No. 94 February 2012
The authoritative source on
early churches in New Jersey

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We've created a database and photographic inventory on more than half the 18th & 19th century churches in the state and add to it each month. We welcome and solicit all contributions and suggestions from our visitors.

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List of churches, by county
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Vintage photographs

Although the website was created to make available contemporary photographs, there are too many interesting churches that have disappeared—except on old albumen prints or in engravings made for pre-1900 books and magazines. We solicit such images from our readers and will reproduce at least one every month, along with such historical information as we can find about these vanished churches.
     If you would like to see an image in your possession on this site, we are pleased to receive your own scans, or you may send us the photograph and we will create a high resolution scan and return the image to you with a copy of the scan and our thanks!

Church of the Holy Innocents
Beach Haven, Ocean County

The above image is from a 1916 postcard. The church was organized in the 1880s, I believe, and this good-sized chapel was erected in 1881. The style is Stick, but the architect is unknown to me. It now serves as the Visitors Center and home of the Historical Society.
    

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