Schoolmen's Club Plaques

William R. Smith:

To inspire the future with a record of the accomplishment of the past, the Schoolmen's Club assisted by the pupils of the Newark Public Schools has, since 1911, celebrated "Newark Day" each year by placing in certain prominent or hallowed locations tablets of enduring bronze commemorating significant events and outstanding personages in the rich history of our city, the "town on the Pesayack" founded in 1666. As a further contribution to our aim that the children of Newark like the Athenian youth shall leave our city not only not less but greater and better than it was transmitted to them, we have prepared this book of reference to the historical data commemorated by the tablets. We trust it will encourage further knowledge and love of Newark.

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John Catlin (1911)
National Newark &
Essex Bank Building		 Robert Treat (1912)
Kinney Building		 First Meeting House (1913)
Branford Place near Broad Street		 Revolutionary War (1914)
Prudential Building, facing Broad Street
       
       
Moses Combs (1915)
Kirch Building
77 Market Street		 Lincoln (1916)
Lackawanna Freight Yards, facing Broad Street		 Newark's Soldiers (1917)
City Hall Steps		 Liberty Pole (1918)
Southern end of Military Park
       
       
Women in War (1919)
City Hall Steps		 First High School (1920)
Barringer High School Auditorium		 Stephen Crane (1921)
Public Library, Main Building		 Old Stone School House (1924)
Newark Museum Garden
       
       
Seth Boyden (1926)
Washington Park		 William Burnet (1926)
Salaam Temple, Mosque Theatre Building		 Jasper Crane (1927)
St. Paul's Church, High & Market Streets		 Founders of Newark (1928)
First Presbyterian Church, Broad Street
       
       
John Cotton Dana (1930)
Rotunda, Main Building of the Public Library		 Washington's Retreat Across NJ (1932)
Washington Park		 Samuel A. Ward (1934)
Grace Church, Broad & Walnut Streets		 Frank J. Urquhart (1935)
Sunday Call Building, Halsey Street
       
       
Development of Public Education (1936)
Board of Ed Building, Green Street		 Joseph E. Haynes (1937)
Morton Street School		 Dr. Edward Weston (1938)
Newark College of Engineering		 150th Anniversary of the Ratification of the Constitution (1939)
Court House
       
       
Dr. Addison B. Poland (1940)
Central Commercial & Technical High School		 Marcus L. Ward (1941)
Museum Garden Wall