Montclair A Postcard Guide to Its Past
Montclair A Postcard Guide to Its Past by Philip Edward Jaeger, published by Arcadia Publishing in 2004, is an illustrated volume comprising 127 pages in English. This book presents a visual journey through Montclair, New Jersey, showcasing the town’s transformation over the last century. Through a collection of approximately two hundred postcards, many of which are published for the first time, readers can explore the early 1900s landscape and see how the town has evolved with changing styles and fashions.
In this edition, readers will find a rich depiction of familiar landmarks such as the Montclair Art Museum and the Marlboro Inn, alongside glimpses of historical sites like the original Japanese-style mansion on Upper Mountain Avenue. The postcards serve as a window into the past, revealing the architectural and cultural shifts that have shaped Montclair. This book will appeal to those interested in local history and the broader narrative of American towns in the Middle Atlantic region.
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Montclair, New Jersey, like most American towns, has grown dramatically over the course of the last one hundred years. Much of the early 1900s landscape has been disguised, and the town has come to reflect the popular styles and fashions of changing eras. Streets have been paved, the facades of commercial buildings have been updated, and
homes have been altered to reflect contemporary tastes and accommodate modern conveniences. This volume of approximately two hundred postcards from the author’s collection, most never before published in book form, captures Montclair as it was in the early twentieth century. The reader will see familiar landmarks such as the Montclair Art Museum, the Marlboro Inn, and the Bellevue Theater as they originally appeared, and discover the vanished predecessors of the Japanese-style mansion on Upper Mountain Avenue and the Rockcliffe Apartments off Crestmont Road.
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