I ventured back into Newark last week, confident I wouldn’t encounter the shape-shifting roads of my first trip. My goal this trip was to research a number of Betelle-related items at the Essex County Hall of Records. Going there served a dual purpose; not only does the Hall house the deeds and mortgages to all [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Diary'
A Drive Through Newark
August 31st, 2006 · 10 Comments · Architecture, Diary
Luck Be a Lady Betelle
August 27th, 2006 · No Comments · Diary
As satisfying as it is to find an elusive publication, photograph or news item I had been looking for, even more thrilling is finding material I wasn’t looking for. I had a lot of this recently. Last week I came into posession a stack of letter between Betelle and Pierre S. duPont regarding the schools [...]
Tags:Biographical·Diary·Marie
A Newark State of Mind
August 6th, 2006 · No Comments · Diary
Driving to Newark isn’t for the faint of heart. Exiting Route 280 into the bowels of the city is like being swallowed by a mobius strip; once you’re inside, there’s no escape. And yet there I was, this past Saturday morning, navigating the one-way (No left turn! No right turn!) streets in a vain attempt [...]
Tags:Newark
Bald, Smiling School Builder Betelle
July 28th, 2006 · No Comments · Diary, Miscellaneous
Today I ventured over to the Boston Public Library (I’m up in Massachussets this week on vacation), to try and get some odds-and-ends info on Betelle. Having gotten hold of the text of his Time Magazine article a few weeks ago, I wondered if there might have been a photograph to accompany it. After marveling [...]
Tags:magazine
The Widow Betelle
July 27th, 2006 · No Comments · Biographical, Diary
John emailed me a few days ago with new information he dug up; Marie Betelle’s obituary from the New York Times: August 30, 1959 Mrs. Marie Ann Louise Betelle, widow of James O. Betelle, an architect, died of a brain hemorrhage early yesterday at University Hospital. She was 52 years old. Mrs. Betelle lived at [...]