Get your copy of How Frank Hague Left His Mark On Jersey City, an 8-page pull-out feature only in The Jersey Journal and available at newsstands on Friday, October 11, 2024, or read the extended version via the NJ.com paywall portal.

Announcing the Hudson County Open Space, Recreation & Historic Preservation Trust Fund 2024 Recommendations, including six sites in Jersey City.

Read the article in the latest digital issue of The Architect's Newspaper.

Comments will be accepted through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, October 13, 2024. Please get involved with Liberty State Park’s future transformation for all!

View photos by Reena Rose Sibayan of The Jersey Journal for the recent unveiling of the Lafayette Trail historical marker at Jersey City's ancient Five Corners commercial district.

Jersey City's historic Reservoir No. 3 is reopened to the public — but not without controversy and conflict with the local preservation community.

At the September 16, public meeting of the JC Historic Preservation Commission, commissioners will hear, review, and act on several demolition applications being put forth from various developers and their attorneys. PLEASE GET INVOLVED!

Join us tonight, Thursday, September 12, at the historic Barrow Mansion to honor our incredible pantheon of 2024 Preservation Awards winners!

Read the Jersey City Free Public Library's recent press release about the Priscilla Gardner Main Library's Chief Librarian John Beekman, one winner of our prestigious 2024 J. Owen Grundy History Award!

Tickets to the Preservation Awards event on Thursday, September 12, 2024, are still available — get them now!

Learn how a Civil War-era industrial building in Jersey City's historic Lafayette neighborhood was reimagined for contemporary living!

Preservation New Jersey (PNJ) has just released its PNJ 2025-2027 Strategic Plan — download it today and learn how well-organized preservation non-profit organizations operate and implement their goals, initiatives, and programs!

Read the preservation update for Sacred Heart Church on MLK Drive in Jersey City.

A stately late-19th-century house was torn down this week on Glenwood Avenue in the McGinley Square district.

Article by Ron Zeitlinger for The Jersey Journal

Friday, July 26, 2024

Summer Interludes by John Gomez

A recap of the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy's insightful panel on balancing growth and historic preservation, highlighting media coverage and event recording.

Last month the 100+-year-old Corte & Co. meat provisions factory and generational family butchery was demolished — along with an adjacent building dating to circa-1872 — as the busy intersection flanking the Bergen Arches is readied for another massive Journal Square-area residential tower.

To us, even vintage neon signs are worthy of preservation!

PRESERVATION NEW JERSEY has just released its 2024 top-ten list of threatened historic sites and places in New Jersey — timed strategically with the start of Preservation Month!