The Asbury Park Historical Society will hold their annual reorganization meeting Thursday, Jan. 16 at the city’s public library beginning at 7 p.m. Restoring the historic Stephen Crane House, a five-year plan of objectives, and increasing membership for 2014 will be some of the subjects discussed, according to a news release from the organization. Charlie and Pam […]

The Asbury Park Historical Society is set to sponsor a gospel concert to honor the sounds of the city’s west side. On Saturday, Sept. 28, a “Gospel Explosion” concert will pay tribute to the city’s West Side Missionary Jubilaires, one of Asbury’s oldest and most famous gospel groups, according to a press release from the historical society. The […]

The Asbury Park Historical Society will hold a ceremony Sunday to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the S.S. Morro Castle disaster. The ceremony will take place at 1 p.m. in front of the Morro Castle monument just south of the entrance to the Paramount Theater, according to a press release from the Asbury Park Historical […]

The Asbury Park Historical Society is trying its hand at online fundraising with its launch of an Indiegogo account to raise $30,000. The $30,000 is intended to offset costs associated with the society’s proposed purchase of the Stephen Crane House, which was built around 1877 and is likely the oldest building standing in the city, […]

About one year ago, the public learned that six tons of antique copper panels dating back to 1929 had gone missing. The rectangular panels had adorned the sides of Convention Hall [pictured above] since the building’s construction. Despite two police investigations, the case remains unsolved. Next week, state historic preservation officials will visit the city […]

A beachfront search for the lost New Era monument yielded no results this weekend, and the Asbury Park Historical Society [APHS] is looking at replicating the 19th-century artifact. Asbury Park’s founder, James A. Bradley, erected the monument to the New Era shipwreck in around 1893, APHS member Don Stine said. The year after its installation, […]

The green-tinged decorative copper panels that went missing from Convention Hall recently are largely considered to be gone for good, but an official from Madison Marquette announced at last night’s council meeting the boardwalk redeveloper will replace them. “It is a tragedy,” said Keith Ortner, Madison Marquette’s vice president of development. “We as a company […]

A report by the Asbury Park Police Department says 30 antique copper panels once on Convention Hall were reported stolen on Aug. 2, 2011, although the general public was not made aware of the loss until last month. City manager Terence Reidy said today he was notified of the incident in August, but saw no need to […]

Reacting to the theft of thirty-four decorative copper panels once on Convention Hall, the Asbury Park Historical Society will request the city council and boardwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette disclose more information about the incident. At an emergency meeting on Saturday, the Historical Society Board of Trustees — several shown above — also tentatively agreed to ask […]

The Asbury Park Historical Society will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow to develop a plan of action for recovering a historic set of panels.  The panels, pictured above, reportedly went missing from Convention Hall last year. Boardwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette reported the 34 panels stolen from Convention Hall, said Celia Morrissette Johnson, president of the […]