The Mystery of the Mount Hope Tea House

29 Dec 2020

The Mystery of the Mount Hope Tea House

December 29, 2020
Richard Lovejoy
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1910s, 1920s, 1930s, Hastings History, Hudson Heights, Mount Hope Boulevard

by Richard Lovejoy Recently Michelle Bohuniek, a former Hastings resident, asked us for any information we might have about her former residence at 357 Mt. Hope Boulevard. Specifically, she was interested in what we knew about a tea room that she had heard operated in her house and served customers […]

09 Sep 2018

Immigration to and Emigration from Schwäbisch Hall

September 9, 2018
The Hastings Historical Society
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1900s, 1910s

One of Hastings’ early shopkeepers, Frederick Breyer, was included in a book recently published by the city archive of Schwäbisch Hall in Germany. The translated title of the book is “Immigration to and Emigration from Schwäbisch Hall: 1600-1914.” For those of you who speak German, we now have a copy […]

08 Jul 2010

A Fourth of July Parade – 1910s style

July 8, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1910s, Collection, Hastings History, Reminiscences

In 1941, long-time Hastings resident Stephen Zebrock wrote a column for the Hastings News called “Main Street Through the Years.” In this column, he set down everything he could remember about his childhood in Hastings in the late 1910s. This week, we thought you might like to read what Stephen […]

22 Apr 2010

House Tour Preview: Margaret Sanger’s Window

April 22, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1900s, 1910s, Collection

Margaret Sanger in a photograph she included in her book My Fight for Birth Control with the caption “Suburban Motherhood.”
In 1998, Margaret Sanger was included in Time Magazine’s 100 Most Important People of the Century for her relentless crusade for women’s rights, and especially for birth control (a […]

24 Dec 2009

Volumes of Good Wishes from the Historical Society

December 24, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1900s, 1910s, Collection

In 1982 Algernon Gordon Smith, known to his Hastings friends as Gordon, gave the Historical Society a small scrapbook of greeting cards, two of which you see here. Gordon was a third generation Hastings-ite, and he and his wife were charter members of the society when it was founded back […]

12 Nov 2009

In Honor of Veteran’s Day

November 12, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1910s, 1940s, 1960s, Collection

Parade on Main Street during or just after World War I, possibly on Armistice Day, November 11th, 1918 Parades matter. And Joseph Semberger reminds veterans why in the “Commander’s Message” from a booklet produced in 1969 for the 50th anniversary of the James Daley Post No. 200 of the V.F.W.:“Each […]

14 Sep 2009

Billie Burke and Burkeley Crest

September 14, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1910s, Collection

Mary William Ethelbert Appleton “Billie” Burke, best known as the good witch Glinda in the 1939 film version of “The Wizard of Oz,” began her film and stage career in 1907. She was 24 years old and already a star when she bought the Kirkham estate on Broadway in Hastings […]

31 Aug 2009

Cutting Edge Technology in Hastings: The Automobile

August 31, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1890s, 1900s, 1910s, Collection

The Society’s earliest photograph of a car, probably taken before 1907 (click on any photograph for more information) On Memorial Day of 1896, Hastings residents were thrilled by an event that had, until then, only been witnessed by residents of Paris, London, and Chicago – a horseless carriage race! The […]

07 May 2009

The Hastings Hospital

May 7, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1910s, Collection

by Judy (Wemer) Chamberlain Dr. Jenks hopital building in the 1960s. If you have taken a trip down Olinda Avenue lately, you may have noticed that something is missing on the south side of the street. For more years than I can remember, a small, old wood and stucco structure […]

30 Apr 2009

Unexpected Guest at Opening Reception

April 30, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1910s, Society Events

Welcome to our Opening Reception: From left to right: Trustees Evelyn Drewes and Eileen Forbes-Watkins and members Fred Olsson and Marvin & Nancy Weinberg. In the background are parts of Henry Draper’s telescope and the Riverview Manor Hose Company display.It was lovely to see so many old and new friends […]