Jay Te Winburn, Photographer (1889-1965)

A mural in a bank in Montclair, New Jersey caught my eye. It depicts a parade on Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair.

From a storefront hung a sign for Jay Te Winburn, Portrait Photographer.

Fourteen years ago I researched this person. I inherited a photo taken by him.

Imprint of photographer Jay Te Winburn

I do not know the subject of the portrait. She appears to be a young woman with short, waved hair, wearing pearls. Perhaps the time period was the 1920s.

Current view of area depicted in mural

Based on addresses used by National Grocery Company and Winburn's studio, I would place this view from Bloomfield Avenue looking west at Maple Place.

Since writing the original article, the burial place of Jay Te Winburn was entered on Find A Grave. He died in 1965 and was buried in Flushing Cemetery in Queens, New York.

Old Dutch Farmhouse: Jacobus House of Cedar Grove

I toured the oldest house in my hometown of Cedar Grove, New Jersey.  The Jacobus House was built in the 1700s by Roeloff Jacobus.  The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  You will come across the surname Jacobus if you study local Cedar Grove history or people who lived in this area.  (You can see older pictures of the house here.)

The house was recently renovated and is for sale!  If you've been wanting to live in a house like your Dutch ancestors who settled in New Jersey and New York, this is your opportunity.

Jody at the Jacobus House
178 Grove Avenue, Cedar Grove, New Jersey

A living room, kitchen, and full bathroom comprise the first floor.  Notice the beams.  Remember my trip to Amsterdam and the pictures of the beams?  The Dutch built these homes to last.

Fireplace in the living room.
Electricity, heat, and air conditioning have been integrated over the years.

Hearth in the kitchen.

Modern area of the kitchen for the days you feel like cooking on the stove and not the hearth.

300 years of difference in the kitchen

Upstairs you will find three bedrooms and another full bath.

The basement walls:  21 inch thick sandstone blocks.