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Van Vorst Park

Populated place in Hudson County, New Jersey, US

Field	Value
name	Van Vorst Park Historic District
(Boundary Increase)
nrhp_type	hd
image	Van Vorst Park Jersey City November 2021.jpg
location	Roughly bounded by Mercer, Wayne, Montgomery, Grove, Bright, Varick and Monmouth Streets, Jersey City, New Jersey
coordinates
locmapin	USA New Jersey Hudson County#New Jersey#USA
nocat	yes
architecture	Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals
added	October 11, 1984
area	7.7 acre
refnum	84000084
designated_other1_name	New Jersey Register of Historic Places
designated_other1_abbr	NJRHP
designated_other1_link	New Jersey Register of Historic Places
designated_other1_date	August 2, 1978
designated_other1_number	1540
designated_other1_num_position	bottom
designated_other1_color	#ffc94b

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Van Vorst Park is a neighborhood in the Historic Downtown of Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, centered on a park sharing the same name. The neighborhood is located west of Paulus Hook and Marin Boulevard, north of Grand Street, east of the Turnpike Extension, and south of The Village and Christopher Columbus Drive. Much of it is included in the Van Vorst Park Historical District.

The park was a centerpiece of Van Vorst Township, a township that existed in Hudson County from 1841 to 1851. Van Vorst was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 12, 1841, from portions of Bergen Township. On March 18, 1851, Van Vorst Township was annexed by Jersey City.

The name Van Vorst comes from a prominent family in the area, the first of which arrived in the 1630s as superintendent of the patroonship Pavonia, the earliest European settlement on the west bank of the Hudson River in the province of New Netherland. His homestead at Harsimus, plus others at Communipaw, Paulus Hook, Minakwa, Pamrapo were later incorporated into Bergen. His namesake and eighth generation descendant, Cornelius Van Vorst, was the twelfth Mayor of Jersey City serving from 1860 to 1862.

Like Harsimus Cove and Hamilton Park to the north and Bergen-Lafayette to the southwest, the neighborhood contains nineteenth century rowhouses and brownstones. It is home to the Jersey City Free Public Library, James J. Ferris High School (named for the Jersey City citizen who laid the foundation of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse with his firm Stillman, Delehanty and Ferris), and Old Colony Shopping Plaza. Landmarks include Barrow Mansion and Dixon Mills.

The Grove Street PATH station is located nearby to the north and is the Jersey Avenue (HBLR station) to the south.

Park

Van Vorst Park is a two-acre city park bounded by Barrow Street on the east, Montgomery Street on the north, Jersey Avenue on the west and York Street on the south. The park was renovated in 1999 at a cost of two million dollars with money raised by the Friends of Van Vorst Park.

Images

File:Van Vorst Park-JC Main Library.jpg|View northeast to JC Main Library File:Van Vorst Park-Oppenheimer Mansion.jpg|Heppenheimer Mansion at Montgomery and Jersey File:Madison on the Van Vorst Park.jpg|Madison on the Van Vorst Park at York and Barrow File:Water Fountain Van Vorst Park Jersey City.JPG|Water fountain in Van Vorst Park File:Crafts fair Van Vorst Park.JPG|Vendors at Crafts Fair at Van Vorst Park File:Jersey City Library Main.jpg|Jersey City Main Library

References

{{NRISref. 2009a
(July 7, 2009). "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Hudson County". [[New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection]] - Historic Preservation Office.
*[http://www.cityofjerseycity.org/docs/vanvorst.shtml Van Vorst Park Historical District]
Snyder, John P. [https://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin67.pdf ''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968''], Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 148. Accessed June 26, 2013.
"Library Guides: Van Vorst Park: Van Vorst Park".
"Library Guides: Van Vorst Homestead Site: Van Vorst Homestead Site".
[http://www.newyorkssixth.com/directory/labels/Neighborhood%20Profile.html Hamilton Park Neighborhood and Historic District]
"JERSEY CITY POWERHOUSE TO UNDERGO FIRST PHASE OF LONG-AWAITED RESTORATION".
[http://www.jclandmarks.org/nomination-embankment.shtml The Pennsylvania Railroad Harsimus Branch Embankment, Jersey City, NJ] {{Webarchive. link. (2009-05-23)
"Jersey City, Past and Present".

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