The Woman's Club

The house above was the early home of The "Women's Club" House, on the east side of Prospect Street between William Street and Carleton Street (now Carlton); below: the house can be seen on an 1895 Sanborn map

Sometime between 1895 and 1906 a new building for the "Woman's Club" was built on the NW corner of Prospect Street and William Street as seen in the photos below.

Below: the new "Women's Club of Orange" building as drawn on a 1911 Sanborn map; the new building was on the Northwest corner of Prospect Street and William Street diagonally across from the house shown at the top .

Seabury and Johnson

In 1874, Robert W. Johnson and George J. Seabury, working in East Orange, developed a medicated adhesive plaster with a rubber base. The business was listed as on Glenwood Avenue (although the building with the tower appears to front on Franklin Street), between Glenwood Place and Franklin Street. The business was in Doddtown only 500 feet from Franklin School. 

More photos at The Manufacturer's Village website

Below: 1895 Sanborn insurance map

Below 1911 Sanborn insurance map (note that Sanborn was unable to provide details of the 1911 interior because access to the property was refused)  

Masonic Temple and Ormont Theater

Above: the Masonic Temple was at 506/508 Main Street between Prospect Street and Ashland Avenue, diagonally across from the Halsted Street/Main Street intersection; it was also the Lyceum (a lyceum is a public hall designed for lectures or concerts) in addition to housing the Masonic Hope Lodge and other Masonic lodges. In a 1932 city directory the building is still referred to as the Lyceum ("moving pictures") but in a 1934 directory it was called the Ormont Theater (Ormont Movie Theater). At some point a new entrance building was added between the original building and the Main Street sidewalk along with an Ormont Theater marquee. The building was demolished about 2000.

Although it appears that the building wasn't constructed until about 1911/12, announcements of it started appearing in 1902.

Below: 1949

Below: 1959

Doddtown in East Orange

Above: looking west on Dodd Street across the Dodd/Prospect intersection

Below: the NW corner of the Dodd/Prospect intersection on a 1911 Sanborn insurance map

Below: looking north across the Dodd/Prospect intersection

Above: looking west along Dodd Street where Franklin Avenue (now named Cleveland Terrace) and Fulton Avenue (now, Colonial Terrace) meet Dodd Street; Franklin School would be to photographer's left

Below: the above intersection on a 1911 map

Below: Ferry Methodist Episcopal Church at the NW corner of  Dodd Street and Cottage Place