The view of Villani’s Restaurant in 1950 from Route 17, where patrons could enjoy “the finest food and and fountain service” either indoors or outdoors. The restaurant stood where the Howard Johnson’s used to be on Route 17, which has since been integrated into the Interstate Shopping Center.
Since the last time we saw it, the entrance to the town at Main Street and Franklin Turnpike where St. John’s Epsicopal church sits now features paved roads, a street light, curbs, and a number of new trees.
The postcard shows what is now the entrance to town at the intersection of Main Street and Franklin Turnpike as it appeared in 1908.
The first St. Paul’s Church was dedicated by Bishop John O’Connor in 1904 for the some 43 adults and 43 children that made up the Roman Catholic population of Ramsey at the time.
The school was founded in 1915 by the Salesian Fathers and Brothers (a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Saint John Bosco) after a fire destroyed the Salesian school in Hawthorne, New York.
Back on June 23rd the featured post card was of the original Dater School building. This postcard features a view from farther down the street “in color”, post the renovations of 1923.
Starting in 1912, the original Dater School building (torn down in 2006 to build the new grammar school) was the high school in Ramsey until 1937 when it switched to housing grades K-8.
In honor of local politics, today’s post is an original 98 year old letter from the webmaster’s collection, sent to Ramsey’s first mayor, Dr. John B. Finch by the Republican County Committee.
This post card shows one of the previous locations of the Ramsey Post Office, now you may recognize it as the same building Morano’s Italian Gourmet Market is in.
A home sometimes referred to as the ‘American Versailles’, the Crocker-McMillin Mansion, completed in 1907, was actually modeled by architect James Brite after Bramshill House in England. The home ran with forty full time staff. It is now on the market, offered at an eye popping $33 million dollars. Considered to be part of Ramsey […]
Interstate Bowling Lanes. Inc partially opened a 40-lane bowling center in Ramsey. N. J. during October 1958.
A home sometimes referred to as the ‘American Versailles’, the Crocker-McMillin Mansion, completed in 1907, was actually modeled by architect James Brite after Bramshill House in England. The home ran with forty full time staff. It is now on the market, offered at an eye popping $33 million dollars. Considered to be part of Ramsey […]
Finch Park didn’t exist back then of course, but the suggestion in the map below, is that Major General Benjamin Lincoln marched through Ramsey. This map appears in the work of historian Robert A. Selig, Ph. D. who completed a historical and architectural survey in 2006 for the New Jersey Historical Trust. His multiple reports […]
While it would be years before it became its own Borough on March 10, 1908, the Bergen County Atlas of 1876 does include an inset in its map of Hohokus Township entitled ‘Ramsey’s Station’, referring to the train station built on land acquired from Peter J. Ramsey. Early landowners, the Erie Railroad lines, and early […]
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