Richard's Building Updates with a View
Many changes have taken place over the last few months here at the Richards Building. The most recent and charming of these updates are...
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THE RICHARDS BUILDING
1 West Blackwell St.
Dover, NJ 07801
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Melvin Appiah
Oct 162 min read
The Richards Basement Logo Contest
The Richards Basement is meant to be a place where artists of all backgrounds can come together to teach, share, learn, and make art,...
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Melvin Appiah
Sep 253 min read
A tale of three murals
Perhaps the coolest thing to come out of our participation in Dover Art Week 2024 was three great murals. These murals provide an...
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Chris Murphy
Sep 172 min read
What's going on at the Richards Building? Construction Update
As anyone driving south on Sussex Street may have noticed, there are some new holes in the big brick wall on the north side of the...
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Chris Murphy
Aug 293 min read
Testing out a new space for Dover's art scene
[Photo credits: Glad Marketing LLC, AutoHD Creative Studios, and Fresco Arts Team] Ever since we decided to seriously explore the option...
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Chris Murphy
Jun 191 min read
Looking for your ideas - Community Mural Project
As discussed in previous blog posts, we are seriously exploring how to create a community art space in the basement of the Richards...
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Chris Murphy
May 271 min read
Bunting for Memorial Day - restarting the tradition
We've always loved the old photos of the Richards Building festooned with bunting for Memorial Day parades, and this year we determined...
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Chris Murphy
Apr 242 min read
A makeover, and so much more...
Our plans for the Richards Building took a step forward recently when our proposed facade improvements, as seen in the rendering above,...
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Chris Murphy
Mar 201 min read
Lunch counter mysteries...
Where was the Newberry's lunch counter? And what did it look like? (And is it coming back??) To be clear, this picture shows a different...
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Chris Murphy
Feb 221 min read
Goodbye Awning! (And Goodbye Pigeons??)
It has been a quiet couple of months, but we have a variety of work planned for this spring. First up, next week(!) we will start...
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Chris Murphy
Oct 18, 20231 min read
Launching pad to US Supreme Court
Many thanks to friend of the building Rob B, who gave us the heads up that, in 1882, a young lawyer named Mahlon Pitney appears to have...
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Chris Murphy
Oct 13, 20231 min read
Surprise windows!
As noted earlier, one of our current projects is trying to uncover the original brick walls by removing plaster and other finishes that...
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Chris Murphy
Oct 11, 20231 min read
Trolley Car
This great old colorized postcard shows Blackwell Street with the trolley cars of the Morris County Traction Company prominently featured....
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Chris Murphy
Oct 9, 20231 min read
Elsewhere in Dover...
Not everything we find comes from 1 West Blackwell Street. We've also found: Matchbook from Crescent Grill on East Dickerson Street....
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Chris Murphy
Oct 6, 20231 min read
Tobacco! (And its side effects)
Our findings certainly support the idea that people used to smoke alot -- in multiple locations, we have uncovered different tobacco...
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Chris Murphy
Oct 4, 20231 min read
Before the Richards Building
We stumbled across this old picture in an old newsletter from the Dover Area Historical Society, where it was described as the oldest...
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Chris Murphy
Oct 2, 20231 min read
Column drama
When we started removing interior finishes in the retail space along Blackwell Street, there were three very attractive exposed columns,...
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Chris Murphy
Sep 29, 20231 min read
JJ Newberry's in the house
JJ Newberry's was located in the Richards Building for roughly 50 years, so it is not surprising to find a bunch of artifacts from the...
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Chris Murphy
Sep 27, 20231 min read
Dover, NJ - Steel town
This is such an interesting picture, because it is a reminder that even though iron and steel brought Dover great wealth, it couldn't...
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Chris Murphy
Sep 26, 20231 min read
More interesting finds
As we continue to clean out the ground floor retail spaces, we've come across a couple more interesting features. As we removed drywall...
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