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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
EAST ORANGE (170 alt., 68,020 pop.) is the largest of "The Oranges" and closest to the center of Newark, being less than two miles distant via Orange Street. Two of its three main streets, Central Avenue and Main Street, are closely packed for blocks with shopping areas marked by specialty shops, good restaurants, and business establishments. These sections achieve a note of smartness with attractive branches of New York department stores.
Street after street of resolute late-Victorian frame houses characterize East Orange as a residential center. Except for an occasional bungalow, recent building has been limited to large apartment houses that tower above the city's spacious, landscaped one-family dwellings. An uneven glow from the gas street lamps and a vista of fine oaks and maples invariably warn the Newarker that he is "over the line."
Newarkers first "went over" to what is now East Orange in 1678. The community remained a part of Orange until the Civil War when its Republicanism forced it to break from the parent city and assume the independent status of a town, and the name of East Orange. For the balance of the century it grew slowly; its population was only 30,000 when it was incorporated as a city in 1899.
Although East Orange has never become a manufacturing center, since 1900 a number of industrial plants have been established throughout the city. Among the more important products are electric motors and generators and miscellaneous machinery.
Citizens take pride in their $1,000,000 MUNICIPAL CENTER, completed in 1929. The buildings are impressively designed in Italian Renaissance style, and they house one of the State's acknowledged exemplary governments. Outstanding achievements of the mayor and council government are the city's health and recreation programs. The public school system has a high ranking, and the library system includes the central building and three branches.
The city is the home of two institutions of higher education. UPSALA COLLEGE, Springdale Ave. and Prospect St., was founded in 1893 and is conducted by the Swedish Lutheran Church. Approximately one-third of its 400 students who take liberal arts courses are of Swedish extraction. All of the 14 college buildings, except a girls' dormitory and the chapel, are old frame mansions renovated for educational use. The PANZER COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND HYGIENE, 139 Glenwood Ave., has an enrollment of 150 students who prepare for teaching physical education. The plant consists of an administration building, a large gymnasium, a library, a fully equipped laboratory and several classrooms.
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