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The Free Public Library, Upper Montclair Branch is located at 185 Bellevue Avenue in the Upper Montclair section of Montclair in Essex County, United States. The building was built in 1914 and still serves as a Bellevue Branch of the
Montclair Public Library The Montclair Public Library is the public library for the township of Montclair located in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It serves the residents from two buildings, the Main Library and the Bellevue Avenue Branch. It is a member o ...
. It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
on July 1, 1988, for its significance in architecture. With It was listed in the Public Buildings section of the Historic Resources of Montclair
Multiple Property Submission The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of sites, buildings, structures, districts, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
(MPS). The brick building was designed by architect
Francis A. Nelson Francis Augustus Nelson (1878–1950) was an American architect from Montclair, New Jersey. Early life and education Francis A. Nelson was born on February 2, 1878, at Honolulu, Hawaii, the son of Dr. Henry Clay Nelson, a US Navy surgeon. In 1893 ...
and has 20th-century institutional style with
Classical Revival Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassic ...
features.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, New Jersey List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, New Jersey This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Essex County, New Jersey. Latitude ...
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List of Carnegie libraries in New Jersey The following list of Carnegie libraries in New Jersey provides information on United States Carnegie libraries in New Jersey, where 36 libraries were built from grants totaling $1,066,553 awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1900 ...
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East Orange Public Library The East Orange Public Library is the free public library of East Orange East Orange is a City (New Jersey), city in Essex County, New Jersey, Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's popul ...


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