Free Public Library, Jersey City, New Jersey

[LIB7011] - Our mission is to study Jersey City's colorful past and to provide the public with entertaining accounts of our bygone eras. Our studies rely upon the resources of the library's New Jersey Room, as well as oral histories, public information and legend.

About the Jersey City Historical Project:
Location: Main Library - Fourth Floor
472 Jersey Avenue, Jersey City

The Historical Project Office is not open to the public. Visitors are welcome by appointment.

Contacts: Bob Leach, Director
201-547-6951
bobleach@jclibrary.org

Public Library, Jersey City, New Jersey

[LIB6103] - August 16, 1899, the cornerstone was set in place. On January 14, 1901 the new building, today's main library, was dedicated. [Website]

1907 Public Library, Jersey City, New Jersey

[LIB0353] - On May 13, 1889, seven men met in the City Hall office of Mayor Orestes Cleveland to organize the first free public library for Jersey City. These newly appointed library trustees chose as their president Leonard Gordon, M.D., a long-term advocate for a public library. Their first task was to file a suit to force the city's Finance Board to appropriate the funds mandated by state law. Read more about this great library here.

Snippet: Jersey City Public Library 1907

From the Library Journal, January 1907, Volume 32