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He wrote much of his Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant at the cottage. While staying in Long Branch, Grant worshiped at the Church of the Presidents on Ocean Avenue. [2] In 1941, the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Peace purchased the adjacent property and turned the entire seven acres into the Stella Maris Retreat Center.
Long Branch was formed on April 11, 1867, as the Long Branch Commission, from portions of Ocean Township. Long Branch was incorporated as a city by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 8, 1903, based on the results of a referendum, replacing the Long Branch Commission.
Seven Presidents Park is an oceanfront park in the city of Long Branch, New Jersey, USA, maintained by the Monmouth County Park System. It is named after U.S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, and Woodrow Wilson, all of whom spent time in the area's resorts. [1] President Grant declared Long Branch the ...
A conceptual design of the future Long Branch pier. The city is using a $3.5 million grant from New Jersey's Boardwalk Preservation Fund to build a new pier at the beach.
A plan to develop the vacant lots across Long Branch's City Hall with a mixed-use apartment building is another step closer.
A developer wants to build a dozen three-story townhomes on the parking lot of Holy Trinity Church of Christ the King parish in Long Branch.
For approximately 75 years it was a seasonal summer resort church, located at 1260 Ocean Avenue in Long Branch, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, just across the street from the Atlantic Ocean. In 1953 the Episcopal Diocese deconsecrated the church and slated it for demolition. Local preservationists stepped in and in 1955 the old ...
Shadow Lawn is a historic building on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1927 for Hubert T. Parson, president of the F.W. Woolworth Company, it is one of the last large estate houses to be built before the Great Depression. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in ...