Monmouth Beach Club Images
The Monmouth Beach Bath & Tennis Club (known popularly as “The Club”) is on Ocean Avenue. I consider this coastal building to be a...
Author: Greg Kelly
Bridges, Boats and a Boisterous Inn
Since Monmouth Beach is pretty much surrounded by water — a creek, a river and an ocean — bridges are necessary. The borough once had...
Monmouth Beach Library History
An informal public library in Monmouth Beach got its start in Borough Hall in March 1925, when the borough council gave permission to a...
MB Bathing Pavilion Images …
It’s bearing down on a centennial birthday — in a couple of years — the Monmouth Beach Bathing Pavilion (MBBP) will be 100 years old....
“Monmouth Beach-to-Saratoga”
Every year around this time I think about my late father-in-law, James F. Norton, Jr. Each summer he would make his sojourn from Monmouth...
Monmouth Beach’s Founding Father
The founder and first settler of the NJ coastal area today known as Monmouth Beach (other than the true first settlers, Native American Indians)...
A Tale of Two Sisters …
They are forever elusive to me. I wish so much I could have known them better. To be with them — if only for...
Monmouth Beach Educates a Doctor
When my father was in his late 40s he ran for a seat on the Monmouth Beach School Board of Education (as if he...
Monmouth Beach Golf Course
Monmouth Beach was likely home to the first formal golf course on the Jersey Shore.* In 1896, the Monmouth Beach Association purchased the land...
Jay W. Ross: MB’s Ultimate Philanthropist
Ironically, the main objector to Henry Mihm’s plans to develop the Shrewsbury River shoreline in the 1940s was Jay W. Ross, who would build...
