Sunday, February 4, 2024

John T. Mahorney: Political Candidate, Businessman, Writer, and Inventor

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      Over the past several years, a few local historians have been researching Gertrude Mahorney, the first African-American in the state o...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Who Lived Here? The Schoenholtz Family

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      John Jacob Schoenholtz and his wife, Alma Glore Schoenholtz, moved into their beautiful Arts-and-Crafts-era home at 240 South Emerson ...
Monday, January 1, 2024

Many Changes to Emerson Avenue Home Over the Years

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      In the spring of 1903, Charles O. and Jessie Pearl Shimer sold several lots on Auvergne Avenue in southwestern Irvington for $5000. Mr...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

New York Street Home Then and Now

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         Sometime in the mid-1940s, a member of the Shimer family snapped an image of Edna Webster Shimer as she walked up to her home at 58...
Monday, December 11, 2023

Shimer Family Purchased New York Street Bungalow

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      Thomas and Edna Webster Shimer bought their relatively new bungalow at 5815 East New York Street in 1930. They were not the first fami...
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Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Family Hosted Wedding in Bosart Avenue Home

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  A Beautiful Day for a Wedding--Saturday, April 2, 1921      Residents near the intersection of North Bosart Avenue and East New York Stree...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Emerson Avenue Used to Have a Median Strip

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          In the early twentieth century, local Irvington residents traveled on many brick streets including South Emerson Avenue. Additiona...