purchases of
historic and contemporary American art
established an acquisition process that
continues to this day. The museum was
COURTESY MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM
one of the country’s first museums pri-
marily engaged in collecting American
art (including the work of contemporary,
nonacademic artists) and among the first
dedicated to the study and creation of a
significant Native American art collec-
tion. An art school opened in 1924, just 10
years after the museum opened. Marga-
ret Tyler Yard also founded an art school
in 1927. Yard was a leading figure in teach-
ing art to the handicapped. The schools
merged in 1999, and now the Yard School
of Art is at MAM. MAM is the New Jersey
affiliate of the Scholastic Art & Writing
Awards. Since 2012, on the first Thursday
of every month from September to June,
MAM opens its doors for free from 5 to 9
p.m. Guided tours of the exhibitions are
available, and there is live music.
Studio Montclair Inc. is a mem-
ber-driven organization founded in 1996
when five Montclair artists felt the need
to mount an exhibit echoing the famous
Salon des Refusés in Paris of 1863. The
focus of the organizers was to showcase
the work of local artists who were not
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included in the Montclair Art Museum’s
February 1997 exhibit, “The Montclair Art
Colony Past and Present.” The group in-
corporated in 1997. Today, they have more
than 400 members worldwide. In 2017,
Studio Montclair, which had exhibited in
different spaces around town, opened its
own gallery space at 127 Bloomfield Ave.
Other opportunities to see art include
the biannual Art Walks, produced by the
Montclair Business Improvement Dis-
trict, in which stores downtown display
art; exhibitions at the Montclair Public
Library, and in such galleries as 73 See
Gallery at 73-C Pine St.
CATCH A CONCERT
Unity Institute was founded by Dr. Ed-
gar S. Wiers, minister of Unity Church
(Unitarian Church of Montclair) in 1920
to provide cultural programs to Mont-
clair, and was operated by the church un-
til January 1982. The first program of the
Institute was the Unity Concert Course,
which brought in top classical music per-
formers beginning in October 1920. Uni-
ty Concerts then became Unity Concerts
of New Jersey. The Unity Travel Course,
featuring illustrated travel lectures and
films, was begun in 1923. The Chamber
Music series began in 1939. Singers from
the Metropolitan Opera company often
performed including fiddle virtuoso Isaac
Stern who performed in 1992. Unity Con-
certs continued until 2000.
Outpost in the Burbs was founded as a
“coffeehouse,” a term from the 1960s and
’70s when where people passed the hat
for donations for performers, and drew
people in. Originally, Outpost was a min-
istry of First Congregational Church, or-
ganized by a group of young people who
met at FCC, to inspire more of their peers
to gather. The organization typically
hosts acoustic musicians, with favorites
from past eras, such as Roger McGuinn
and Judy Collins, and up-and-coming
singer-songwriters such as Valerie June
and Anais Mitchell. Community service
is part of the Outpost’s mission. It works
with Habitat for Humanity, Community
Foodbank of New Jersey, Soup Kitchen
Workdays and the Human Needs Food
Pantry. The name “Outpost” was selected
because it suggests a place that offers hos-
pitality to those exploring the frontiers
of their own lives and of society. In 2001,
Outpost broke its official ties with FCC to
become a not-for-profit entity.
A postcard of Wellmont Theatre (before it changed its name to the Wellmont Theater in
2013), published by the Edward Madison Company. Date unknown.
GEORGE FRENCH/MONTCLAIR PUBLIC LIBRARY ARCHIVES
The familiar exterior of the Bellevue Theatre, as seen in 1935.
The Wellmont Theater presents live
music, as do several bars in town, includ-
ing Ruthie’s Bar-B-Q, Tierney’s Tavern,
Just Jake’s and DLV Lounge.
GO TO A MOVIE
Montclair always loved the movies.
The Montclair Theater, a vaudeville and
silent movie house opened in 1913. The
Wellmont, the Bellevue and the Clairidge
all opened in 1922.
Thomas Edison watched movies at the
Wellmont, and screenings were accom-
panied by a pianist who played the the-
ater’s Wurlitzer pipe organ. The name is
a combination of the theater manager,
H.H. Wellenbrick, and the town of Mont-
clair. The “talkies” grew so popular that
The Wellmont added sound sync equip-
ment in 1929. In “Cheaper by the Dozen,”
Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth
Carey recall going to a movie at the Well-
mont with his father and siblings when
he was growing up from the turn of the
century in Montclair through his father’s
COURTESY MONTCLAIR PUBLIC LIBRARY ARCHIVES
death in 1924.
“Cheaper by the Dozen” is the Mont-
clair Public Library’s first community
read. The library presented Frank Gil-
breth Jr.’s son Peter this past May, and
screenings of the movies based on the
novel.
Today’s Montclairites can catch con-
certs, key films and events from the
Montclair Film Festival at the Wellmont.
The Bellevue opened with D.W. Grif-
fith’s “Orphans of the Storm,” starring
Lillian Gish. The theater, with its dis-
tinctive Tudor-style exposed beams and
slate roof, even an indoor balcony and a
second-floor tea room, was the object of
attention among architectural experts
of the day, according to local historian
Lisanne Renner. The theater was built
by Robert Anderson, whose family had
donated the land for nearby Anderson
Park. The theater closed in November
2017 after a final showing of “The Rocky
Horror Picture Show,” which had been a
staple at the theater presented by Home
Parker Bowles, Vincent Onorati and Pat-
rick Wilson are in talks with owner Jesse
Sayegh to reopen the venue with a bar and
restaurant.
The Montclair Film Festival (MFF) de-
buted in 2012, and has grown steadily. Its
2018 festival ran for 11 days, attracting
26,000 people, and presented the innova-
tive performer Taylor Mac. In 2017, MFF
renamed itself Montclair Film, and also
opened their own space, Cinema505, at
505 Bloomfield Ave. TV host and comedi-
an Stephen Colbert, a Montclair resident,
is on its board. In addition to the yearly
festival in May, which presents movies,
talks and events, Montclair Film holds
classes and screenings and a new “StoryS-
LAM” during the year.
SEE LIVE THEATER
Montclairites always loved their live
performances, from charades in parlors
to the forming of local groups. The Mont-
clair Dramatic Club, founded in 1889 in
the home of W.L. Guillaudeu, present-
ed “Randall’s Thumb” by W.S. Gilbert as
its first production in the new Montclair
Town Club that year. The amateur group
performed two plays per year, and dis-
banded in the late 1980s or early 1990s.
Studio Players was founded in 1937 as an
outgrowth of the Montclair Dramatic
Club, according to The Glen Ridge Paper.
The younger members of Studio Players
wanted to try more experimental the-
ater. The company continues to this day,
presenting a full season of contemporary
comedies and drama and children’s plays
in its home at 14 Alvin Place, formerly a
laundry, where they have been located
since 1942. In 1973, Studio Players began
work on an addition to the original build-
ing. The current space includes a raised
stage and an auditorium of 140 seats. The
auditorium is named for Mary Yinger, a
woman who bequeathed money to the
Montclair Dramatic Club.
Essex Youth Theatre, a theater arts
school, is in residence in the lower level
of the building.
Those willing to travel to a neighboring
town could visit the Nutley Little Theatre,
founded in 1934, by a group of men con-
nected with the Grace Episcopal Church.
The group performed in the different
Nutley schools, rehearsing in The Barn
on Erie Place. It began holding perfor-
mances as benefits for the American Red
Cross and hospitals in the 1940s. In 1976,
the group converted the barn to a perfor-
mance space. Many Montclair actors per-
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form in the long-standing community
theater, which presents mostly contem-
porary work.
Olympia Dukakis and her husband,
the late Louis Zorich, and 10 other cou-
ples founded the Whole Theater Compa-
ny in 1971, a professional, Equity compa-
ny presenting contemporary drama and
comedy that drew critics and patrons
from all over the Tri-State area. Its first
production was Thornton Wilder’s “Our
Town,” performed in the basement of
the First Baptist Church. Whole Theater
Company purchased their theater, a con-
verted bank, in 1976. Olympia Dukakis’
Academy Award for her role in the movie
“Moonstruck” gave the company added
cachet. Unfortunately, due to financial
troubles, the company closed in 1990.
While Whole Theater no longer ex-
ists, Montclairites can still see theater at
Luna Stage, founded by Jane Mandel and
Frankie Faison. It moved to West Orange
in 2009, where it presents contemporary
drama and new musicals, including world
premieres.
Peak Performances, located on the
campus of Montclair State University,
was founded in 2005 with the mission
of bringing internationally acclaimed
artists and productions to the state-of-
the-art Alexander Kasser Theater, built
in 2004. Since then, it has presented such
artists as South African director Robyn
Orlin, British choreographer Wayne Mc-
Gregor, and American geniuses jazz com-
poser Fred Hersch, choreographer Bill T.
Jones, and environmental theater pioneer
Richard Schechner, among others. Peak
Performances also partners with MSU’s
College of the Arts’ Department of The-
atre and Dance and the John J. Cali School
of Music to present concerts and shows
in the 500-seat house.
SEE A MUSICAL OR OPERA
Montclair Operetta Club was found-
ed in 1925 with the mission to perform
the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan;
the club’s first production was “The Pi-
rates of Penzance.” The Club has always
been run by amateurs. Like many other
arts organizations in town, it grew out
of like-minded members of a church: in
this case some members at Union Con-
COURTESY MIKE PETERS
The Kasser Theater at Montclair State Uni-
versity is home to Peak Performances.
gregational Church wanted to perform
“Pirates.” The show was well received, and
the club continued to perform Gilbert
and Sullivan until 1929, when it expand-
ed its repertoire to include contemporary
musicals. In 1936, the club hired its first
professional performer, and in 1953, it
presented its first Broadway musical,
“Brigadoon.” Although the club is run by
amateurs, it does hire professional direc-
tors, choreographers, musical directors
and designers.
It has rehearsed and built scenery at
its space at 494 Valley Road since 1950.
From 1930 to spring 2003, the club per-
formed at Mount Hebron School (now
Buzz Aldrin Middle School). For the next
four seasons it performed at Memorial
Auditorium on the campus of MSU. Since
2007, the club has been resident at West-
minster Arts Center in Bloomfield.
Opera Theatre of Montclair was
founded in 2013 by Mia Riker-Norrie, a
Montclair resident. At first, the compa-
ny performed fundraising concerts, and
performed on Church Street on Satur-
days in the summer during the Montclair
Business Improvement District’s Center
Stage. It presented its first full produc-
tion in 2015, with a production of “Nab-
ucco,” by Giuseppe Verdi, in the Unitarian
Universalist Congregation at Montclair.
Beginning in March 2014, the compa-
ny began touring an abridged version of
Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” as part of its
education initiative to schools, librar-
ies, churches and senior centers. It also
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performs previews and family-friendly
productions outside at Van Vleck House
& Gardens. To date, it has presented four
full productions of operas in different
spaces. Its 2017 production of “La Ce-
nerentola (Cinderella)” by Rossini was
presented at the United Way building on
South Fullerton Avenue.
HEAR CLASSICAL MUSIC OR JAZZ
The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
grew out of organizations based in Mont-
clair. The Llewellyn Ensemble formed in
1916, performing concerts at the home
of William Dickson on Llewellyn Road.
In 1920, a group of musicians from St.
Luke’s Episcopal Church formed the
Montclair Orchestra. In 1922, the groups
merged to perform a concert at the Mont-
clair Art Museum, and eventually became
the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra,
now based in Newark.
In 2017, a new Montclair Orchestra was
born. Founded by local resident André
Weker, with conductor David Chan, who
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is also the concertmaster of the Metro-
politan Opera orchestra. The Montclair
Orchestra is a mix of professionals from
such orchestras including the NJSO and
the New York Philharmonic, highly qual-
ified amateurs, and students from The
Juilliard School, the John J. Cali School of
Music, Mannes School of Music, Manhat-
tan School of Music, and Mason-Gross
School for the Arts. The orchestra com-
pleted its first season in 2018, performing
five concerts in different venues around
Montclair, including MSU, St. Luke’s
Episcopal Church and Immaculate Con-
ception Roman Catholic Church.
For jazz, Montclair has several op-
tions. Trumpets Jazz Club and Restau-
rant was founded in 1985, and shows jazz
nightly. Jazz and R&B can be heard at
the DLV lounge on Bloomfield Avenue.
Drummer and jazz musician Bruce Tyler
ran the Montclair Jazz and Blues Festival
from 1986 to 2000.
Jazz House Kids was founded by sing-
er Melissa Walker and her husband, bass
player and Grammy award-winner Chris-
tian McBride, in 2002 to offer educational
and cultural programs for children. JHK
offers classes year round, including some
classes for adults. Its faculty is made up
ages
of professional musicians, who also per-
form with JHK in underserved New Jersey
schools, offering free programming and
mentorship. Student ensembles include
the Jazz House Big Band, a pre-profes-
sional group that has sent members to
study music at such schools as The Juil-
liard School, Northwestern University,
Manhattan School of Music, and Oberlin
College.
In August 2010 Jazz House Kids pre-
sented the first free Montclair Jazz Festi-
val in Nishuane Park. That semi-private
festival presented JHK faculty who had
been teaching in the summer program,
with a makeshift stage. Since then the
Jazz Festival has grown to be a signifi-
cant event that attracts visitors from all
over. The eighth annual festival in 2017
brought about 12,000 people, the largest
crowd ever, to Nishuane Park to see head-
liners and student bands perform on two
stages for nine hours. Performers includ-
ed Dee Dee Bridgewater, Louis Prima Jr. ,
Cyrus Chestnut, student bands and oth-
ers. The 2018 Montclair Jazz Festival will
take place on Saturday, Aug. 11.
IN THIS ARTICLE
While some of the entertainment ven-
ues are no more, some still exist: here’s
the list:
• Montclair Literary Festival, suc-
ceed2gether.org/montclair-literary-fes-
tival
• Tierney’s Tavern, 136-138 Valley
Road, tierneystavern.com
• Egan & Sons, 118 Walnut St. , ega-
nandsons.com
• The Office, 619 Bloomfield Ave.
• Just Jake’s, 30 Park St. , justjakes.com
• Trumpets Jazz Club and Restaurant, 6
Depot Square, trumpetsjazz.com
• DLV Lounge, 300 Bloomfield Ave. ,
Facebook.com/thed-l-v-lounge
• Montclair Art Museum, 3 South
Mountain Ave. , montclairartmuseum.
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• Studio Montclair Inc. , 137 Bloomfield
Ave. , studiomontclair.org
• 73 See Gallery, 73 C Pine St. , 73seegal-
lery.com
• Outpost in the Burbs, 40 South Ful-
lerton Ave. , outpostintheburbs.org
• Ruthie’s Bar-B-Q, 64 Chestnut St. ,
ruthiesbbq.com
• The Wellmont Theater, 5 Seymour
St. , wellmonttheater.com
• The Clairidge Cinema, 486 Bloom-
field Ave. , bowtiecinemas.com
• Montclair Film, 505 Bloomfield Ave. ,
montclairfilm.org
• Studio Players, 14 Alvin Place, studio-
playhouse.org
• Essex Youth Theater, 14 Alvin Place,
essexyouththeater.com
• Nutley Little Theatre, 47 Erie Place,
Nutley, nutleylittletheatre.com
• Luna Stage, 555 Valley Road, West Or-
ange, lunastage.org
• Peak Performances, 1 Normal Ave.
(on campus of MSU), peakperfs.org
• Montclair Operetta Club, 494 Valley
Road, mocmusicals.org
• Opera Theatre of Montclair, opera-
montclair.org
• Montclair Orchestra, montclai-
rorchestra.org
• Jazz House Kids, 347 Bloomfield
Ave. , jazzhousekids.org
SOURCES: Jazzhousekids.org; “Abrupt
Closing of a Leading Theater Is Jolt to Arts
Groups,” The New York Times, May 27, 1990;
Montclairfilm.org; Montclairorchestra.
org; Nutley Little Theatre; “Montclair’s
Studio Players Makes Community with
Theater,” The Montclair Times, June 6, 2013;
Operamontclair.org; Outpostintheburbs.
org; Peakperfs.org; Schmidt, Carl; Shepard,
Elizabeth; and Farrelly, Mike, “Legendary
Locals of Montclair.” Arcadia: 2013; The
Montclair Times, Nov. 23, 1929; Tierney, Dan;
Urbanelli, Lora; Wellmonttheater.com.
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The story of one of Montclair’s earliest homes

by JAIMIE JULIA WINTERS
winters@montclairlocal.news

A small, nondescript clapboard home with an extraor-

dinary history has stood at 369 Claremont Ave. since
1780. Built by William Crane, it may have been one of the
first homes, maybe to house slaves. And the house was
there when General George Washington may have set
up temporary headquarters on the corner of Valley Road
and the Old Road, now Claremont Avenue, which is why
it may have been called the “George Washington Wayside
Home” by many. But more importantly, the home was
bequeathed to James Howe, the first freed slave in Mont-
clair, and is now known as the “Freed Slave House,” said
local historian and architect Frank Godlewski.
Howe was purchased by Maj. Nathaniel Crane, one of
the descendants of Montclair’s founding family, in 1813
for $50. In fact, Montclair was first known as Cranetown,
according to Godlewski.
Whether Crane had other slaves is unclear. As para-
phrased in C.G. Watkins’ 1908 book “Reminiscences of
Montclair,” Crane’s 1831 will suggests that Howe was a
survivor of former slaves of the family. In the will, Crane
freed Howe and left him the house, five acres of his “best
land” and $400.
Watkins quotes early historian Philip Doremus, who
describes how Crane “made provision for his old colored
servant, James Howe, who was a survivor of the former
slaves of the family and was known as Uncle Jim. He gave
COURTESY FRANK GODLEWSKI
him a good tract of land on the north side of Clairmont
[sic] Avenue running west from North Mountain Ave- This home at 369 Claremont Ave. is considered one of the oldest homes in Montclair. It could be over 220 years old, and was
owned by the first freed slave in Montclair.
nue, where he lived many years. A part of the house he
occupied is still standing. As children, we used to enjoy
visiting the old man who had become blind, and listening that she and her husband bought it from the Olivers in mark house still stands.
to his stories of our ancestry. Major Nathaniel Crane had 1904. The author of the article notes that the Welshes The Crane House, owned by James Howe’s former
no children and made the West Bloomfield Presbyterian renovated the house, but kept many of the original fea- master, now houses the Montclair History Center after
Church the residuary legatee of his estate, which amount- tures, such as the beehive oven and large hearth fireplace the building was saved from the wrecking ball and moved
ed to about ten thousand dollars. This fund requires it to with a crane intact. According to the article, the house to Orange Road in the 1960s. The Federal-style mansion
be held in trust by the church and the annual income to be was sided with hemlock clapboard. The shingles you see was built 20 years after the signing of the Declaration
used in support of the gospel in this church.” today were added in a later renovation, using the firm of Independence when Montclair was still known as
Holding slaves was commonplace in New Jersey until and sound clapboard as a base. There is some speculation Cranetown. The original owner of the home was Crane, a
1866, when the adoption of the 13th Amendment made it that the small wing in the back may pre-date the larger prominent merchant with ties to the cotton industry and
unlawful. In 1690 nearly all the inhabitants of northern two-story wing that faces Claremont Avenue.” an owner of slaves. Nathaniel Crane Jr.’s home is now the
New Jersey owned slaves, according to slavenorth.com. In 2013, the New York Times reported that the home gift shop.
Most of the members of the founding Crane family held was a rental property belonging to Robert Van Dyk. Before the move when it still was on Glenridge Avenue
slaves as did the Speer family, who owned much of Upper “Van Dyk also owns an adjacent nursing home and ex- in the 1910s, Crane’s mansion became the Trinity Pres-
Montclair. pressed an interest in donating the structure to the Mont- byterian Mission, for blacks who left Virginia and North
Howe and his wife Susan lived in the home on Cla- clair Historical Society [behind the Crane Mansion], free- Carolina in search of better lives in this northern suburb.
remont Avenue until they died, passing the house on to ing up the land for a more substantial, lucrative structure In 1920, it became the African-American YWCA where
their son Henry. than the 800 square foot James Howe House, which cur- classes were held to teach women and girls etiquette and
The house is important piece of Montclair’s history, rently houses a mother and her young son,” writes Stacey reading and writing. W. E. B. DuBois, Langston Hughes
said Jane Eliasof, the Executive Director of the Montclair Patton, history professor at Montclair State University. and Booker T. Washington also spoke there. For a while
Historical Society. Descendants of James Howe became farm real es- in the early 1920s, the upper attic of the building was a
“Because of its history, the house became known as the tate developers with the Crane Family and were among dormitory for black female students who could not live
‘Freed Slave House.’ Francis and Mary Oliver, also Afri- the founders of Llewellyn Park in 1850, Godlewski said. on Montclair State University’s campus because of their
can American according to census data, bought the house Llewellyn Park, originally extending from Llewellyn race, said Godlewski.
from the Howe family, most likely in the 1840s. It stayed Road in Montclair’s South End, was America’s first gated After pushback from the community who wanted the
in their family for 60 years,” writes Eliasof in 2013, when community, conceived for like-minded lovers of nature. house to remain where it was built, the Howe house was
fire struck the house. “In a 1933 Newark News article, The Stonebridge section preserves a remnant of the orig- never moved to what was then the Historical Society. Ten-
Blanton Welsh, the owner of the house at that time, states inal 1850 Llewellyn Park and the Llewellyn Haskell land- ants currently live in the home.
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Second life for Montclair gems

Greatest hits of
our repurposed
architectural
landmarks
by FRANK GERARD GODLEWSKI
for Montclair Local

Montclair is a triumphal legacy of ar-

chitecture and design, fittingly called in
1922, “the finest suburban town in the
United States… the splendid mountain-
side, which has inspired the architect and
the landscape artist to noble effort and
glorious achievement.” This patrimo-
ny of historic buildings, peeking out to
the New York City skyline, is what gives
Montclair its “signature” sense of place.
Many of Montclair’s significant land-
mark structures have been preserved
and recycled into today’s everyday life
through repurposing. “Repurposing”
is the adaptive reuse of structures that
have outlived their original function,
while maintaining their historic charac-
ter. It’s also considered a way to prevent
suburban sprawl from harming a town’s
desirable character. For a better under-
COURTESY FRANK GERARD GODLEWSKI
standing, and for the fun of it, here is
a virtual walking tour of some of the The razing of the 1878 Samuel Wilde House, located on South Fullerton Avenue, started Montclair’s historic preservation movement.
“Greatest Hits” of Montclair’s landmarks
and repurposed buildings. with the Carnegies.) Maher, the architect,
The 1878 Samuel Wilde House, by was a student of Frank Lloyd Wright. The
Crane family relative and architect Al- interiors were designed by Montclair’s
exander Jackson Davis, once stood on the Charles Van Vleck and entirely crafted
site of the Montclair Public Library and by Tiffany & Co. The town didn’t want it.
the Mills Foundation/United Way Build- It was considered too precious and fancy
ing. It was a neo-Gothic masterpiece, for public use. The property afterwards
similar to the National Trust’s Lyndhurst was purchased by celebrity minister
house museum on the Hudson River at Sweet Daddy Grace, who owned it from
Tarrytown, N.Y. , also by Davis. When the 1940s to the 1970s. Today, it is a beau-
it was razed in 1959, the question was tifully preserved private house.
raised…”why?” Many thought that the Down the hill on Church Street is the
fine Crane brownstone mansion should Prairie-style Carnegie Library designed
have been saved. It was then that the by California architect John G. Howard in
movement of preserving and repurpos- 1902. It has been repurposed as the annex
ing Montclair’s historic buildings began. of the Unitarian Church. The 1905 Uni-
The Gates Mansion on South Moun- tarian Church at 67 Church St. was de-
tain Avenue was left to the town to cre- signed by Architect W. Leslie Walker, the
ate a public library. Frederick Gates, the same architect who designed the Wom-
head of Standard Oil of New Jersey, and en’s Club of Montclair on Union Street.
the Rockefellers’ financial adviser, inten- Due to dwindling membership a couple
tionally built the house in 1902 for sever- of years ago, the Women’s Club building
al hundred thousand dollars to resemble risked demolition until a creative new COURTESY FRANK GERARD GODLEWSKI
a Carnegie Library for public use. (It was Mercedes LeBrun designed the landmark house Evergreens, which has been repurposed
an attempt for the Rockefellers to keep up See BUILDINGS, E-26 circa 2004.
Thursday, June 28, 2018 Montclair 150 Page E-25
Page E-26 Montclair 150 Thursday, June 28, 2018

Buildings
from page E-24

club president, Janet Oscar, revitalized

the membership and restored the inte-
riors into a fine self-sustaining rentable,
community space. Another landmark,
the 1914 Carnegie public library Bellev-
ue Avenue Branch, designed by Francis
Nelson, also risked demolition until a
“friends’ foundation” was created that
saved the building thanks to a rich cul-
tural program.
The historic church complex next door
to the Unitarian Annex is the 1893 Swed-
ish Congregational Church. That, as well
as Old Munn’s Tavern, Montclair’s first
inn and post office built in 1802 (and
moved to its current Valley Road site in
1899) has been recently preserved by the
Shanghai Quartet Group. It is now re-
purposed as a fine atelier of music. The
1796 Federal & Greek Revival Style Israel
Crane House was also moved in 1965 from
its original location on Glenridge Ave-
nue, to its current site on Orange Road. It
had also served as the home of the Black
YWCA and is now the headquarters of
the Montclair History Center.
The Montclair Art Museum was de-
signed in 1913 by architect Robert Ran-
dolph Boss. The structure was preserved
and updated for modern use by Mont-
clair resident and master preservation
architect Richard Blinder of Blinder,
Beyer & Bell. His firm’s preservation
achievements include New York’s Grand
Central Station, The New York Public
Library, Ellis Island, Newark Penn Sta-
tion and much more. Across the street
at 8 South Mountain Ave. is the former
house of Mercedes LeBrun who designed
the landmark house Evergreens. LeBrun
designed the historic Metropolitan Life
Building of New York City on Madison
Square. His house has been repurposed
as a condo complex circa 2004. Architect
Richard Blinder headed the commission
to redesign of the Lackawanna Train Sta-
tion and the re-purposing of the historic
train sheds into a shopping mall in 1984.
Lackawanna Plaza, a state landmark
since 1973, was designed in 1913 by Ar-
chitect Richard Botsford. It is considered
one of the finest historic train station
complexes in the United States. The fine
Beaux-Arts train terminal building is the
site of the fine Pig & Prince Restaurant.
Up on the hill is the Montclair Kim-
berley Academy Upper School Campus.
Although its historic Dudley Van An-
twerp-designed building has been de-
The 1926 Christian Science Church is now being transformed into “The Vault” and an office building.
molished, Montclair visionary Howard
Van Vleck, son of architect Charles Van
Vleck, came up with an original mas-
terpiece scheme for the redesign of the
new campus. Howard, a master garden-
er, preferred a naturalist vision for the
new school. Rather than a typical faux
colonial school-village he immortalized
Montclair’s beautiful natural landscape
with a modern stone building complex
that represents the cliffs of the First
Mountain Range. The buildings are set
before meandering green paths that face
the New York skyline and the Hudson
River. Across Bloomfield Avenue, on the
way to the Van Vleck mansion, is the 1836
James Howe House, known as the Freed
Slave House. James Howe, formerly a
slave, inherited the house and five acres
of Major Nathaniel Crane’s best land on
Upper Mountain Avenue.
The Van Vleck family most loved culti-
vating their gardens and magnificent col-
lections of trees and plants. The interior
of their 1916 limestone mansion is inten-
tionally plain for this reason. Paul Sion-
as, award-winning Montclair architect,
created the 1994 adaptive reuse project to
re-purpose the mansion for public use as
the Montclair Foundation for nonprofit
organizations.
Historic house fans are rejoicing at the
chic boutique hotel, The George, which
opened in 2018 as an adaptive reuse mas-
terpiece that repurposes Charles Van
Vleck’s 1902 house. Van Vleck was the ar-
chitect to the Rockefellers, Bloomingda-
le’s, B. Altman and Saks Fifth Avenue in
New York City. The project was achieved
by the collaboration of architect Paul
Sionas, developer Steve Plofker and his
wife Bobbi Brown, the world-famous
cosmetics and style genius. Under the su-
pervision of the Plofkers’s Willow Street
Partners, The George renovation project
recently won Montclair’s Historic Pres-
ervation Commission’s “Brick & Mortar
Award.” The project also includes the
re-purposing and moving of the carriage
house, which is a replica of the 1600s
Crane Homestead that once was on the
site and demolished a century ago.
Another project that Sionas did with
the Plofker group is Fullerton Green, an
adaptive reuse renovation of the histor-
ic 1875 Livermore House, a single-family
dwelling designed by Stanford White. It
had been converted into medical offic-
es with multi-family residential above.
Currently, the house is repurposed as
multi-family residential with attached
townhouses.
Sionas designed the preservation proj-
ect of the Wedgewood Building at 14-22
South Park Street in 2002. The building
was designed by Frank Grad Associates
in 1926. It was originally a post office and
then the renowned Wedgewood Cafe-
COURTESY FRANK GERARD GODLEWSKI
teria. The current use is for retail stores.
Another renowned Montclair establish-
ment renovated by the Sionas studio is
the Montclair Bread Company. Their oth-
er adaptive reuse projects include vintage
automotive warehouses and the 16 Label
St. Motor Vehicle Station. All have been
converted into loft spaces with a great
“Soho” feel. Also with this same great vin-
tage atmosphere is a 1920s Tudor build-
ing at 622 Valley Road in Upper Mont-
clair. Paul Sionas has recently done some
impressive adaptive reuse projects with
Bob Silver, historic building developer of
the Montclair-based Bravitas Group.
Bravitas had done Brassworks at 105
Grove St. , an adaptive reuse of a 1940s
Esso Service Station adjacent to the fam-
ily-owned George Rutledge Etched Brass
Works company. The current use is pro-
fessional offices. Greenworks is distin-
guished as being the first green commer-
cial building in Montclair and the first
Gold Core & Shell LEED certified build-
ing in the State of New Jersey. Bravitas
focuses on architecturally interesting
spaces through the adaptive reuse of ex-
isting, outmoded structures. The Bravitas
group also preserved the landmark 1930
Keil’s Pharmacy building. The complex,
now called “James Square,” is located in
Upper Montclair’s business district at
See BUILDINGS, E-28
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Buildings
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732-736 Valley Road. The Bravitas/Sion-
as team continue to proactively create
adaptive-reuse projects for Montclair’s
fine old characteristic buildings. Togeth-
er they have renovated the 1921 Harris
Department store for the Montclair Film
office at 505 Bloomfield Ave. Another
collaboration is GreenWorks, 100 Grove
St. , also a first green commercial com-
plex together with Brassworks.
Academy Square at 33 Plymouth St.
is an adaptive reuse project for the his-
toric 1906 Kimberley Academy/Katha-
rine Gibbs School. (The former Kimber-
ley School building on Valley Road, now
MKA’s middle school complex, was the
historic Montclair Athletic Club in the
1800s.)
The current use is professional offices.
The design team made certain to retain
the beautiful architectural features. The
building is also Gold LEED certified from
COURTESY FRANK GERARD GODLEWSKI the US Green Building Council.
The Crane House was moved to Orange Road and has been re-purposed as the Montclair Hillside Square at 8 Hillside Ave.
History Center. was adapted in 2012. The original con-
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The “Crane brownstone” Bangz build-
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Bangz has been converted into a salon
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Consistent with Montclair’s love for
culture, the 1921 Wellmont Theatre at
398-408 Bloomfield Ave. , was designed
in the Georgian Revival Style as a per-
forming arts center. The architects Reilly
& Hall originally conceived the theatre
for live productions. The Wellmont was
outfitted with one of the largest stages in
See BUILDINGS, E-29
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Buildings
from page E-28
the metropolitan area at the time. During
the early years, some of the greatest stars
of the age performed at the theater in-
cluding Tom Mix, Jackie Coogan, Richard
Barthelmess and Charlie Chaplin. Now
the Wellmont is a successful metropolitan
area performing arts center since 2015. It
has recently hosted artists like Tom Jones,
Lauryn Hill, Joan Baez, Bush, DNCE, Third
Eye Blind, Jim Gaffigan and Meat Loaf.
The Hinck building at 31 Church St. ,
one of Montclair’s favorite landmarks,
was designed by architect William Leh-
mann in 1921. It is a significant example
of Mission-style architecture and remi-
niscent of the Hotel Montclair that once
stood at the top of the mountain, now the
site of Rockcliffe Apartments. The com-
plex fills an important corner site at the
town center. The Clairidge Theater was one
of three silent movie theaters built in 1921
in downtown Montclair. This was the for-
mer site of the First Presbyterian Church,
an early Montclair landmark. The owner,
Dick Grabowsky, has repurposed the lob-
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YMCA, YWCA founded by prominent black leaders

by JAIMIE JULIA WINTERS
winters@montclairlocal.news

Montclair’s Young Men’s Christian As-

sociation and Young Women’s Christian
Association were both founded by lead-
ers in the African American community
to foster character, physical health and
intellect. In the early 1900s, as African
Americans sought out domestic jobs in
Montclair, the Ys offered them support
and camaraderie, and sometimes a place
to stay until settled.

YWCA
In the early 1900s, about 50 YWCAs
existed for African American women and
girls, all of them offshoots of white chap-
ters except one — the YWCA of Mont-
clair-North Essex in Montclair, founded
by Alice Hooe Foster, the first African
American alumna of Montclair High
School.
The Hooe family migrated to Montclair
from Virgina in 1874. The father, Charles
Hooe, was a gardener and his three sons
born in Virginia helped him grow the
business. After renting homes for a few
years, the family bought a home on Maple
Place where they lived with their 10 chil-
dren. The neighborhood was mixed with
Italians, Scottish and Swedish, said Betty
Holloway, resident, former teacher, edu-
cational consultant, historian and archi-
vist at St. Mark’s Church on Elm Street.
When the Hooes first moved to Mont-
clair the overall popula-
tion was 5,147, with the
African American pop-
ulation at about 180. By
1885, it was 280 and by
the 1900s the African
American population
had tripled as families
ALICE HOOE took advantage of find-
ing domestic work in
the large estates, said Holloway.
But the Hooe family had bigger
dreams. As her family acquired proper-
ty and moved into the news store busi-
ness, she was the first African American
to graduate from Montclair High School
in 1894. She went on to graduate from
Howard University and taught in Mar-
shallville, Ga. , for two years before re-
turning to Montclair to help with the new
family business, a newspaper store at 449
Bloomfield Ave. They were the first to of-
fer home newspaper delivery.
“The entire family worked at the store,”
The YMCA in the 1890s.
said Holloway.
The family was an energetic group of
entrepreneurs. The father also had a car-
pet laying business, and Alice and her
sister Grace owned a building with retail
and six residences at 415 Bloomfield Ave. ,
said Holloway. Grace Hooe was a book-
keeper most of her life.
In 1911, Alice Hooe married Wal-
ter Howard Foster whom she met at St.
Mark’s Church. Walter was an insurance
salesman. Alice was active in her commu-
nity and seeing the need for the growing
population of African American women
to be trained and supported, she founded
the Young Women’s Christian Associa-
tion in 1912. The women and young girls
received training in childcare, nursing
and dress making, said Holloway.
They soon outgrew the first location at
89 Forest St. The Crane House was bought
by the YWCA of Montclair-North Essex
to be used as the headquarters in 1920.
Although a group of white women
did assist in financing and incorporat-
ing the Montclair’s Y, it was the only one
in America not affiliated with a white
YWCA, according to the Montclair Histo-
ry Center.
Alice Hooe served on many commit-
tees including the Female Stars, the black
men’s YMCA committee, the NAACP
and the Women’s Educational Club and
the Inter-Racial Committee, whose pur-
pose was to foster a better understand-
ing between the races. She was part of
a group that sponsored a program with
Prof. Alain Locke, who was credited with
the Harlem Renaissance and was the first
black Rhodes Scholar.
“She wanted others to understand
there were different classes of African
Americans than just servants,” said Hol-
loway.
The YWCA was used for offices, dor-
mitories and as a social center for African
American women until 1965.
It became a safe, respectable place for
domestic servants to stay when they ar-
rived in Montclair looking for work and a
civic and social hub for African American
women. Says Carrie Allen McCray in her
book, “Freedom’s Child,” “When we were
young, the colored YWCA was located in a
wonderful old house known as the Crane
house. We knew every nook and cranny
of that old house, which wrapped itself
around us like a comforting blanket.”
COURTESY FRANK GERARD GODLEWSKI
Alice Hooe, who never had children,
retired as director in 1937 but continued
to work part time at the Y until her death
in 1940.
YMCA
The Montclair YMCA was formed out
of St. Mark’s Church, which wanted to
provide young black men with character,
physical health and intellect, according
to Frank Godlewski, who saved a collec-
tion of YMCA photographs from being
thrown away when the YMCA was be-
ing razed to make way for a school. The
church was the first to offer the first Bi-
ble study and Bible Vacation School for
young African Americans.
At the same time,
Charles Harmon Bull-
ock, a prominent leader
in the early 20th Centu-
ry Colored Young Men’s
Christian Association
movement, was creat-
ing YMCAs throughout
CHARLES the U.S and would later
BULLOCK serve as director of the
See YMCA, E-31
Thursday, June 28, 2018
YMCA
from page E-30
colored Y in Montclair from 1916 until his
retirement in 1935.
He was born in Charlottesville, Va. ,
in 1875, the son of former slaves Burkley
and Mary Washington Bullock. Charles
Bullock graduated as salutorian of his
class at Jefferson Normal School in 1892
and went on to became a teacher in the
segregated Charlottesville public schools
while working as a correspondent for The
Daily Progress, a local African American
newspaper. In 1890 the national office
of the YMCA created segregated YMCAs
across the U.S.
“The national office envisioned these
facilities as providing temporary hous-
ing, lending libraries, swimming pools
and gyms for black men along with spir-
itual and educational training,” according
to Blackpast.org.
“In an era when black public school fa-
cilities were often inadequate and cultur-
al and civic facilities non-existent, these
colored YMCAs provided additional ed-
ucational and cultural outlets in racial-
Montclair 150
The YWCA provided African American women with support, job training and friendship.
ly-segregated communities throughout
the country. Although endorsing segre-
gated YMCAs in the North was often con-
troversial with many civil rights groups,
Bullock and others supported segrega-
tion, which brought a degree of auton-
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COURTESY MHC
omy that many in the African American
community welcomed,” according to
Blackpast.
As conditions in the South became
less tolerant for African Americans, they
moved north to seek work and Montclair
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had opportunities for house workers. The
YMCA offered housing and support in
their new environment, said Godlewski.
After organizing and managing YM-
CAs, in Charlottesville, Brooklyn and
Louisville, in 1916, Bullock was trans-
ferred to Montclair where he served as
director.
“Among the national and internation-
ally known leaders who have appeared
as guest speakers at the YMCA to work
with African-American men and boys in
Montclair [have] been Booker T. Wash-
ington, founder of Tuskegee Institute; Dr.
Mordecai W. Johnson, president of How-
ard University; Dr. Benjamin Mays, pres-
ident of Morehouse College; and Jackie
Robinson, first African-American to play
baseball in the major leagues,” said God-
lewski.
Under Bullock’s leadership the Mont-
clair colored branch erected another
modern building, which became known
as the Washington Street Branch YMCA,
at a cost of $175,000.
Charles Harmon Bullock died in Mont-
clair on May 9, 1950.
In 2004, the YMCA was demolished to
make way for a school named the Charles
Harmon Bullock School.
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Montclair neighbors, then and now
by KELLY NICHOLAIDES
for Montclair Local
A peek into Montclair’s past provides insight into peo-
ple who put the township on the map from the late 1800s
through the mid-20th century. Working class and profes-
sional individuals included artists, composers, athletes
and tradesmen who built legacies through creativity, hard
work, benevolence and values.
GEORGE INNESS SR. (1830–1894)
The artist known for his tonal realism in landscape
paintings appeared at the practice of Samuel C.G. Wat-
kins, Montclair’s first dentist, on North Fullerton Avenue
in 1889 on a hot day, perspiring and covered in dirt from
the dust, kicked up walking through roadways that lacked
sidewalks. The two men formed a friendship, and Wat-
kins often visited the artist’s studio where Inness would
paint with a ferocious intensity and pace. “He was placing
his soul on that canvas,” Watkins wrote in his book “Rem-
iniscences of Montclair.”
“I have seen him stand in front of a picture and paint,
with every nerve under tension, every muscle up under
strain; he would be in a half squatting position in front of
the picture, painting like a boy at play, and quickly jump
back about five or six or eight feet, bend down in a crouch-
ing position and again rush forward, brush in hand and
strain his eyes at the picture with such intensity that they
would bulge from his head and his hair would stand on
end,” Watkins wrote.
Critical of his own work, Inness thought one day a
painting was grand only to change his mind weeks later
and declare it “perfect rot.”
“I have seen him paint eight pictures on one canvas,
and when each one was finished, he had the feeling that
it was as good as he ever did, but yet, after a few days, or a
few weeks, when he would look at it in a different mood,
his feeling would be that it was trash. Instantly the brush
would pass over it and destroy it,” Watkins wrote. George
Inness Sr. (his son George Inness Jr. was a painter too), was
born in 1830 and died in 1894. He moved to Montclair in
1885, and lived in a home called The Pines on Grove Street,
renovating the barn for a studio. Inness Sr. was one of
the most known artists in the Montclair Art Colony. The
George Inness Annex of Montclair High School is named
for him, and his art hangs in the Montclair Art Museum.
BENJAMIN MOORE (1855-1917)
The co-founder of Benjamin Moore & Co. Paints with
brother Robert in 1883, Benjamin was born in Ireland and
emigrated to America in 1872. He lived in Upper Mont-
clair. The Moore brothers founded the company in Brook-
lyn with one product, “Moore’s Prepared Calsom Finish,”
and sold their paints only through independent retailers.
In 1913, the New York Times reported a roast for Moore:
“About 30 members of the Upper Montclair Country
Club, drove up to [Benjamin’s] home in automobiles and
capatured him. Mr. Moore was taken to the club, where he
was made the guest of honor at a dinner.” He and his wife
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George Inness
left the next day on a boat for an extended visit to Europe.
HERMAN HUPFELD (1894-1951)
The lyricist who wrote “As Time Goes By,” featured in
the classic film “Casablanca,” lived at 259 Park St. Parts of
the song are painted on the beam of the living room ceil-
ing. Hupfeld’s mother was the organist at Watchung Con-
gregational Church, said township historian Mike Far-
relly. “He wrote ‘As Time Goes By’ in 1931. It was not a hit.
Rudy Vallee recorded a version and it [initially] flopped.
In 1943 when Sam Dooley sang it in ‘Casablanca,’ the song
gained great popularity and success,” Farrelly said.
Hupfeld spent World War I playing saxophone in the
Navy band before making a living as a composer after
a “random bolt of perfection” with the song, according
to a 2005 New York Daily News article. Reporter David
Hinckley noted that “the song began with three stanzas
of wordplay that sounded like a poor man’s Ira Gersh-
win. When it got to the chorus, happily, it turned simple
and elegant. But one good chorus wasn’t enough to sell
critics on the show.” Hinckley noted that singer Frances
Williams performed the song in “Everybody’s Welcome,”
a musical for the Shuberts. The Great Depression hit re-
cord sales hard, but the song survived after the Japanese
bombed Pearl Harbor and Warner Brothers was looking
for patriotic war-related prospects and bought it.
FRANK BUNKER GILBRETH, JR., (1911-2001)
ERNESTINE GILBRETH CAREY (1908-2006)
“Cheaper by the Dozen” authors Frank Bunker Gil-
breth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey lived in Mont-
clair with their 10 other siblings children. The book is a
semi-autobiographical novel about growing up with 12
children in the family; it mentions Montclair, referencing
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Herman Hupfeld
the Bullock School and the Wellmont. It was published in
1948. The bestselling book was later adapted into a feature
film by 20th Century Fox in 1950 and followed up by the
sequel, “Belles on Their Toes” (1950), which was adapted as
a 1952 film. “Cheaper by the Dozen” is the Montclair Pub-
lic Library’s first Community Read, in 2018.
DONALD L. MILLER (1923-1993)
Artist Don Miller painted the iconic Martin Luther
King Freedom mural — now at the Martin King Jr. Me-
morial Library in Washington, D.C. — in his studio at 180
Bloomfield Ave. after being commissioned by the Nation-
al Library in Washington, D.C. , for an unveiling during
the first observance of Dr. King’s birthday as a national
holiday. “Much of Mr. Miller’s work reflected the spir-
it of the emerging civil rights movement,” read hie New
York Times obituary. “His magnum opus, the King Mu-
ral, depicts the life and work of Dr. King. Seven feet high
and 56 feet long, it was commissioned by the library and
was unveiled in January 1986 for the first observance of
Dr. King’s birthday as a national holiday.” Several of the
historic figures portrayed in the mural came to Montclair
to meet with Don Miller in person, including Rosa Parks,
the heroine of the Montgomery bus boycott; Dr. Caroline
Goodman, the mother of the slain CORE worker Andrew
Goodman; the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy; Dorothy Cotton
from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; At-
lanta’s Mayor Andrew Young; the Rev C.T. Vivian and the
Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker.
ANNE MCCAFFREY (1926-2011)
Best known for the “Dragonriders of Pern” science
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Saint Cassian Roman Catholic Church

Together with
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Reverend John J. Brown 1954-1974 • Reverend Gerard W. Walsh 1974-1976
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fiction series, the writer became the first
woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction
and the first to win a Nebula Award. Her
book “The White Dragon” was one of the
first science-fiction novels to make the
New York Times Best Seller list. She grad-
uated from Montclair High School before
attending Radcliffe College. With a career
spanning nearly five decades, McCaffrey
also served a term as secretary-treasurer
of the Science Fiction Writers of America.
She emigrated to Ireland in 1970, where
she continued to write.
BUZZ ALDRIN (1930- )
Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin was the second
man to walk on the moon. Aeronautics
ran in his family: his father, Edwin Sr. ,
was an aeronautical engineer. Buzz got
his nickname because his older sister had
trouble pronouncing the word “brother,”
according to “Legendary Locals” by Eliz-
abeth Shepard and Mike Farrelly. Aldrin
served in the Korean War as a pilot, and
flew 66 missions. In 1963, Aldrin joined
NASA’s Astronaut Group 3. He succesfully
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Director Arthur Curley at a special ceremony
in 1969.
proved that astronauts could work outside
spacecraft, setting a record for extrave-
hicular activity on the Gemini 12 mission,
spending five hours outside the ship. On
July 20, 1969, Aldrin flew on the Apollo 11
mission as Lunar Module Pilot, and he and
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Neil Armstrong were the first two human
beings ever to set foot on the moon on July
21. After 21 years of service, Aldrin retired
in 1972 from active duty, working in the
Air Force in managerial roles. In his 1973
autobiography “Return to Earth” and his
2009 autobiography “Magnificent Deso-
lation,” Aldrin describes his struggles with
depression and alcoholism. In December
2016, Aldrin became the oldest person
ever to visit the South Pole, visiting the
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station with
a tourist group. He fell ill and was evacu-
ated. Among his many awards are the Air
Force Distinguished Service Medal, 1969;
being honored on a United States postage
stamp, 1994; the highest honor from the
Space Foundation, the General James E.
Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award,
2006; the Congressional Gold Medal,
along with Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and
Michael Collins, 2011. In 2016, Mount He-
bron Middle School in Montclair, which
Aldrin attended, was renamed the Buzz
Aldrin Middle School.
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS (1931- )
The actress lived on Mountain Avenue
with her husband Louis Zorich and their
three children. Dukakis is best known for
winning an Academy Award in 1987 for
her role in “Moonstruck.” She had already
logged more than 30 years in acting and
joked, “So much for overnight anything,”
in her 2003 memoir “Ask Me Again To-
morrow.” According to a 2016 article in
New Jersey Monthly magazine by Mont-
clair writer Jacqueline Mroz, Dukakis was
at the Whole Theater, the company she
founded in Montclair,
when she learned that
she had been nominat-
ed for an Oscar. She and
her husband had moved
to the township for a
quiet place to raise a
family and to start their
own theater company OLYMPIA
with other actors. For 17 DUKAKIS
years, the theater com-
pany produced five plays per season, and
included actors such as Samuel L. Jack-
son and Blythe Danner, according to a
2003 New York Times article. She lived in
Montclair from 1971 to 1999. The township
gave her a parade after her Oscar win, and
she was honored with a star on the Holly-
wood Walk of Fame in 2013.
AUBREY LEWIS (1935–2001)
One of the most outstanding foot-
ball players and athletes in the history
of Montclair High School, Aubrey Lewis
continued to achieve great things at the
Thursday, June 28, 2018
University of Notre Dame. He was named
captain of the track team there, becom-
ing the first African American to be so
honored. narrowly missed making an
Olympic team after he stumbled over the
last hurdle during trials, according to his
New York Times obituary in 2001. He also
played as the Notre Dame football team’s
halfback from 1955 to 1957, and was draft-
ed by the NFL’s Chicago Bears. While his
playing career was halted by ankle inju-
ries, Lewis had made his mark: the New-
ark Evening News named him the “offen-
sive football player of the century” in the
1960s, and the Star-Ledger followed suit
in 1999.
Lewis accomplished all he did while
concealing a heart murmur. When he ar-
rived for a physical, the doctor noticed
that Lewis’ heart was beating too quickly.
Lewis’ excuse was that he ran all the way
from home. He was an All-American half-
back for the Mountie football team; on the
track, Lewis set state records in the 100-
yard dash, the 200 and the discus. He also
played on undefeated basketball teams.
After football, Lewis taught in Newark,
Montclair and Paterson, where he also
coached football and track. The FBI recruit
ed him in 1962 as one of the first African
Americans to go through their training
academy and become an agent. Five years
later, Woolworth offered him a job as an
executive recruiter. “Seven years earlier,
a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth lunch
counter in Greensboro, N.C. was a sig-
nature moment of the civil rights move-
ment,” the obituary states.
Lewis also went on to serve as commis-
sioner of the New Jersey Sports & Exhi-
bition Authority while that organization
developed the Meadowlands sports com-
plex in the 1970s, according to the Times
obituary.
CHRISTOPHER DURANG (1949- )
The playwright was born in Montclair
and fell in love with theater when he saw
his first musicals at Paper Mill Playhouse
in Millburn. His 1979 play “Sister Mary
Ignatius Explains It All For You” won an
Obie Award, and is often considered the
playwright’s break-out work.
Known for his outrageous comedy,
Durang won a Tony Award for Best Play
in 2013 for “Vanya and Sonia and Masha
and Spike.” His writing deals with issues of
child abuse, Roman Catholic dogma, and
homosexuality. Durang lives in Pennsyl-
vania with his husband, actor and play-
wright John Augustine.
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PAMELA REDMOND SATRAN
(1953- )
The author published “Younger” in
2005, and the book was the basis for the
TV series that debuted in 2015 on TV Land.
In June 2018, the show was renewed for a
sixth season.
She lived in Montclair from the 1980s
until 2015. While living in London, she
co-authored books on naming in England
and Ireland. Satran is also the co-author,
with Linda Rosencrantz, of several ba-
by-naming books, including “Beyond
Jennifer and Jason” (1988) and “The Ba-
by-Naming Bible” (2007), and runs the
baby-name website Nameberry. Satran
wrote the famous essay “30 Things Every
Woman Should Have and Should Know
By The Time She’s 30,” which has been at-
tributed to Maya Angelou, among many
others.
STEPHEN COLBERT (1964- )
The host of the CBS talk show “The
Late Show with Stephen Colbert” since
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Stephen Colbert
2015, Colbert came to national fame as a
correspondent for “The Daily Show” on
Comedy Central from 1997 to 2004, then
on the same network with his show “The
Colbert Report,” a satirical comedy where
he played a right-wing ideologue, from
2005 to 2014. The show was so popular he
was asked to perform at the White House
Correspondents’ Association Dinner in
2006. Colbert is from Charleston, S.C. ,
Rare Civil War era photo in the Montclair History Center’s Archives, taken around the time Montclair became a town.
and studied acting at Northwestern Uni-
versity. He first performed profession-
ally as an understudy for Steve Carell at
Second City Chicago. Among his many
awards are nine Primetime Primetime
Emmys two Grammys and two Peabody
Awards. Colbert is a practicing Catholic,
from a large Catholic family (the youngest
of 11) who used to teach Sunday school in
Montclair. Married to Evelyn “Evie” Mc-
Gee-Colbert, he has three children. He is
on the Advisory Board of Montclair Film,
and often heads their fundraisers and
interviews stars such as Ethan Hawke,
John Turturro, Rachel Weisz, Richard
Gere, when they appear at the Montclair
Film Festival. In 2009, NASA named
a treadmill on the International Space
Station for him, the “Combined Opera-
tional Load-Bearing External Resistance
Treadmill (COLBERT),” after Colbert took
an interest in it and urged his viewers to
vote for him in the naming census. No
other living human being has a piece of
NASA-engineered equipment named for
him.
DUNCAN SHEIK (1969- )
Sheik was raised by his parents in
Montclair and his grandparents in South
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Carolina. His grandmother taught him pi-
ano. The singer-songwriter and composer
found success with his 1996 debut single
“Barely Breathing” and earned a Gram-
my Award nomination for Best Male Pop
Vocal Performance. He won multiple To-
nys and a Grammy for the 2008 musical
“Spring Awakening.” Sheik studied semi-
otics at Brown University before moving
to Los Angeles, where he continues to
write. .
Gwen Orel and Jaimie Winters contributed
reporting to this article. Sources: Benjamin-
moore.com; Christopherdurang.com; “Donald
L. Miller, 69, Painter and Illustrator.” New York
Times: Feb. 10, 1993.; Farrelly, Mike.; Goldstein,
Richard. “Aubrey Lewis, 66, Athlete Who Was
an F.B.I. Pioneer.” The New York Times: Dec. 13,
2001. Grammy.com; Hinckley, David. “Play it
again. Herman Hupfeld’s Greatest Hit.” The
New York Daily News: May 9, 2005; June 20,
2000; Mroz, Jacqueline. “A Storied Life.” New
Jersey Monthly: February 2016. Nameberry.
com; Nash, Margo. “Olympia Dukakis and
Memories of Montclair.” New York Times: Aug.
10, 2003; “Legendary Locals of Montclair.” Ar-
cadia Publishing: 2013; Watkins, Samuel C.G.
“Reminiscences of Montclair.” A.S. Barned and
Company: 1929; Wikipedia.com.
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150 years of progress in Montclair schools
by ERIN ROLL
roll@montclairlocal.news
Few institutions have been as import-
ant to the life of Montclair as its schools.
The last 150 years have seen Mont-
clair’s schools change from a collection
of modest school houses serving local
farming families, and a small handful
of private schools for more privileged
residents, to a highly acclaimed public
school district and five renowned pri-
vate schools.
Montclair’s public schools operate on
a magnet system, with each school of-
fering a curriculum tailored to different
subject areas, such as STEM (science,
technology, engineering and mathemat-
ics) courses, arts, languages and history.
EARLY YEARS
The roots of Montclair’s public school
system predate Montclair’s actual found-
ing as its own separate township. Prior
to the 1860s, Montclair was part of the
larger township of Bloomfield. The area,
which encompassed several commu-
nities known as Cranetown and Speer-
town, was largely populated by farming
families.
One of the first mentions of a school-
house in Montclair was of a modest
one-story stone building built in 1740.
It doubled as a church. The building was
just southeast of what is now Hillside
School and opposite the present-day
Board of Education offices. The school
was equipped with a “dungeon,” where
misbehaving children would be sent for
a time-out.
A second schoolhouse was built about
20 years after the first.
In 1829, the state began distributing
public funds toward school districts. It
was in 1849 that Montclair switched from
a fee-paying system for its town schools
to a public, taxpayer-funded system.
The 1860s brought the arrival of the
railroad from New York. Soon after,
wealthy and middle-class families inter-
ested in moving from New York out into
the country began to arrive in Montclair.
The arrival of families from New York
resulted in a push for better services, in-
cluding improved streets and lighting,
and better schools. But this wasn’t with-
out its tensions, with long-established
families sparring with newer families
about whether Montclair really needed
new schools.
1868 saw Montclair’s incorporation as
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A 1920 photo of a second-grade class at Grove Street School.
its own separate township from Bloom-
field. Edwin B. Goodell’s “Montclair: The
Evolution of a Suburban Town,” pub-
lished in 1934, includes this mention of
the first township meeting minutes, in-
cluding the outlay of a budget: “For Pub-
lic Schools, $2,500. For roads, $2,500.
For care of the poor, $1,000. For ‘inci-
dentals,’ $600. Such and so humble was
the birth of Montclair.”
Besides the public schools, there were
some small private schools, such as the
Ashland Hall boarding school opened in
1859, the Mount Prospect House, and the
Hillside Academy for Young Ladies.
The 1860s saw the advent of a second-
ary school system in Montclair. Prior to
that time, students often traveled out of
town to get a high school education.
Another name that shows up in the
history of Montclair’s schools is Dr. John
Love, a local doctor who also held a po-
sition as a library trustee. He joined the
board of education in 1862 and served as
a trustee for 35 years.
Love had been among the proponents
for establishing a high school in Mont-
clair, a suggestion that many residents
had questioned because of the perceived
expense. “We can afford to pay for any-
thing that will elevate the community,”
Love said during the 1879 school budget
meeting.
Randall Spaulding was appointed
the first high school principal. He later
became the first superintendent of the
consolidated school district. “He was a
gentleman, a scholar and a dedicated
educator, and it is largely to him that
we are indebted for the foundations and
COURTESY MONTCLAIR HISTORY CENTER
first creation of one of the finest school
systems in the country,” according to
“Montclair: 1896-1993.” The book notes
that Spaulding’s accomplishments in-
cluded going on a science expedition for
the Smithsonian and collecting 30 new
species of plants, “which any holder of
a chair of botany in any university on
earth today would envy.”
Montclair actually comprised three
separate school districts until 1894, when
they were consolidated into one district.
GROWTH AND CHANGE
The late 19th century and the first
half of the 20th century saw many more
changes come to Montclair.
The town continued growing, and
became more diverse over time as well.
Irish and Italian immigrants arrived, as
did African American families.
As the town changed and grew, so
too did the schools. Most of Montclair’s
present-day schools were established
during this time.
Maple Avenue School, now Glenfield
Middle School, was built in 1896. The
first Bradford School, described as a two-
room school in “the Heights,” was built
in 1895, and Watchung School opened in
1900. Hillside School and Cedar Avenue
School, later renamed Nishuane, were
built in 1909.
The Montclair Academy, a private
school for boys, was established in 1887.
The school became a military boarding
school in 1891, and was renamed the
Montclair Military Academy. This desig-
nation continued until the end of World
War I.
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Mary Kimberley Waring established
the Kimberley School for girls, initial-
ly as Miss Waring’s School and Studio,
in 1906. The Kimberley School became
known as the sister school for the Mont-
clair Academy.
Meanwhile, the State Normal School
(now Montclair State University) was es-
tablished in 1908 for the training of new
teachers and staff.
Two schools on Grove Street and
Baldwin Street were built in 1912 and
1913. The present-day Montclair High
School was built on Chestnut Street in
1915. Even so, each of Montclair’s schools
was filled to capacity by the start of the
1920s.
A rapid succession of new schools
followed in the 1920s: Rand, Edgemont,
George Inness Junior High School and
the present-day Bradford. The 1920s also
saw the founding of Lacordaire Acade-
my, and the Brookside School.
Along with the building of new
schools, all of the existing schools saw a
program of expansions and additions.
Montclair Academy was in need of
additional space of its own, and bought
the Brookside School in 1949 to use as a
feeder school.
By the end of the 1940s, Montclair
had 11 public elementary schools - in-
cluding also the Chestnut Street School,
Southwest School and the George Wash-
ington School - in addition to the public
middle and high schools.
Declining enrollment starting in
the 1950s led to the closure of some of
Montclair’s schools. The Chestnut Street
School is now the home of the Montclair
Cooperative School, which opened in
1963, and the Grove Street School later
became the private Deron School.
DESEGREGATION AND THE
MAGNET PROGRAM
In the 1950s and 1960s, Montclair, like
many school districts across the country,
had to deal with the problem of segrega-
tion. Neighborhoods were divided large-
ly among color lines, with black families
being consigned largely to the Fourth
Ward, and this was reflected in the de-
mographics of the schools.
There were virtually no families of
color in Upper Montclair. Before the
1960s, real estate agents didn’t show
black families houses for sale north of
Watchung Avenue.
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Thursday, June 28, 2018
Schools
from page E-40
Glenfield and Nishuane, two predominantly black
schools, had fallen into disrepair, and students were
given inadequate textbooks and other resources com-
pared to their peers at predominantly white schools.
Harris Davis, whose daughter Lydia had just start-
ed at Montclair High School, went before the BOE in
1961 to raise concerns about the issue. His daughter had
been a straight-A student at Glenfield, but her grades
plummeted when she started at the high school. This
led Davis to question whether Glenfield was doing its
job to prepare students for high school coursework.
Davis, together with other parents, founded the Par-
ents’ Emergency Committee. The committee worked
with the NAACP to compare educational offerings in
predominantly white schools with those in predomi-
nantly black schools.
In 1966, a group of parents filed a lawsuit against the
BOE. The case, Rice v. Montclair Board of Education, was a
landmark case in New Jersey educational law, and it led
to Montclair being put under a desegregation order.
Montclair tried a busing program in 1972. But this
led to many tensions in town, with BOE meetings last-
ing until 1 a.m. sometimes. It was estimated that 1,500
children were pulled out of the public schools and sent
to private schools during that time.
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ERIN ROLL/STAFF
A collection of literary magazines and yearbooks from some
of Montclair’s schools in the 1910s.
In 1976, the schools tried something new: a magnet
program.
The magnet program started out in two schools:
Bradford and Nishuane, with Bradford having a “back
to basics” program and Nishuane being designated as
the gifted and talented program. Gradually, the magnet
system spread to the other schools.
Bradford and Nishuane were also designated as sites
for the schools’ new Pre-K program in 1977.
By the late 1970s and early 1980s, Bradford and Ni-
shuane were virtually equal in the attendance rates of
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white and minority students.
Jane Manners, a graduate of the Montclair schools,
took Montclair’s magnet system and its founding as
the subject for her honors thesis at Harvard in 1998.
While Montclair’s system has been lauded as a success-
ful model, she wrote, the schools still had a problem
with students of color being less likely than their white
peers to be enrolled into advanced academic courses.
PRESENT DAY
Today, Montclair has 11 public schools, as well as five
private, parochial and otherwise independent schools.
As of the 2017-2018 school year, there were approxi-
mately 6,681 students enrolled in the public school dis-
trict.
The magnet program has received accolades at both
the state and federal level over the years.
A new elementary school, Charles H. Bullock, opened
its doors in 2010.
Mt. Hebron School was renamed Buzz Aldrin Middle
School in 2014, after the Montclair native and Apollo 11
astronaut.
The Montclair Academy, the Kimberley School and
Brookside School merged in 1974 to become the Mont-
clair Kimberley Academy, which serves students on
three campuses across Montclair.
All information from “Montclair 1868-1993: A Goodly Heri-
tage,” by David Nelson and Mary Travis Arny Alloway, unless
otherwise noted.
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In business for 150 years

Some closed,
while others stood
the test of time
by DEBORAH ANN TRIPOLDI
tripoldi@montclairlocal.news

Beginning in the 1850s, businesses

opened in what is now Montclair reflecting
the needs of a rural community. As the In-
dustrial Revolution hit and the population
grew, businesses’ services and offerings be-
came more sophisticated. Some survived
for decades only to close in recent years
due to even more modernization. This list
touches on only some of the many Mont-
clair businesses.

EARLY BEGINNINGS
Highlights of Samuel Watkins’ brief
but extensive listing in “Reminiscences of
Montclair” of Montclair businesses states
that in 1880 there were about 40 storekeep-
ers and businessmen engaged here in var-
ious occupations. By 1888, there were not
less than 125: “blacksmiths, five; barbers,
three; bakers, three; butchers, seven; books
and stationery, three; carpenters, ten; coal
and wood, four; carriage makers, three;
cigar and tobacco, three; druggists, three;
dry good and millinery, five; flour, feed and
grain, three; florists, three; furniture, one;
fruit and vegetables, three; grocers, eleven;
harness, two; hardware, three; hotels, two;
jewelers, three; lumber and masons’ mate-
rials, one; label factory, one; livery stables,
four; laundries, two; masons, seven; news-
papers, two; newsdealers, two; plumbers
and gas fitters, five; painters, six; planing
mill, one; picture frames, one; restaurants,
two; real estate, five; shoes, five; tailors,
two; upholsterers, two; undertakers, one;
well drillers, two; wheelwright, one.”
By the late 1920s, there were 232 stores,
15 garages, 19 barber shops, 12 real estate
offices and 14 restaurants.
HOTELS
The Montclair Weekly Journal of April
18, 1876, had the following to say about the
Montclair Hotel, which stood on the south-
east corner of Bloomfield Avenue at Valley
Road [sic]: “In 1865 sold it to the present
proprietor, who made extensive improve-
ments, and lately refurnished it thorough-
ly, so that today it stands as one of the best
appointed and best kept country hotels in
Montclair Hotel stood on the southeast corner of Bloomfield Avenue at Valley Road.
the state.”
The Morris Canal ran near the eastern
boundary of Montclair. The proprietor was
Edward E. Wright. The hotel had a game
room with billiard tables, also accommoda-
tions for card, domino and checker players.
Famous New Jersey apple and peach bran-
dy or common everyday beer were served
to gentlemen at the tables by dumb-waiter
from the bar in the basement below. Be-
yond the billiard room was the big public
parlor with black walnut furniture, mar-
ble-topped tables, and flowered Brussels
carpet. From the mantle piece hung a dark
green felt lambrequin trimmed with mot-
tled red plush, wormlike tassels, and gold-
enrod, and nasturtiums embroidered in
chenille. From gilded, black walnut cornic-
es at the long windows, hung magenta cur-
tains, looped back by big brass tie-backs.
Large steel engravings, hanging from the
molding by tasseled cords, decorated the
walls. On the ground floor, beside the bar-
room, were a barbershop, kitchen, and din-
ing room with its cane-seated black walnut
chairs and oval tables each with its pressed
glassware for condiments. Here the winter
sledding parties or summer tallyho loads
which drove from Newark and Jersey City,
making the hotel their objective, supped on
suckling pigs, turkeys, or great hams. After
supper there was country dancing, accord-
ing to “Montclair in the Elegant Eighties”
by Gladys Segar.
The 24 sleeping rooms were furnished
with inexpensive cottage suites decorated
with painted flowers, birds, or snow scenes;
and a washstand with its crockery toilet set.
Floors were covered with Japanese mat-
ting in summer, and in winter with ingrain
tapestries. The scenes such as these that
brought hordes of summer boarders to the
village of Montclair.
In October of 1880 the hotel name be-
came ‘The Mansion House.” It was proba-
bly at this time that Wright sold out to W.
R. Courter. The Montclair Times of Dec.
31, 1881, said, “R. Courter, proprietor of
the Mansion House, has made it one of the
best places of resort for the driving public.
There are enclosed sheds for the horses,
and handsome parlors and retiring rooms
for ladies and gentlemen. The delicacies
of the season are found on the lunch ta-
ble. Yesterday the bill of fare embraced
duck, chicken, cold tongue, corned beef,
COURTESY MONTCLAIR PUBLIC LIBRARY ARCHIVES
cheese and crackers, pickles, nuts, apples,
and Florida oranges. This was not a special
spread but can be found at all times by plea-
sure drivers. From the number of turnouts
yesterday there it is evident that the tide of
pleasure driving is turned that way.”
In the fall of 1888, a further improve-
ment was added for the comfort of guests:
a “Florida System” steam heating plant
was installed. Winter guests were chiefly
transients, but during the summer import-
ant Newark or New York families came to
spend the season, according to “Montclair
in the Elegant Eighties.”
Toward the end of the decade, with oth-
er changes in ownership, the character of
the establishment changed, and days of
disrepute were foreshadowed. The propri-
etor made connections with the famous
gambling house of Canfield. His wife, who
had seen better days, spent hours poring
over a box of old letters written to her by
Robert E. Lee, then at West Point, when she
was a Southern belle, according to “Mont-
clair in the Elegant Eighties.”
Records of the period also mention the
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Business
have competition,” said Betty Holloway, a
historian. They ran the business until 1910,
according to “Legendary Locals of Mont-
from page E-42 clair.” The building is no longer there.

Washington Hotel on the Old Road, Grand SODA FOUNTAINS

View Hotel high on the mountain, and the
Central Hotel on the southwest corner of
Valley Road and Bloomfield Avenue. In
1884 the Township Committee decided that
four hotels were sufficient for the needs of
Montclair.
MONTCLAIR BANKS
The first financial institution in town
was The Bank of Montclair, built in 1889
at 418 Bloomfield Ave. It had assets of
$50,000, according to the book “A Goodly
Heritage; A Commemorative History of
Montclair, New Jersey.” by David Nelson
and Mary Travis Arny Alloway.
First Federal Savings and Loan Asso-
ciation of Montclair was established on
Jan. 1, 1922, and headquartered at 29 South
Park St. The bank had branches at 602 Val-
ley Road and 320 Orange Road, and then
moved across the street to 323 Orange
Road. It was acquired by Penn Federal
Savings Bank on Sept. 11, 1989. On April 2,
2007, it merged with New York Communi-
The first financial institution in town was The Bank of Montclair built in 1889.
ty Bank, which is still at the Orange Road
location, according to usbanklocations.
com.
On Jan. 12, 1976, Sgt. Alfred L. Sellick
Jr. , 48, was shot and killed trying to dis-
arm a gunman during a bank robbery at
the Orange Road location. Three days later
the gunman and three associates were ar-
rested. Sellick was a 25-year veteran of the
Montclair Police Department, according to
police records.
COURTESY MONTCLAIR HISTORY CENTER
HOOE BROTHERS
Charles, William and Rosher Hooe
opened the first African-American busi-
ness and news stand in Montclair on the
corner of Bloomfield and Glenridge ave-
nues. The family also started the first home
newspaper delivery in Montclair. “The en-
tire family worked at the store. They did
well for themselves selling out of the store
and delivering the newspapers. They didn’t
The young flocked to Baldwin’s, a hand-
some drug store on the southwest corner
of South Fullerton Avenue, in the after-
noon or early evening. Baldwin installed
a new Tuft’s Arctic Soda Fountain of col-
ored marble and silver trimmed. Its upper
portion was decorated with a large plate
glass mirror, a bronze statuette and a gilt
chandelier. In summer it could keep cool
75 glasses of soda, and from it in winter hot
soda, flavored with lemon, chocolate, tea,
or coffee, was dispensed, a treat not hereto-
fore obtainable in town. In 1888 it was said,
“Ice cream soda is one of the new drinks
dispensed at the soda fountain in Mr. Bald-
win’s drugstore,” according to “Montclair
in the Elegant Eighties.”
DIAMOND CYCLE (DECÉNT CYCLES)
The first bicycle shop in Montclair was
Decént Cycles, founded in 1912, by 16-year-
old Philippe Decént, an Italian immigrant,
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in the Doremus Building at 10 North Fullerton Ave. Decént
came here through Ellis Island; records show his name
spelled both as Philippe Decént and Philip Desent, accord-
ing to the book “A Goodly Heritage; A Commemorative
History of Montclair, New Jersey.”
In 1906, the shop moved to its current location at 409
Bloomfield Ave.
Decént Bicycles was sold to his competitor, in 1927 and
the name became what it is known as today, Diamond Cy-
cles.
In 1955 Diamond’s son-in-law took over the shop. Cur-
rent owner Craig Cornell has headed Diamond Cycle since
April 1988, according to the shop’s website.
WELLMONT THEATER
The property for the Wellmont Theater, at the corner
of Bloomfield Avenue and Seymour Street, was purchased
in March of 1921 by theater manager H.H. Wellenbrick.
The name Wellmont is a combination of his name and the
town name. The theater opened in 1922 and was used for
acts such as burlesque comedy, song and dance and stage
plays. Famous people such as Charlie Chaplin performed
on the stage, but the Wellmont was mainly used as a movie
house. Thomas Edison viewed some picture shows there.
A pianist would play the theater’s Wurlitzer pipe organ
Montclair 150
DEBORAH ANN TRIPOLDI/STAFF
The Millionaire Game is based on some of the businesses
that were in Montclair in 1984. The game was produced by
the Montclair Rotary Club and based off the popular Mo-
nopoly game.
during silent movies. When film started adding sound
to the movies, the Wellmont Theatre added sound sync
equipment. At that time the Stanley Fabian theater chain
took over the Wellmont Theatre.
In the 1980s, the Roberts Theater chain made some
changes, converting the single room to a triplex focus-
ing on independent films. The entrance was moved from
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Bloomfield Avenue to Seymour Street.
In 2006, the theater was sold again. It was closed for
two years for renovations, which brought back the orig-
inal single stage and flexible floor seating. In 2008, it re-
opened again as the area’s largest concert venue. In 2013, it
changed ownership again and more repairs were made to
the crumbling ceiling, while the name was changed from
Wellmont Theatre to the Wellmont Theater. Live Nation
took over booking and it reopened in September 2015.
APPLEGATE FARM
Applegate Farm was established on 616 Grove St. in
1848 by the Sigler family, producing dairy such as Golden
Guernsey milk products on the working farm. The original
farm house still stands today. According to the website ap-
plegatefarm.com, during the Civil War the farmhouse saw
many slaves to freedom.
In the late 1800s, it was taken over by Julian Tinkham
and in the late 1920s Frank Oliver joined him with fresh
ideas. Oliver perfected the first ice cream cone at the loca-
tion.
Oliver hired his son-in-law Donald Littlefield as a driv-
er and he delivered ice cream for decades. Soon after, Lit-
tlefield brought the new items into area bakeries and mar-
kets.
Betty Vhay took over the business in 1980 and her fam-
ily moved into the original farmhouse. In 1991, Vhay’s
nephew Jason Street took over and is still the owner.
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Business
from page E-44
DECAMP BUS LINES
Major Jonathan W. DeCamp had the
idea to operate a stage service between
Roseland and Newark from the New-
ark-Mount Pleasant Turnpike, known as
Mt. Pleasant Avenue.
He constructed a covered wagon with a
team of horses and opened his stagecoach
line. The round trip would take the entire
day.
In 1878, his son Benjamin “Cap” De-
Camp joined the business, creating an-
other route, from the General Store and
the Post Office in Livingston to the Orange
Post Office. Rides were 25 cents.
In 1905, after Benjamin DeCamp’s
death, his son Robert took over and add-
ed another route, to Caldwell. In 1909,
he snagged the first motor bus, which
changed the transportation industry. How-
ever, the motor bus was difficult to handle.
There were difficulties going uphill and
buses sometimes had to be pushed by the
passengers. Horse-drawn carriages were
still used.
In 1917, after Robert died, Ralph D. De-
Camp, a dentist, gave up his dental practice
and took over the family business. Ralph
gained two new “up-to-the-minute” motor
buses, ending the era of horse-drawn car-
riages.
The company’s first garage was built
next to the Central School on South Liv-
ingston Avenue in Livingston. In 1926, the
business was expanded to fit 40 buses at 49
West Mt. Pleasant Ave. in Livingston. The
business expanded yet again, adding more
routes from Journal Square in Jersey City
and areas of North Jersey into New York.
The only line relinquished was the one that
fundamentally started the business, now
called Bus Route 144, the Caldwell-Rose-
land-Livingston-Pleasantdale to Newark
run. The only line to cease operation was
the original route. DeCamp added a bus ga-
rage in Clifton.
Robert and Stuart DeCamp expanded
the business to 175 motor coaches and in
the 1970s the company relocated to New
York City.
After World War II, DeCamp transpor-
tation, like many other businesses, strug-
gled.
Stuart DeCamp died in 1978 and the
family almost sold the over 100-year-old
business. In 1979, DeCamp relocated to
the former Public Service bus company
in Montclair. The company dropped to 73
buses and sold two routes. Robert DeCamp
Jr. came on board in 1968 and his sister Su-
zanne joined in 1979. In 1982, the family
was again pressured to sell, but the siblings
kept the business running.
Robert DeCamp Sr. retired in 1991 and
in November of 1997 Suzanne left the busi-
ness to explore other opportunities. Robert
Jr. bought his sister out. The company is the
oldest privately-owned and operated bus
company, according to DeCamp’s website.
PHARMACIES
Keil’s Pharmacy, which was established
by Herman Keil on 732 Valley Road and
opened in 1933, was bought out by Benzer
Pharmaceuticals in March. For decades it
was a landmark in Montclair, run by three
generations of the Keil family. Stuart and
Mona Keil, along with their son Andrew,
were the last of the Keil family to own the
pharmacy, according to previous reports in
Montclair Local. In the early days, pharma-
cists made, as well as prescribed medicines,
and remained community medical coun-
selors until the 1950s.
With the passage of new regulatory
laws in 1951, pharmacists needed a physi-
cian’s prescription to dispense many med-
ications.
Irving Hollander, an employee in a drug
store on the corner of Grove and Walnut
streets, bought the store. In 1941, it became
Grove Pharmacy when it moved north to
the old A&P. Its located at 123 Grove St.
PHOTO CULLEN
Kent Hallander family owned Photo
Cullen in Montclair for nearly a half centu-
ry until closing in January of this year. The
business began in 1882 at 551A Valley Road,
and gave way to the rise of digital photog-
raphy and decline of film photography,
according to previous reports in Montclair
Local. .
HAMPTON HOUSE
Hampton House, a high-end furniture
store at 467 Bloomfield Ave, closed its
doors in June 2017 after being in town for
70 years. The business was last run by Ron
and Joan Fisch. It too was hit by modern
online shopping, and the building remains
vacant, according to previous reports in
Montclair Local.
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Home field advantage
The stories behind
the familiar names
of Montclair’s
athletic fields
by ANDREW GARDA
garda@montclairlocal.news
Sports in Montclair has a storied histo-
ry, and the various surfaces are no excep-
tion.
However, while the exploits on the field
have often been well covered each week in
the newspaper, how the various fields got
their names isn’t as well known by the
populace of Montclair.
In honor of the 150th anniversary of
the town, here is a look at some of the
main sports fields in Montclair and where
their names come from.
WOODMAN FIELD
Home to the Mounties football, girls
lacrosse and track and field teams, Wood-
man Field is the oldest of Montclair High
School’s athletic fields.
Formerly known as Essex Field, and lo-
cated on Essex Avenue, it was dedicated as
Woodman Field on Oct. 31, 1942, honoring
Clarence L. Woodman, a former athletic
director, football and track coach for the
high school. He also served as president of
the New Jersey State Interscholastic Ath-
letic Association.
Woodman was with MHS for more than
20 years. After his death, the Board of Ed-
ucation voted unanimously on March 26,
1942, to name the field in his honor. At the
time, he had coached more state champi-
onship track teams than all other New Jer-
sey coaches combined.
The field has been upgraded several
times, most recently in 2005, when field
turf was installed.
CLARY ANDERSON ARENA
The home to both Montclair High
School and Montclair Kimberley Acade-
my hockey teams, Clary Anderson Arena
was originally a community built arena
which opened in the early 1970s on Chest-
nut Street opposite the Woodman/Fortu-
nato field complex.
It was later named after Clarence Os-
car Anderson, better known as Clary,
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ANDREW GARDA/STAFF
The press box at Woodman Field features the numbers “17” in honor of all-time Mountie great Aubrey Lewis.
who, along with Butch Fortunato, formed
a potent football coaching duo at Mont-
clair High School. Save for a break during
World War II when Anderson served in
the Navy, the two coached the Mounties
to a 209–23–6 record before Anderson
left in 1969 to coach the Montclair State
College football team.
Over the course of seven seasons at
MSC, Anderson’s teams had a record of
46-20-3 with five straight conference ti-
tles from 1969 to 1973. He was also a very
successful baseball coach at Montclair
State and was eventually inducted into the
MSU Hall of Fame.
Anderson was also a member of the
undefeated Colgate University team in ANDREW GARDASTAFF
1932, where he was named All-American MKA’s Van Brunt Field, on its Lloyd Road upper school campus, is home to Cougar football,
in both 1932 and 1933. soccer and lacrosse.
FORTUNATO FIELD two years and then to the All-Metropoli- and Fortunato led the team to its first un-
Installed and dedicated in 2005, Fortu- tan team as a senior quarterback in 1935. defeated season and another with just one
nato Field, located just south of Woodman He was then offered a scholarship to Ford- loss.
Field on the corner of Essex Avenue and ham University, where he led the Rams to Fortunato took solo control of the
Chestnut Street, is home to both Mounties some of their best years. football team in 1969 and by the time he
soccer teams, boys lacrosse and softball. Fortunato was on the coaching staff retired from coaching, had a 115-56-7 re-
Its namesake, Angelo “Butch” Fortuna- of Montclair football in some form from cord, and led the team to its first state title.
to, remains one of the greatest coaches in 1940 to 1983, and served as the high He also had success as a basketball coach
Montclair High School history, but was a school’s athletic director after that. He during three seasons in the 1950s, includ-
tremendous athlete as well. Fortunato was got his first taste as Mountie head coach
named to the All-State Football team for while Anderson was serving in the Navy, See FIELDS, E-48
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Fields
from page E-46
ing an undefeated season in 1953-54.
Fortunato Field is currently scheduled
to have new field turf installed this com-
ing offseason.
ANDERSON PARK
Anderson Park was home to the Mont-
clair High School boys lacrosse team prior
to its current home field at Fortunato. To
this day, the Bellevue Avenue and North
Mountain Avenue park remains a practice
and game field for many recreational and
youth leagues, including lacrosse, soccer
and, most recently, ultimate Frisbee. It is
also the site of the annual Montclair la-
crosse alumni game and Homer Robinson
Day celebration.
Originally, the space was dubbed
Montclair Park and run by the town, but
it was handed over to the Essex County
Parks Commission in 1901, with the de-
sign completed in 1903. Then in 1909, the
town requested the name be changed to
Anderson Park to honor C.W. Anderson,
the original donor of the land.
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Along with being a prominent Mont-
clairite, Anderson boasted that he had
traveled further on the Erie Railroad than
any other resident of Montclair, claiming
to have gone 289,000 miles over the span
of 30 years while spending, according to
a New York Times article in 1912, a whop-
ping $3,000.
VAN BRUNT FIELD
According to former Montclair Kim-
berely Academy athletic director and cur-
rent science teacher George Hrab, MKA’s
football field was named after Ed Van
Brunt, a Montclair Academy teacher, ad-
ministrator, and coach from 1934 to 1970.
Van Brunt is also a charter member of
MKA’s Athletic Hall of Fame, having been
inducted posthumously in 1996.
Originally named and dedicated when
Van Brunt retired in the fall of 1969, it was
used for football and soccer by Montclair
Academy in the fall, with baseball taking
over in the spring. In 1978, lacrosse was
added as a varsity sport, while baseball
was moved to the Middle School on Val-
ley Road. Features like new bleachers and
field turf were added in the 1990s and it
has been used for football, soccer, field
hockey and lacrosse.
Known as “Red” or “Van,” Van Brunt
coached football, basketball, baseball
and field events in track. He had been a
four-letter athlete at East Orange High
School, and he went on to play profession-
al baseball with the Boston Braves. Career
highlights included an 11-inning complete
game shutout in which he hit a game-win-
ning home run, as well as striking out
Yankee legends Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel
and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game.
In 1955, Van Brunt’s baseball team had
won 20 straight games, and his basketball
team won 32 in row.
He is an honorary alumnus of Mont-
clair Academy, and had two yearbooks
dedicated to him, in 1947 and in 1970.
CODEY FIELD
The land upon which the Immaculate
Conception High School football field sits
was first acquired by the school in 1940
after it had applied to the Montclair Board
of Education for permission to use the
MHS “athletic plant,” what was then called
Essex Field.
According to a 1940 Montclair Times
article, the board rejected the request,
claiming that the field was already consid-
ered too small for the public school alone,
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ANDREW GARDA/STAFF
The grandstand at Codey Field, where Im-
maculate has played football since 1941.
much less for sharing the space.
With no other open fields available in
the town that suited the school’s needs,
the administration decided to purchase a
“three-acre tract of land. . .located at the
corner of Orange Road and Draper Ter-
race.” In January 1941, the school bought
additional land which contained the
structure which now hosts the Lions’ field
house.
The field was officially dedicated on
Sunday, May 6, 1941, by ICHS director
the Rev. Eugene Gallagher. Gallagher fol-
lowed up the field dedication by throw-
ing out the ceremonial first pitch before
a baseball game between Immaculate and
Seton Hall Prep.
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Congratulations to the Township of Montclair

on its 150th Anniversary!

Best Wishes to
Mayor Robert Jackson and the Township Council
and the Residents of Montclair

Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr.

Essex County Executive

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Page E-50 Montclair 150 Thursday, June 28, 2018

A storied championship history

From high school to pros, dozens of greats have played in Montclair
by ANDREW GARDA and
KEVIN MEACHAM
garda@montclairlocal.news
meacham@montclairlocal.news

Montclair has produced more than its

fair share of fantastic athletes. Over the
years, the three high schools — Mont-
clair High School, the Montclair Kim-
berley Academy (and its predecessors)
and Immaculate Conception — have sent
many young men and women to play at
the collegiate level and in some cases,
beyond. And at various times in its his-
tory, world-famous athletes have called
Montclair their home.
To celebrate 150 years of Montclair
history, we’ve compiled a list of some of
the greatest athletes to be associated with
this town, whether they were Super Bowl
or World Series champions or champi-
onship-winning Mounties.
This list was compiled with help from
Patrick Dyer, vice principal at Immac-
ulate Conception High School, Todd
Smith, athletic director at Montclair
Kimberley Academy, and Vincent Tan-
go’s “Montclair High School Football
History.” Statistics were used from Base-
COURTESY VINCE TANGO
ball-Reference.com, Pro-Football-Refer-
ence.com, USATF.org, IAAF.org, NJ.com Montclair High School football team’s “brain trust” coaching staff of Butch Fortunato, left, and Clary Anderson
and various university websites.

FOOTBALL
Buzz Aldrin — Before he walked on
the moon, Buzz was the starting cen-
ter on Montclair’s undefeated 1946 state
championship squad.
Josh Allen — Allen grew up in Mont-
clair but spent just one season at MHS. It
was a dominant one, though: he record-
ed 20 sacks (best in the state) as a de-
fensive end and caught four touchdown
passes to help the Mounties finish a per-
fect 12-0 season in 2014. Allen current-
ly plays linebacker for the University of
Kentucky, where he was named All-Con-
ference last season; he is expected to be
a high draft pick in the 2019 NFL Draft.
Clary Anderson — One of the all-
time great high school football coaches
anywhere, Clarence Oscar Anderson
won a remarkable 209 games over near-
ly three decades at MHS alongside with
his trusted assistant coach, Butch Fortu-
nato. He came to a middling Montclair
program following the 1939 season; the
Mounties won their first state title in An-
derson’s second season. After serving in
the Navy during World War II, Ander-
son returned to helm one of the greatest
dynasties in high school football histo-
ry, highlighted by a stretch from 1946 to
1957, when Montclair won 102 games and
lost 4. Anderson’s Montclair teams won
more than a dozen state titles before he
resigned in 1968 to take over the football
program at Montclair State, where he led
them to a 46-20-3 record and five con-
secutive conference titles.
Alvin Bowen — An All-State per-
former on Montclair High’s 2002 state
championship team, Bowen graduated
in 2004 and played at Iowa State where
he ranked second in the nation during
his junior year with 155 tackles. After a
senior year, he compiled 99 tackles, Bow-
en was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the
fifth round of the 2008 NFL Draft. Bow-
en was on the roster for the Bills, Wash-
ington Redskins, Jacksonville Jaguars
and Denver Broncos. He also played with
the Calgary Stampeders and Saskatche-
wan Roughriders of the Canadian Foot-
ball League.
Ron Burton — The starting quarter-
back on the undefeated 1964 squad that
finished the season ranked No. 3 in the
nation, Burton was a three-year starter
at Colgate University, where he led the
school to an 8-1-1 record in 1966.
David Caldwell — A 2005 gradu-
ate, Caldwell spent a postgrad year at
Lawrenceville and played for William &
Mary, eventually signing with the NFL’s
Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free
agent in 2010. He started 13 games at
safety for the Colts in 2011.
Rikki Cook — A powerful running
back, Cook rose to stardom at Montclair
High, rushing for more than 2,100 yards
and 28 touchdowns to earn First Team
All-State honors as a senior in 2000.
He was rated New Jersey’s No. 2 college
prospect and signed with Rutgers in
2001, eventually finishing his college ca-
reer at North Carolina.
Garvie Craw — A fullback and key
member of the 1964 Montclair squad,
arguably the best team in program histo-
ry, Craw went on to have a very success-
ful career as a fullback/halfback for the
University of Michigan in 1967-1969.
Royce Flippin — A halfback and
one of the stars of the Mounties’ ear-
ly-1950s dynasty, Flippin went on to ex-
cel at Princeton University, where he was
named captain in 1955. He later served in
a successful stint as Princeton’s athletic
director beginning in 1972.
Butch Fortunato — In addition to
receiving All-State honors his final two
seasons under center at quarterback for
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Athletes
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the Mounties, Fortunato was half of the “brain trust” of
Montclair football alongside Clary Anderson from 1940
to 1968, and served as head coach from 1942-45 while
Anderson served in World War II. After winning state
titles in 1943 and 1944, Fortunato assumed head coach-
ing duties for good in 1969, and won 115 games in 15 sea-
sons. His final season in charge (1983) saw MHS win its
first state championship since the advent of the playoff
system a decade earlier.
Marcus Hackett — A 1980 Immaculate Conception
graduate, Hackett played wide receiver for Syracuse
University and went on to play for the New Jersey Gen-
erals of the United States Football League in 1984 and
1985.
Khalif Herbin — One of the most electric players
to ever grace Woodman Field, Herbin rewrote the re-
cord books as a senior in 2011, scoring an Essex Coun-
ty-record 43 touchdowns en route to being named the
state’s Offensive Player of the Year by the Star-Ledger.
A versatile player who starred as a running quarterback,
kick and punt returner and wide receiver, Herbin’s 70
career touchdowns was a school record until Daniel
Webb broke it in 2017.
Richard and Robert Haines — The Haines twins,
known as the “Twin Comets” for their outstanding ef-
forts as running backs on the Mounties’ powerhouse
1956 and 1957 state champion teams, were both three-
sport superstars (football, basketball and baseball).
Richard was the speedster, a high school All-American
who left Montclair as the football program’s all-time
leading scorer, while Robert was a bruising blocker and
tackler extraordinaire.
Sean Jones — A former Montclair Kimberley Acad-
emy standout, Jones played football, basketball and la-
crosse before attending Northeastern University after
graduating in 1980. He was drafted in the second round
of the 1984 NFL Draft by the Los Angeles Raiders, but
won Super Bowl XXXI with the Green Bay Packers.
Aubrey Lewis — One of the greatest Mounties ever,
Lewis took part in three sports, winning two state titles
in football, a track team championship with many indi-
vidual records and starring in basketball as well. Lewis
was named the Newark Star-Ledger’s “Offensive Play-
er of the Century” for football in 1999. His number 17
still stands on the press box overlooking the Mounties’
Woodman Field. Lewis was the first African-Ameri-
can to be captain of an athletic team at Notre Dame,
where he won a collegiate national championship in the
400-meter hurdles. In 1962, Lewis joined the FBI’s first
training class for black agents, and he spent five years
with the bureau.
Quintus McDonald — McDonald was named to
the USA Today All-USA high school football team in
1984 as a linebacker, before going on to Penn State. He
was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the sixth round
of the 1989 NFL Draft and was with the team from 1989
to 1991.
Ben Mobley — An All-State player in both football
and basketball, Mobley was a star defensive end on the
Montclair 150
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Yogi Berra
1961 Mountie team, before going on to play football at
Ohio State.
Jeff Mills — After graduating MHS 1986, Mills went
on to play football with the University of Nebraska
before being drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the
third round of the 1990 NFL Draft. He played one year
with the Chargers before heading to the Denver Bron-
cos, and finally the New York Giants.
Ben Sirmans — Sirmans graduated from Immacu-
late Conception in 1988 and went on to play football at
the University of Maine. He joined the Maine coaching
staff after graduation, later moving on to Kent State,
Michigan State and Boston College before jumping to
join Jeff Fischer’s staff with the St. Louis Rams. He was
let go the year after the Rams moved to Los Angeles, be-
fore taking over running back coaching duties for the
Green Bay Packers in 2016.
Robert Torrey — The oldest athlete on our list, Tor-
rey graduated from Montclair in 1902, going on to play
for the University of Pennsylvania from 1902 to 1905,
when he was named First-Team All-American. He was
captain of Penn’s 1904 and 1905 unbeaten teams. He
was also involved in the Oct. 7, 1905, game which was
the apocryphal source of the legend that President The-
odore Roosevelt considered banning football due to the
brutality. Torrey was elected to the College Football Hall
of Fame in 1971.
David Tyree — Best known for the “Helmet Catch”
that helped the New York Giants win Super Bowl XLII,
Tyree earned three varsity letters and earned Second
Team All-State honors with the Mounties before grad-
uating in 1999. After completing an NFL career playing
for the Giants and Baltimore Ravens, Tyree took a po-
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sition as director of player development for the Giants.
BASEBALL
Yogi Berra — It’s unlikely there’s a person around
who is unaware of the 10-time World Series champion
with the New York Yankees, lovable mangler of the En-
glish language, and longtime Montclair resident. Ber-
ra helped create the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning
Center at Montclair State University in 1998. He was
posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Free-
dom in 2015. Edgewood Terrace, near Berra’s former
house, was commemorated as Yogi Berra Way in 2013;
the road is the subject of the famous Yogi-ism, “When
you get to a fork in the road, take it.”
Dale Berra — Yogi’s son was a dominant baseball
player at Montclair High School, and was drafted by the
Pittsburgh Pirates in 1975 with the 20th overall pick. He
was with the Pirates for their 1979 World Series cham-
pionship and also played for the Yankees and Houston
Astros during his career.
Len Coleman — A graduate of Montclair High
School in 1967, Coleman was the final president of the
National League before MLB abolished the position in
1999. Coleman played basketball and football in high
school, earning First Team All-State honors during his
senior year, and was the first black athlete to score a
touchdown for Princeton University.
George “Mule” Haas — Montclair native “Mule”
Haas was a center fielder for several teams including the
Philadelphia Athletics, with whom he appeared in three
straight World Series. His career spanned from 1925
through 1938.
Frank Herrmann — Herrmann played football,
baseball and basketball at Montclair Kimberley Acade-
my, graduating in 2002 as one of the few 1,000-point
scorers in the school’s basketball history. After playing
at Harvard University, Herrman was signed as an un-
drafted free agent by the Cleveland Indians and spent
parts of three seasons with Cleveland and one with the
Philadelphia Phillies and then signed a contract with
the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Profes-
sional Baseball. Herrmann was inducted into the MKA
Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011.
Gus Keriazokos — This former Montclair High
School athlete had two stints in the Major leagues, play-
ing for the Chicago White Sox in 1950 and then reap-
pearing to pitch for the Washington Senators in 1954,
and Kansas City Athletics in 1955.
Earl Williams — A 1965 MHS graduate, Williams
was selected in the first round of the 1965 MLB Draft
by the Milwaukee Braves. Though he was a pitcher at
Montclair High, Williams was converted into a full-time
first baseman and outfielder in the minors, and ended
up a catcher when he was called up the now-Atlanta
Braves in 1971. He clubbed 33 home runs that season, en
route to being named the National League’s Rookie of
the Year.
BASKETBALL
Bianca Brown — She graduated from MHS in 2000
as the program’s all-time leading scorer with more than
1,300 points, earning All-Essex County honors as a se-
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Athletes
from page E-52
nior. She returned to the program as a
head coach in 2010, and led MHS to back-
to-back NJSIAA sectional finals in 2013
and 2014, and back-to-back Essex Coun-
ty Tournament finals in 2014 and 2015.
Kristina Collymore — Collymore
broke Brown’s scoring record and held it
until Myisha Hines-Allen surpassed her
mark in 2014. The 2004 MHS grad to-
taled more than 1,500 points before go-
ing on to a successful four-year career at
Bucknell University.
Myisha Hines-Allen — Touted as a
five-star prospect by ESPN coming out
of MHS, Hines-Allen was also a 2014
McDonald’s All-American. At the Uni-
versity of Louisville she continued her
outstanding play, with honors including
ACC Tournament MVP, First Team All-
ACC, while also moving into third place
all-time in scoring and becoming the
second player in program history with
1,000 pts and 1,000 rebs. Hines-Allen
was drafted by the Washington Mystics
in 2018 and is former Mountie Josh Al-
COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
Myisha Hines-Allen
len’s cousin.
Kyrie Irving — The current Boston
Celtics point guard and 2016 NBA cham-
pion played ball at Montclair Kimberley
Academy in 2006-07 and 2007-08, his
freshman and sophomore seasons. He
averaged 26.5 points, 10.3 assists, 4.8
rebounds and 3.6 steals in his two years
before transferring to St. Patrick’s. At
the time, he was only the school’s sec-
ond 1,000 point scorer. In his sophomore
year, he led MKA to its first New Jersey
Prep B state title.
Major Jennings — The 1976 MHS
alum was cut from the MHS varsity
team as a junior, but worked hard and
earned a scholarship to American Inter-
national College, where he graduated as
the school’s fifth all-time leading scor-
er (1,730 points). He went on to coach
the MHS boys varsity team from 1993 to
2012, leading the Mounties to 300 wins
and a sectional title in 1994.
Ron Simpson — After graduating
from Immaculate in 1983, the Mont-
clair-born-and-raised Simpson went on
to an historic career at Rider Universi-
ty, eventually being inducted into their
Hall of Fame. According to his biogra-
phy on the Rider Hall of Fame website,
among his accomplishments was scoring
1,735 points in his career, and boasting
the highest scoring average ever among
1,000-point scorers at Rider.
SOCCER
Yael Averbuch — Averbuch ap-
peared in 26 games for the U.S. senior
Women’s National Team from 2007 to
2013, scoring her lone international goal
in qualifying for the 2010 CONCACAF
Gold Cup. Averbuch attended MHS but
didn’t play for the Mounties, opting to
focus on club soccer and the U.S. youth
national teams. After graduating from
the high school in 2005, Averbuch played
for the University of North Carolina, and
has since played both for the Women’s
Professional Soccer league as well as Eu-
ropean teams. She is currently a defend-
er for the Seattle Reign Football Club.
Tim Howard — While at Montclair
Kimberley Academy, and later North
Brunswick Township High School, How-
ard was more of a midfielder. But even
then it was clear goaltending was his fu-
ture. Howard has had a long career at the
professional club level, notably playing
for Manchester United and Everton in
England, but he is best known for his role
in the successful 2010 and 2014 World
Cup runs by the U.S Men’s National
Team.
Jill and Kayla Jennings — Both
sisters were four-year starters on wild-
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Athletes before graduating in 1970, Edwards

played for Johns Hopkins and helped
the Blue Jays reach three NCAA champi-
from page E-50 onship games in the early 1970s. He re-
turned to town to coach crosstown rival
ly successful MHS soccer teams; Kayla Montclair Kimberley Academy, where he
(2011-14) helping the Mounties win four led the Cougars to an overall Group IV
Essex County titles, three sectional titles state championship in 2012.
and a Group IV state championship in Gil Gibbs — While he never played a
2014; Jillian (2013-16) played key roles on game of lacrosse, Gibbs forever changed
three county title teams, two sectional fi- the history of the sport in Montclair, es-
nal winners and the 2014 group champi- tablishing it as the first nationally recog-
on. Both are now important midfielders nized public high school program out-
for Boston College, where Kayla will be a side of Maryland or Long Island. There’s
captain this upcoming season. not enough room to list his coaching ac-
Andrew Lombard — Lombard complishments, but among them are 11
played soccer at MHS and has also played state championships, 17 former players
for the New York Red Bulls Academy at named to collegiate All-American teams
the Under-14 level. After playing in col- and a 177-35 overall record. Gibbs died
lege for Northeastern and Ohio State, of cancer in July 1978, just six weeks after
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Lombard signed with the Red Bulls’ USL leading MHS to its fourth NJSIAA state
team, Red Bulls II, in March 2017. Coaches Gil Gibbs, left, and Homer Robinson turned Montclair lacrosse into a powerhouse title in six years.
program in the 1970s.
Meg Morris — Morris was the New Gary Mercadante — While he was a
Jersey Player of the Year in 2009 at MHS football player for MHS, Mercadante was
before becoming a three-year starter at Championships meet record in the 100 Richard Kenah — The 1988 Im- probably better known as a lacrosse play-
college soccer powerhouse North Caroli- meters, and upon graduating in 1998 she maculate High School graduate went on er. Oddly enough, though, he had never
na. She was a member of the U.S. Nation- continued to perform at a high level at to run track at Georgetown University, touched a stick before his freshman year.
al Team at the 2010 U-20 World Cup and the University of South Carolina. Among where he saw a lot of success both indi- Under the coaching of legendary Gil
has played professionally in the NWSL. her post-college accolades were an in- vidually and in relays including when Gibbs, Mercadante became known as a
Ingrid Wells — As a senior at MHS ternational championships gold medal won his first U.S. Championship at 1989 relentless defender and his physicality
in 2007, Wells helped the Mounties win in Paris on Team USA’s winning 4x400 Junior Nationals. Kenah took bronze at and aggression were a big reason for the
the Essex County Tournament en route relay in 2003. In 2005, she won a U.S. both the Indoor and Outdoor 1997 World Mounties’ 32-game win streak in his ju-
to earning Gatorade Player of the Year outdoor 100-meter dash championship Championships, placed second at 2000 nior and senior seasons, 1971 and 1972.
honors. Wells had a very successful col- and a gold medal in the World Champi- Olympic Trials and finished sixth in the Bob Ott — Ott was one of the top
lege career with the Georgetown Hoyas onships in Helsinki with the 4x100 relay first heat of the 800m during the 2000 players in New Jersey and a High School
and also trained with the U.S. women’s team. Olympics in Sydney, Austrailia. All-American as a senior in 1974 before
national team. She also played for sever- Miki Barber — Miki also had a stel- Ray Spivey — A member of argu- moving on to the University of Mary-
al professional clubs including interna- lar career at MHS and followed her twin ably the greatest high school track team land, where he was a three-time colle-
tional ones like Göteborg FC in Sweden sister to South Carolina after graduat- in state history, Montclair High’s 1955 giate All-American. Now a member of
and FFC Turbine Potsdam in Germany. ing in 1998. She went on to a remarkable squad, Spivey stood out. He set state and the Maryland Athletics Hall of Fame, Ott
career after MHS, winning four NCAA national records in both the 120-yard was a dominant faceoff man and mid-
TRACK & FIELD championships, a gold medal with the high hurdles and the 180-yard low hur- fielder who helped the Terrapins reach
Me’Lisa Barber — Along with her 4x100 relay team at the 2007 IAAF dles, and he joined fellow legends like four consecutive NCAA Final Fours.
twin sister Miki, Me’Lisa Barber dom- World Championships, and winning a Jim Wooster and Robert Bowen to help Homer Robinson — Yin to Gibbs’
inated track & field for Montclair High gold in the 100 and silver in the 4x100 at the Mounties set state records in both Yang, Robinson is honored each year
School. She still holds the Essex County the 2007 Pan Am Games. the 4x100-yard sprint relay and the with an all-day lacrosse celebration in
4x220-yard relay. He went on to serve as Anderson Park, culminating in the Blue
MHS track’s head coach for 42 years be- and White Alumni game. Robinson was a
fore retiring after the 2012 season. no-nonsense assistant under Gibbs and
Congratulations Montclair Steve Theobold — The 1986 Im- the two of them managed to take a bur-
On Your 150th Anniversary! maculate Conception graduate went on
to run track at Rutgers, where he holds
geoning sports program to national rec-
ognition throughout the 1970s.
the record for most points in the indoor
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Strange and quirky Montclair
by JAIMIE JULIA WINTERS
winters@montclairlocal.news
From unique traditions and history, to
strange hauntings and discoveries, Mont-
clair has some interesting lore. The follow-
ing stories are just some of Montclair’s in-
teresting history.
SALOONS
Circa 1894 the number of saloons went
from 16 to 48 in Montclair creating almost a
bar on “every dark corner.” A liquor license
was easily obtained. All it took was 12 men
to sign an application requesting a liquor
license and $40 payable to the County of
Newark, where a judge would approve the
application. A place to have a drink away
from the eyes of the wife and kids after a
long day at work was a much appreciated
attraction to the working poor in Montclair.
“Poor because all their money went to the
saloons,” according to Henry Whittemore’s
book, “History of Montclair Township.”
The Commonwealth Club for men had
its startup in keeping men out of the sa-
loons in 1904 in the original Union Con-
gregational Church. “Word got around of
plans to open a saloon north of Watchung
Avenue, in what would later be called Upper
Montclair. A couple of dozen men decided
to form a social organization. With sports
and games, they would try to keep young
men and boys away from spirits, and the
Commonwealth Club was born,” accord-
ing to the recorded history of the club. The
club offered socialization with other men
and entertainment in the ways of theat-
er, cricket and a bowling alley and even a
circus at one point. In 1907, construction
of an addition was complete. The church
was the ballroom.
The club was nearly lost before World
War I. The $10,000 debt-load cost them
their baseball and cricket field, which is lo-
cated where the Commonwealth Gardens
Apartments are now. Many Montclairites
attended the club’s baseball games. “With
crowds perched in a magnificent grand-
stand, our guys even took on the New York
Giants one day,” according to the history.
In 1984, a fire took the church portion
of the club. The tradition of the club con-
tinues in the addition and the club’s floats
continue to win awards in the July 4 parade.
GOLFING AT EDGEMONT
Before it was a park, Edgemont Park
was Montclair Golf Club in 1986, then Er-
win Golf Club. A committee for park con-
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On New Year’s Day, men would try to visit as many women as possible. They would not remove their coat or hat as they hoped to visit with
over 100 women.
struction in 1906 purchased the land for the
park with a $100,000 bond issue, follow-
ing a town referendum. William B. Dickson
backed a quarter of the bonds issued. There
is still a “No Golfing” sign up in the park
as residents continued to use the grounds
for putting practice, according to histori-
an Helen Fallon.
THE MUMMIFIED MR. MUNN
In 1877, a graveyard at Church and Trin-
ity streets and Bradford Place was dug up
to make way for development. The bod-
ies were exhumed to be moved to Rose-
dale Cemetery. But upon exhuming the
petrified Mr. Munn, it was discovered he
was missing his lower jaw and one leg. He
was put on display for all the town’s peo-
ple to see. “There was no fake about him,”
writes Henry Whittemore in “The History
of Montclair.”
NO BANKS
In Montclair’s early beginnings there
were no banks. Any passerby on Bloom-
field Avenue might be asked by shopkeep-
ers if they were going to Newark, and if so,
handed a wad of money and asked to make
a deposit in the Bank of Newark on their
behalf. One such passerby’s story was re-
called in the “Reminiscences of Montclair”
by Samuel Watkins: “Not even knowing me,
storekeepers came out as I was passing by
at noon and handed me money to depos-
it into their accounts in Newark.” In 1886
the first bank opened, Montclair Building
and Loans, and passers-by were relieved
of their duties.
NEW YEAR’S DAY TRADITION
New Year’s Day was considered the “gay-
est day of the year” in the late 1800s. Men
and women would don their finest, while
women would vie for the most callers by
preparing the best food, always reported
in the Montclair Times. The men would at-
tempt to make the most calls in one day -
sometimes up to hundreds according to the
book “Montclair in the Elegant Eighties.”
Each home visit typically took five minutes.
“No one took off their coat or were relieved
of their hat. Enough time was spent to say
‘Happy New Year’, mention the weather and
how remarkedly well the ladies looked on
the day,” according the book.
TIERNEY’S ODD SHAPE,
HAUNTINGS
Tierney’s Tavern is on Valley Road in a
section once known as Frog Hollow. The
Lenape Indians called this area home un-
til they were driven out by the English and
Dutch settlers in the late 1600s.
William and Kate Tierney farmed the
land that the tavern now sits on before the
bar was established in 1934. They soon be-
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came fixtures in the community, and were
known to take care of the neighborhood
during troubled times. The family still op-
erates the tavern to this day.
The place was investigated for paranor-
mal activity in 2013 after whispers and
voices were heard throughout the build-
ing. “The bartenders on the main floor of-
ten hear footsteps on the second floor long
after the building has been locked. The dis-
tinct sound of bottle caps hitting the walls
or floor is quite common, yet none are ever
found by the clean up crew,” according to
Bearfort Paranormal, who conducted the
investigation. Ghosts were quiet during
the 2013 investigation.
Tierney’s odd shape is due to a right-of-
way by the railroad that was supposed to
erect a third line next to the saloon, which
never happened, according to Fallon.
WASHINGTON AND LAFAYETTE
STAYED HERE
A tiny monument at 551 Valley Road
marks the spot where Gen. Lafayette re-
portedly stayed when Montclair was known
as Cranetown. According to the book “Rev-
olutionary War New Jersey,” on Oct. 23,
1780, Lafayette and his troops moved from
their encampment in Hawthorne now to
what is now Montclair. Lafayette, a French
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Quirks ship with Lafayette and the planned battle.

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officer, came to America to fight on the
American side in the Revolutionary War.
Three days later, they marched to Eliza-
bethtown — now Elizabeth — with plans
to attack British troops on Staten Island.
The attack never happened because Lafay-
ette’s boats never showed up. Lafayette and
his troops marched back to their position
at Cranetown on the 28th, where they re-
mained until the next day when they re-
turned to their camp at Hawthorne. The
small, fenced-in area on Valley Road con-
tains what tradition says was the stone
doorstep of the house Lafayette used as
a headquarters while in Cranetown. The
house is no longer standing.
Lafayette developed a close friendship
with George Washington. Another small
monument on Valley Road and Claremont
Avenue marks the spot Washington report-
edly used as headquarters on Oct. 26, 1780.
Placed on a boulder by the Daughters of
the Revolutionary War in 1922, the plaque
is now in front of an office where William
Crane’s house once stood. It reads, “used by
The monument placed where Lafayette stayed during the Revolutionary War. All that’s left is
the door step.
General George Washington as temporary
headquarters on October 26, 1780, while on
the march from Totowa now Paterson to
support Lafayette’s expedition against the
enemy on Staten Island.” However, accord-
ing to Revolutionary War New Jersey, there
is speculation about Washington’s stay in
Montclair. Washington’s and Lafayette’s
letters during this period make no mention
of Washington actually coming to Crane-
ADAM ANIK/FOR MONTCLAIR LOCAL
town while Lafayette was here. The source
that Washington stayed in Cranetown is an
article written over a century later by the
Rev. Oliver Crane, great-grandson of Wil-
liam Crane. He recounted family traditions
about Washington using the house as his
headquarters. Washington may have had
reason to briefly venture to Montclair dur-
ing that period and stopped at the Crane
house, especially considering his friend-
The house was there at the time when La-
fayette and his troops were at Cranetown.
WINTER WONDER
Following a snowstorm in Montclair,
families would take their sleds to Bloom-
field Avenue and sled the entire route from
Pompton Avenue to Elm Street. Today chil-
dren sled off the mound near the field off
Chestnut Street. Although some say the
mound was created by Native Americans,
Fallon said it was more likely created from
the soil from the Chestnut Street under-
pass or from digging out the pool.
ONE OF THE FIRST PENNY SHOPS
On Old Road opposite the school Miss
Mary Ellen Phippe ran a penny shop in
her front room off her living room, which
sold penny candy and toys. A tinkling bell
would alert her of a customer. “She would
become impatient with customers who
took 10 minutes on how to get the most en-
joyment from their penny. Marshmallow
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Quirks
from page E-58
the Elegant Eighties.” When children had
a dime, they could then purchase such en-
joyments as jacks, rubber balls, paper dolls
or marbles.” On the other side of the store
away from the children’s items, Miss Phi-
ppe also sold cigars and cigarettes to her
older customers.
CARRIE THE COW
The Wilbur family from Brooklyn, who
summered in Montclair in the 1880s, al-
ways brought along their livestock — dogs,
cats, horses, chickens and their well-loved
cow, Carrie. They claimed the grass never
needed mowing when they had the fami-
ly cow grazing the property, plus they had
the milk man at their door. Carrie became
a resident in 1886 when the family took up
permanent residency in Montclair.
THE PATERSON PEARL
In what is now known as Bonsal Pre-
serve where the Third River runs through,
mussels and pearls were abundant. The
river was once called Pearl River due to
COURTESY MONTCLAIR PUBLIC LIBRARY ARCHIVES
Carrie the cow summered here for years
before becoming a permanent resident in
the 1880s.
the discovery of the Queen Pearl or Pat-
erson Pearl found in the river’s mussel
population. The Paterson Pearl, a 93-grain
pink pearl, was one of the first freshwater
pearls to be discovered in the U.S. In 1857,
a poor shoemaker or carpenter named Da-
vid Howell discovered a large round pearl
weighing nearly 400 grains, in one of the
many mussels collected from Third Riv-
er. “His wife had transformed the mussels
into a delicious dish for dinner, by frying in
lard. While he was enjoying the fried edible
mussels with his wife, Howell accidentally
bit something hard in his mouth, and on
investigating found out that the hard sub-
stance he bit was an unusually large round
pearl. Unfortunately the heat and grease
used in the cooking had destroyed the beau-
ty and luster of the pearl, which was now
worthless. Had the pearl been discovered
in time, its estimated cost would have ex-
ceeded $25,000, and the pearl would have
become one of the largest freshwater pearls
ever discovered,” according to Dr. Shihaan
Larif of InternetStones.com.
JERSEY CIDER
In 1808, Joseph Baldwin owned so much
land on Orange Road that it was known as
the Baldwin neighborhood. He carefully
cultivated fruit trees. He was known from
as far as New York and Pennsylvania for
his Jersey cider and vinegar from his ap-
ple orchard, according to “Montclair in the
Elegant Eighties.”
BEWARE OF DOG
Matthew White and his wife, of Moun-
tain Way, lived in a two-room house where
they kept chickens and pigs. They kept a big
dog chained in the front of the home, which
children feared. They kept clear of his prop-
erty for years due to the dog’s ferocity. Upon
Mr. White’s death, “they found he was a
toothless dog,” according to “Montclair in
the Elegant Eighties.”
OPERA IN THE NIGHT
In the late 1800s, 100 workers were hired
from Italy to dig Montclair’s water system.
They lived in quarters built for the migrant
workers in an empty lot on Midland Av-
enue. In the evenings, they built bonfires
and sang Italian songs. Residents would
come out of their home and linger along
the street to hear the Italian songs, accord-
ing to “Montclair in the Elegant Eighties.”
THE FIRST TELEPHONE
The first switchboard was set up at the
Yost home on Bloomfield Avenue in 1882
for 50 lines. Only six Montclairites sub-
scribed. The first phone was owned by Mr.
Crump, who lived on Orange Road. In 1889,
Montclair phone subscribers grew to 55
and the switchboard was moved to the sec-
ond floor of Mullen’s Livery Stable. People
continued to use telegraphs as a preferred
“quick” communication, which took up to
a week. The early phones required a lot
cranking, operators, waiting, hangups and
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Gardens connect to community
by PATRICIA CONOVER
for Montclair Local
Montclair is home to several magnifi-
cent gardens that are open to the public.
These gardens have strong connections
to our community. They provide a place
of respite and peace. They are also educa-
tional. The gardens encourage everyone
in the community to participate in the
life of the garden.
For many Montclair residents, the gar-
dens and their environs are a source of
wonderful memories. John Sanders, who
grew up in a house near the Van Vleck
House and Gardens, recalls that Howard
Van Vleck was a force to be reckoned with.
“When I was a little boy I used to see
Mr. Van Vleck planting flowers, raking
leaves or picking up stones in the neigh-
borhood. He wore a big sun hat and he
was strong. Some neighbors thought he
was a landscaper,” said Sanders.
For Sanders, the memory was a life-
long lesson.
“He wasn’t working only on his own
property. Mr. Van Vleck believed in beau-
tifying the whole of Montclair. This was
his town and he was proud of it. If we all
pitch in, we can enhance our community,”
he said.
Elsa New, who lived in or near Mont-
clair for most of her life, is a lifelong gar-
dener.
“My father was a terrific gardener and
he had a greenhouse,” she said. “I had my
own victory garden during the Second
World War. After I married and had chil-
dren of my own, they became gardeners,
too.”
New’s mother, Helen Shiman, knew
Howard Van Vleck well. They worked on
several community projects together.
“My mother used to say that he was a
generous man who supported many local
initiatives. She thought he was an incred-
ible human being. She thought the world
of him. He was that kind of person,” said
New.
New moved to her own home in Mont-
clair in 1960.
“I used to take the walk to the Avis
Campbell Gardens because I lived off of
South Mountain Avenue. What a beauti-
ful area to walk in,” New said.
She took the Master Gardeners of Es-
sex County course in the 1990s.
“Jonathan Forsell was my instructor.
Our group met at the Presby Iris Gardens.
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Visitors stroll in Presby Memorial Iris Gardens.
He was a lovely man and a marvelous
teacher. He had a wealth of knowledge
about gardening,” New said.
New tended her own large garden
for many years and grew vegetables and
flowers. After her beloved husband, Bob
New, passed away, she moved to a condo-
minium.
Although she occasionally misses her
extensive gardens, she’s still an active
gardener.
“Now, I’m growing lots of magnificent
flowers in pots. I’m growing every kind
of flower– and they’re absolutely gor-
geous,” she said.
VAN VLECK HOUSE
& GARDENS
The gardens known today as Van Vleck
House & Gardens once belonged, as the
name suggests, to the Van Vleck family,
who have had a presence in Montclair
for over 150 years. Joseph Van Vleck Sr.
moved to Montclair from Brooklyn, New
York in 1868. He was the original owner
of the property and he built the first fam-
ily home in the early 1870s. That home
was torn down in the 1960s. The current
U-shaped mansion was designed and
built in 1916 by Joseph Van Vleck Jr. , an
architect. Howard Van Vleck, a skilled
architect and horticulturist, inherited
this house and its extensive gardens. He
moved into the home in 1939 and raised
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his family there, living there for 50 years.
Howard Van Vleck planted the re-
markable wisteria that graces the Doric
columns at the back of the house. The lav-
ish wisteria twists clockwise around one
column and counter-clockwise around
the other. Many garden aficionados make
the pilgrimage to Van Vleck House & Gar-
dens every year during the first weeks of
May to see the gorgeous flowering vines
of this 75-year-old tree. Howard Van
Vleck hybridized rhododendrons and
these beautiful hybrids are named for
family members. He also planted many
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colorful perennials and annuals.
The magnolia grandiflora “Edith The Bogue magnolia blossom.
Bogue” has pride of place beside the ele-
gant mansion. The magnificent magnolia it groups and is available to them for
tree was a gift to Howard Van Vleck from meetings, retreats and fundraisers. The
Edith Bogue, who cultivated this win- Montclair Foundation and The Van Vleck
ter-hardy tree, in 1961. There are only House & Gardens at 21 Van Vleck St. have
two: one is at Van Vleck, and the other in a significant influence on the communi-
the home of local rocker Warren Zanes, ty, providing education, music, and com-
formerly the home of Edith Bogue her- munity outreach programs that enhance
self. Zanes told Montclair Local that when life in Montclair.
he has questions about how to care for the
tree, he calls Van Vleck. BROOKDALE PARK ROSE GARDEN
In 1993, Howard Van Vleck’s heirs For almost 60 years, the Brookdale
donated the house and gardens to the Park Rose Garden has provided a place of
Montclair Foundation. The Montclair tranquility and beauty to Montclair res-
Foundation supports local nonprofit idents.
organizations and established the Van In June 1959, the North Jersey Rose So-
Vleck House & Gardens as a separate en-
tity. The house is a center for nonprof- See GARDENS, E-61
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Gardens
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ciety and the Essex County Parks Com-
mission established the Brookdale Park
Rose Garden, with a full name the Essex
County Rose Garden at Brookdale Park.
The Rose Garden spans 15,000 square
feet and features 25 beds of colorful hy-
brid tea, floribunda, shrub, hybrid musk,
polyantha, rugosa, and antique roses. The
Brookdale Rose Garden partners with
the Rutgers Master Gardeners of Essex
County and the Essex County Parks, Rec-
reation and Cultural Affairs Department
and features more than 100 varieties of
roses.
The Rutgers Master Gardeners of Es-
sex County, the Brookdale Rose Garden
Committee and community volunteers
fund and maintain the Rose Garden. It
is located in the Montclair section of
Brookdale Park; visitors can access it
from Grove Street.
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Wisteria blooms on Van Vleck House.
because even some old-time Montclair
residents don’t know it’s there. Avis
Campbell Gardens is one of the state’s
most beautiful gardens, located behind
the United Way Building at 60 South Ful-
lerton Ave. The Garden Club of Mont-
clair and gardening volunteers maintain
it. They tend to the garden on Tuesday
mornings from April to November.
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Avis Campbell was a professional
landscape artist. She was known for cre-
ating lovely patterns of color and texture.
She developed the design for the gardens,
creating the “wheel of life” which was
constructed around a fountain.
The mission of the Avis Campbell Gar-
dens, an organization created in 1982, is
to create and promote beauty and to ed-
ucate the public about gardens and gar-
dening. There is also a memorial to Essex
County residents who lost their lives on
9/11.
The Avis Campbell Gardens feature
many annuals and more than 100 variet-
ies of perennials.
PRESBY MEMORIAL IRIS GARDENS
One of the best-known gardens in
New Jersey is the Essex County Presby
Memorial Iris Gardens. This iris garden is
one of the largest in the U.S. , with more
than 1,500 varieties.
The Essex County Presby Memori-
al Iris Gardens were founded in 1927 in
tribute to Frank H. Presby, founder of the
American Iris Society. John C. Wister, a
landscape architect and horticulturist,
designed the gardens. Barbara Walther
was the president and curator of the Iris
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Gardens for its first fifty years. The gar-
dens are managed by the Citizens Com-
mittee of the Presby Memorial Gardens
of Montclair in partnership with the Es-
sex County Park System.
The iris is centuries old. The old French
kings used the fleur-de-lis as their icon,
representing the wild Iris found every-
where in France.
IN THIS ARTICLE:
• Van Vleck House & Gardens, 21 Van
Vleck St. , vanvleck.org
• Essex County Rose Garden at Brook-
dale Park, Watchung Avenue, essexcoun-
typarks.org
• Avis Campbell Gardens, 60 South
Fullerton Ave. , tinyurl.com/y8uwfxl9
• Presby Memorial Iris Gardens,
474 Upper Mountain Ave. , presbyiris-
gardens.org/wordpress/
SOURCES: Jenny Bakshi; Charles Fischer,
executive director of Van Vleck House &
Gardens; Montclair Public Library Archives;
Elsa New; John Sanders; Caroline Seebohm and
Peter C. Cook; “Great Houses and Gardens of
New Jersey.” Rutgers University Press: 2003. ;
vanvleck.org; MGEssex.org; presbyirisgardens.
org/wordpress/
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