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My Newark Story: Newark Landmarks Bingo (1 Teacher’s Key and 30 Boards)

The Performing Arts Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Riverfront Park The Hahne Building The Center (NJPAC) Heart

The only park along Newark’s Hahne and Company was once Facing , the Opened in 1997 under Mayor The fifth largest cathedral in Passaic River, Riverfront Park was one of the largest and most historic Newark Public Library Sharpe James, NJPAC is one of North America and the seat of created when community groups popular department stores in traces its beginnings to the the largest performing arts the Roman Catholic Archdiocese came together to demand a Newark. It closed in 1986 and Newark Library Association, centers in the U.S. Over 9 million of Newark. Pope John Paul II green space be created where remained abandoned until it which was formed in 1847. Forty people have visited since its visited the Cathedral in 1995. residents could have access to reopened as apartments and years later, the people of Newark opening. the river. businesses in 2017. approved the founding of a Free Public Library. The Main Library was completed in 1901. Broad and Market Intersection Broad Street Train Station Newark Liberty International Airport

The original Newark City Subway The site of the city’s earliest Built in 1901-1903, the station’s The Newark Airport was the first opened in 1935, connecting A 6-acre triangular park in settlement and the modern historic architecture includes an international airport to open in Broad Street and the Heller . Military Park center of the downtown. Broad elegant clock tower and a brick the New York City area in 1928. It Parkway. The final segment was was a training ground for soldiers and Market was once considered and stone façade on the station’s is one of the busiest airports in completed in 2006, with service from 1667 to 1869, at which to be the busiest intersection in main building. The original line of the U.S. and served a record of from Penn Station to the Broad point it became the town the United States and is still the tracks was over 400 miles, 40 million passengers in 2016. Street Station. commons. The park was busiest in Newark. connecting Buffalo, NY to renovated in 2014. Hoboken.

Essex County Courthouse Eberhardt Hall Greetings from Newark Postcard Old First Presbyterian Church Lincoln Park (Free Space)

The Courthouse is known for its Eberhardt Hall opened in 1857 as One of the thousands of historic The oldest church in Newark, the Along with Military and statue completed the Newark Orphan Asylum, a postcards from the early 20th Old First Church dates back to Washington Park, Lincoln Park in 1911. , the home for children without century collected by the Newark 1666 when Robert Treat left the was one of the three original sculptor of the statue, is most parents. Today, the gothic-style Public Library. New Haven colony in Connecticut commons in Newark. It was once well-known as the sculptor of Mt. building is part of the NJIT to found Newark. The known for being a neighborhood Rushmore. campus. underground tunnels in the of jazz clubs and theatres. church hid slaves during the Underground Railroad. Branch Brook Park Beth Israel Medical Center Prudential Center Kruger-Scott Mansion

The Ironbound is a historically Created in 1895 by the Essex The Beth Israel Medical Center The Prudential Center opened in The 40-room mansion was built industrial, immigrant County Parks Commission, opened in 1908 and was run 2007 as a world class stadium for in 1880 by Gottfried Krueger, a neighborhood in Newark. The Branch Brook is the oldest county largely by Newark Jewish the New Jersey Devils hockey man who made his wealth name “Ironbound” comes from park in the U.S. With over 4,300 immigrant community in the team and other concerts and owning breweries. Louise Scott, the train tracks that surround the cherry blossom trees, Branch South Ward. It is known for being events. Before the center was the first African American woman neighborhood. Today, it is known Brook Park has more of these the birthplace of many famous built, it had been a graveyard for to be a millionaire in Newark for its large Portuguese trees than any other park in the Newarkers and for its medical the Old First Presbyterian Church. operated a beauty school out of community. country. advances in heart surgery. the mansion for many years. It is abandoned today.

Weequahic Park The Newark Skyline The Sydenham House The Mount Pleasant Cemetery The Ballantine House

The 40-acre cemetery was built in Now part of the Newark The park was home to the Lenni- Some of the tallest buildings in Built around 1710, the Sydenham the Victorian style and is home to Museum, the Ballantine House Lenape Native Americans and the Newark’s skyline include the House is the oldest home in the graves of many prominent was home to multiple word “Weequahic” means “Head National Newark Building (465 Newark and one of only two Newarkers such as John F. generations of the Ballantine of the cove” in the Lenape ft), Eleven 80 (448 ft), and the homes in the city from the 18th Dryden, the founder of family, who made their wealth language. The park has been Prudential Building (374 ft). New century. It sits on the edge of Prudential, and Seth Boyden, the brewing beer. It can be visited known throughout its history for construction continues to add to Branch Brook Park and has been inventor of patent leather. during regular Museum hours. its boating, horse racing, and the large buildings in the skyline. continuously inhabited since it golfing. was built.

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