Monmouth Beach Golf Club
Monmouth Beach was likely home to the first formal golf course on the Jersey Shore.* Just before the turn of the century, investors purchased...
MB Feature
Monmouth Beach “Yankees”
Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra and other New York Yankee baseball greats hanging out in Monmouth Beach? Yes, it happened. Most shore area...
Long Branch: Grand Hotels of Past
Magnificent seashore lodgings from a city’s glory days I’m endlessly fascinated by the magnificent seashore hotels that sprawled along the Long Branch coastline. These...
High Living in Monmouth Beach
“The Shores” and “The Admiralty” — Oceanfront High-Rises Now Rule the Coast Seeking to increase town ratables — then badly needed to fund a...
Channel Club Tower: Shrewsbury’s Sentinel
I grew up literally in its shadow — watching a tower and massive steel and concrete auto garage fill the large riverfront acreage we...
Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge Images
Photos of a shore crossing … Since the first bridge was opened in December 1872, a total of four have connected northern Sea Bright...
Pleasure Bay Images …
In an effort to expand beyond the declining oceanfront hotel scene as the new 20th century dawned, Long Branch developers their turned attention to...
“The Reservation” — Long Branch’s Cottage Colony
By Michael Sheehan Visitors to Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park in the City of Long Branch may notice a big house standing alone near the...
West End Cottages
It was a fabulous architectural representation of Long Branch at the apex of its Glided Age glory — the West End Cottages. Situated on...
About My Research Efforts …
For My Readers … As I continue to develop my website — lately though the addition of many local photos — I’ve reached beyond...
Long Branch and the Presidency
Although seven American chief executives have visited Long Branch, I only dug deep on two: Presidents Grant and Garfield. Ulysses S. Grant: 18th American...
Peninsula House: Shore Splendor at Sea Bright
Known by locals as the “P House” — the iconic seashore structure dates back to Sea Bright’s late 19th century resort glory days. The...
Long Branch’s Other Hospital
Dr. E.C. Hazard Memorial Hospital … This mostly forgotten city charity healthcare institution at Washington and Dewey Streets — known as the “hospital with...
What’s Left in Monmouth Beach …
For housing good or ill, Monmouth Beach has become a tear-down community. If you grew up in the town say 25 years ago, it...
MB Post Office — A Century of Service
The Monmouth Beach Post Office — it’s had three homes in borough history — dates back nearly 100 years. In April 1924, John A....
America’s Storm Warriors: MB Chapter
The US Life-Saving Service — Remembering Heroes In the mid-1800s along the US coastline — between Cape Cod and Cape Hatteras — there was...
