MB Library History & Images …
An informal public library in Monmouth Beach got its start in Borough Hall on Beach Road in March 1925, when the borough council gave...
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“Wooden Palaces” of Monmouth Beach
The town’s spectacular seashore mansions … One way that the wealthy like to flex is through the building of huge houses. A fetching feature...
The Octagon — Sea Bright’s Grandest Hotel
Few more magnificent structures have ever graced the Jersey Shore. The Octagon Hotel in Sea Bright began as a private cottage. Built in 1870...
Monmouth Beach School Images …
Learning at the beach … The Monmouth Beach Public School first opened its doors to students and teachers in October 1909. The educational facility...
MB Police Department Images …
The borough’s true blue … The origin of Monmouth Beach Police Department dates to April 1906 with the appointment of a police committee by...
A Building Grows in Sea Bright …
“The Break” coming to “The Neighborhood” The first residential high-rise in downtown Sea Bright is coming together smartly (the image below is a model)....
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...
Vivian Johnson: Shore Nightclub Queen
She was the fashionable female contingent of the borough’s most famous political family. Vivian Johnson, born in March 1901, was a trend-setter and accomplished...
Fine Art in Monmouth Beach
A grand glance of old Monmouth Beach … She is the borough’s “artist-in-residence” — Gail H. Gannon — now in perpetuity upon her passing...
The Normandie Hotel — Sea Bright’s Wooden Palace
The magnificent Normandie-by-the-Sea Hotel in Sea Bright was “exclusive and expensive” in its all-too-brief prime. It had a lot to live up to. The...
MB Bathing Pavilion History
The concept of a borough-owned public bathing facility became a reality in May 1921 when the Monmouth Beach Borough Council appropriated $6,800 to build...
Mihm Family: River Rulers
The Shrewsbury River has played an important role in the social and commercial development of Monmouth Beach. In the early years, it was a...
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...
The Trials of Dr. Carl Coppolino
While exploring my physician-father’s medical book collection at our home one day, I found an oddly titled one, The Practice of Hypnosis in Anesthesiology...
Monmouth Beach Politics: J & J Style
From the official start of Monmouth Beach for nearly half of that time a dynamic father-son combo ran things as activist mayors. Indeed, their...
Local Railroads: MB • LB • SB
For Gilded Age elites to make a remote seashore region (Sea Bright, Monmouth Beach and parts of Long Branch) into an exclusive summer resort,...
