Durand-Hedden is delighted to be hosting Columbia High School's Accomplishing Artists for an exhibit of their work.

The celebration honoring Juneteenth co-hosted by the Durand-Hedden House and the SOMA Community Coalition on Race on the grounds of the ...

Honoring Black history is important to the Durand-Hedden House, and over the years we have had many programs on important African...

The Essex County Hand Spinners Guild visited Durand-Hedden House to demonstrate the magical art of spinning fibers into yarn on hand...

The Golf Island neighborhood of Maplewood, bordered by the Maplewood Country Club golf course, the Morris and Essex rail line, and the...

Clothing provides a window into the past, and clothing historian Pat Sanftner provided a demonstration that revealed the high style...

As an industrial state, NJ is no stranger to industrial toxins. In recent decades, we have been home to over 140 Superfund cleanup sites...

Over the centuries many families in our community have chosen Rosedale Cemetery as their final place of rest. It consists of 92...

Tea rooms were enormously popular in the first half of the 20th century and are a fascinating aspect of women’s history. Most were owned...

Are you one of our community’s many “house-proud” residents curious about their home’s past? In February 2018, nationally known land...

During his multi-faceted six-decade-long career, renowned Hudson River School founder Asher B. Durand truly lived a life in art - as an...

As the City of Newark prepared to celebrate its 350th anniversary in 2016, Elizabeth Del Tufo, President of the Newark Preservation and ...

The familiar park with the awesome views to the east on the mountain above Maplewood and nearby towns has far more interesting origins...

Until 1894 there were no female sport stars, no product endorsement deals, and no young mothers with the chutzpah to circle the globe on...

The bottles, bars and boxes of soft and hard soaps and detergents that line supermarket and drugstore shelves today give little hint of...

Long before the police station and fire department were located beside Memorial Park following Maplewood's incorporation, the area had...