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     Joe R. Citizen Username: Ragnatela Post Number: 330 Registered: 6-2004 |
Does anyone have any old photos or maps depicting Baker Street between Ridgewood and the Village pre-1910? Where can I see such a thing? | ||
| Bob K Supporter Username: Bobk Post Number: 11018 Registered: 5-2001 |
Check out the postcard collections that you can access from the main page of MOL. Near the top of the page there is a heading "Images Around Town". There is at least one Baker Street picture there. | ||
| ken (the other one) Citizen Username: Ken Post Number: 387 Registered: 5-2001  |
I have some I can post...once I find them. Ken | ||
| Joe R. Citizen Username: Ragnatela Post Number: 335 Registered: 6-2004 |
I had see the postcards, but I'm more interested in what there was where the houses now are between Everett and Ridgewood on the north side of Baker. The owner of the house on the corner of Ridgewood and Baker told me his place was a roadside inn in the late 1700's. I'm guessing that the rest of the block may have been land and accessory buildings associated with the inn. My house was built in 1910 and I think the others between mine and his are considerably newer (1930's-1950). | ||
| Dogbert Citizen Username: Dogbert Post Number: 41 Registered: 1-2006  |
I have a couple of old maps, from 1873 and 1890, the type that shows names of owners. The names are mostly (surprise!) Baker. It looks like there is no Everett on the maps. In 1873 most of the block is noted as "T.H. Baker Est." with a smaller unnamed lot at the northeast corner of Ridgewood as you noted. In 1890 the names are (going west to east) E Baker, J.E. Baker, Mrs. Fogle, T.C. Baker, H. J. Baker, and C. Crowell. | ||
| Bob K Supporter Username: Bobk Post Number: 11030 Registered: 5-2001 |
The house on the NE corner of Ridgewood (in colonial time the street was called Grub street) and Baker was, politely, an inn. In most of the stuff I have read it is more often called a tavern. It also was a school house at one time or another. Us architecure freaks talked about Everrit Place here a couple of years ago. The houses are four squares (square in shape with four rooms on the first floor)or slight variations. This would date them to the turn of the 20th centuryor just after. Most of the houses on the north side of Baker between Ridgewood and Everrit look to be @1925 or a little later. | ||
| Joe R. Citizen Username: Ragnatela Post Number: 337 Registered: 6-2004 |
North side of Baker Street is a mixed bag between Everitt and Ridgewood. You have the "tavern"; a masonry structure owned by a guy in Short Hills who rents furnished rooms in three units (vintage..who knows); a 1950's residence; a small house built in the 30's; mine reputedly built in 1910-12 and a couple of others I don't know much about. When we moved in, the seller gave us a letter written to him by a woman born in 1924 who grew up in the house, with photos. I'll post them when I get a chance. The woman, from memory, sketched out the yard, labelling all the varieties of trees, and each of the rooms with furniture arrangement (two of the bedrooms apparently had sinks in the corners. Her grandfather was a builder who apparently built my house on Baker and a few others on Ridgewood Terr. and neighborhood. Her reminiscences of childhood in Depression Era Maplewood are hardly depressing. When I get a chance over the weekend, I'll share more details. | ||
| frannyfree Citizen Username: Frannyfree Post Number: 186 Registered: 1-2004 |
I am Joe's next door neighbor on Baker St. My house was built in 1886, as we have looked up the records. Joe, There is a picture of the neighborhood in a frame at the Durand Hedden House. It is very interesting. Where the parking lot is now, next to the Dry Cleaners on Baker, there used to be a livery stable that would loan out carriages. We were told that the woman that lived in our house in the 1920's only recently passed away. | ||
| Joe R. Citizen Username: Ragnatela Post Number: 389 Registered: 6-2004 |
Hi Fran! I'll check that out. I was really more interested in what our section of the street (Everett to Ridgewood)looked like at the turn of the century. From what you're saying, I'm guessing there were no homes between yours and David's? |
