Monmouth Beach Life Photo Collection
Digital Discovery: Facts & Photos on Sea Bright, Long Branch, and Sandy Hook … My goal with this website has been to create something...
Author: Greg Kelly
“Wooden Palaces” of Monmouth Beach
Spectacular seashore mansions … One way the wealthy like to flex is through the building of huge houses. A fetching feature of Monmouth Beach...
Peninsula House: Shore Splendor
It’s hard to call it Sea Bright’s most iconic oceanfront building. There have been so many others. But few, if any, had a nickname....
MB Fire Company Images …
Always Ready & Brave … First organized in 1905, Monmouth Beach Fire Company service actually predates the borough by a year. Most borough residents...
My “Monmouth College” Path …
My early days at Monmouth College were potentially very gloomy times. By 1981 my home life was a bit rough. I’d lost two young...
Green Inn — Galilee Glamor
Built by a “Millionaire Sportsman” … The wealthy founders of “Monmouth Beach” in the early 1870s were determined to avoid the “hotel crowd” scene...
Long Branch Hotels: Great Views
Grand oceanfront lodgings highlight a city’s glory days … The magnificent seashore hotels that once sprawled along the Long Branch coast are endlessly fascinating...
Long Branch Casino: City Crowning
Early city monument … The Long Branch Casino — majestically considered and placed where the city’s two greatest boulevards meet — had a “stormy...
Long Branch Mayor’s History
History Highlights: Long Branch City Mayor … There’s been a certain stability to the office of Long Branch mayor over the past 50 years....
Highland Beach — Playground Past
“Sandy Hook’s historic resort paradise” The beginning of Highland Beach as a seashore resort dates back to the “Gilded Age.” This iconic shore location...
Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge Images
Gateway to the Jersey Shore … Since the first bridge opened in 1872, a total of four river crossings have connected Sea Bright and...
US Life-Saving Service at Takanassee Lake
The were revered as heroes of the Atlantic Coast. Members of the United States Life-Saving Service had a code: “you have to go out,...
10 Things I Love About the Beach
Ready for Summer ’26 … As another Jersey Shore summer season approaches I am reminded — the beach is here to be shared with...
Monmouth Beach Club — Over 100 Years
The Monmouth Beach Bath & Tennis Club (known popularly as “The Club”) rests along Ocean Avenue. This fabulous Atlantic coast building is the definitive...
“Road Scholars” — Borough Public Works Leadership
“Learning From the Best” … Monmouth Beach homeowners are absolutely and correctly proud about the way their town looks. Appearances count big-time in real...
Long Branch Pier & Boardwalk History
I witnessed the incineration of a city landmark … It had an aura and electricity all its own. Today, few people know, and even...
