History
The society was founded in 1845 at Trenton by intellectual and business leaders of New Jersey, most prominently Joseph C. Hornblower, Peter D. Vroom and William Whitehead.
Its original headquarters in Newark were located on Market Street, In 1931 it left Downtown Newark for a large colonial-style building partially paid for by Louis Bamberger in Broadway, east of Branch Brook Park.
In 1997 the Historical Society returned downtown, to 52 Park Place, on Military Park. The new home is a Georgian style building vacated by the Essex Club that was designed by Guilbert & Betelle. The building was built in 1926 and had been added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 22, 1991. In its first year in the downtown location visits increased almost fivefold.
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