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Bloomfield Residences, Streets beginning A through E
 
Note that some street numbers have been adjusted over the years, and that other changes, such as the names of streets, or errors may have occured since identfication was made.
 
 
[Add photo from Independent Press]
Arlington Avenue. Noll family homestead. Built ____; photo ____. Demolished about 1930 to make way for employee parking for General Electric plant. See also The New Town Crier, May 2003.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
[Add photo from archives]
Baldwin Street. Baldwin family residence. See The New Town Crier, Mar 2005.
 
 
[Add 1912 photo of Bay Ave houses from archives]
___ Bay Avenue. These homes belonged, from left to right, to the _____, _______, and Morris families.
 
[B18] 
81 Bay Avenue. Ephraim Morris house. Appears to have small original section (right side of photo), probably built 1700s. Main house built early-mid 1800s. Demolished in 1890s.
 
  
[B29]
__ Beach Street. Home of James C. and Mary (Butler) Beach. Original portion built about 1850, enlarged 1882; photo about 1900; demolished 1933.
  
 
[B71]
99 Beach Street. Arnold W. Fismer residence. Built after 1906; photo 1910. Still standing.
 
 
 
Bellevue Avenue (no street number). Possible Van Giesen homestead and later residence of Van Wagener and Garrabrant families. Built about 1690s; arguably the earliest home in present-day Bloomfield. Photo about 1912. See also Bloomfield Old & New, page 168; note, however, that this house was not the namesake of Stone House Plains, as debated--the alternative hypothesis, that the "stone house" was a natural rock formation, is correct. [still standing, or demolished, and if so, when?]
 
413 and 411 Berkeley Avenue. Built about 1900; photo about same time. [Still standing?] 
 
 
Berkeley and Clinton Avenues. Sydenham/Sidman residence. See The New Town Crier, Oct 2004 and Mar 2005.
 
 
[add pic BR38]
About ___ Bloomfield Avenue. Home of _____ Dodd, later J. B. Robinson.
 
 
 
[B25]
___ Bloomfield Avenue. Owner was ____ in 1906. Built about ____; photo about 1919; [demolished 19__].
 
 
 
[add pic BR40]
___ Bloomfield Avenue. Occupants/owners unknown.
 
 
 
[add pic BR45]
271 Bloomfield Avenue. Hampson family home, built about 18__, photo about 19__, demolished about 1941. Tower was modeled after the Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.
 
 
[B13]
Corner of Broughton Avenue and Watchung Avenue. Site of William Redfearn residence. Built shortly after picture, about ____. [Demolished, or still standing?]
 
 
[B102]
__ Church Street. Broughton family residence. Built about 1890; photo 1921. Still standing, though greatly modified. 
 
 
10 Clarendon Place.  Francis A. Schilling residence; Women's Club of Bloomfield from 19[45] to 19__; restored to private residence in ____. Build about 1890; photos about 1925 and 2000, respectively. Upper photo shows view from Clarendon Place; lower photo shows view from Hazelwood Road.
 
 
18 Clarendon Place.  
 
 
40 Conger Street. Troy Towers apartments. Erected 19__, photo 1962. These 15-storytwin buildings, totaling 346 units, are the tallest ever built in Bloomfield.
 
 
 
Day Street.  
 
 
[add pic BR99]
___-___ East Passaic Avenue.
 
 
534 East Passaic Avenue. Homestead of unidentified family. Built about 17__; photo about 1936. Featured in Colonial Dutch Houses of _________.
 
 
[add pic BR41]
595 East Passaic Avenue. Powelson/Paulsen family homestead.
 
 
 
612 East Passaic Avenue.  Photo taken 2 April 1975; likely owner was Austin Sammon.
 
57 Ella Street.  
 
 
 
[add pic BR41]
East of Elm Street. Richard Kingsland Schuyler house, built 1886, photo about 1910.
 
 
 
__-__ Elston Street. Residences of _____, _____, _____, _____ families. Photo taken winter 1922.
 
 
 
35 Ernst Avenue.  Built 1929 for police chief ____ Huddy. Photo taken 1958. 1974 owners were Mr and Mrs Karl E Johnson.
 
 
[Add image of 1856 painting]
__ Broad Street (where new gymnasium of High School now sits). Ira Dodd house. Build about 1800; lithograph dated 1856. Demolished about 1912 to make way for Bloomfield High School building. See also The New Town Crier, Sep 2006.