Research Resources

Hoboken Resources

2019 Intensive Level Architectural Survey of Intensive-Level of the Hoboken Historic District (Vols. 1-6)

1979 New Jersey Office of Historic Preservation Historic Sites Inventory

1st Street | 2nd Street | 3rd Street | 4th Street | 5th Street | 6th Street | 7th Street | 8th Street | 9th Street | 10th Street | 11th Street | 12th Street | 13th Street | 14th Street | 15th Street | Adams Street | Bloomfield Street | Clinton Street | Garden Street | Grand Street | Hudson Place | Hudson Street | Jackson Street | Jefferson Street | Madison Street | Monroe Street | Newark Street | Observer Highway | Park Avenue | Paterson Avenue | River Street | Washington Street | Willow Avenue | Willow Terrace

City Directories

Precursors to telephone books, city directories are listings of residents, streets, businesses, organizations or institutions, giving their location in a city. The publishers had names like Gavit, Gopsill, Boyd, and Churchill. We have collected a number of these directories in PDF form that include Hoboken information, and include them here:

1854‑1855 Gavit | 1859‑1860 Gopsill | 1861‑1862 Gopsill | 1862‑1863 Gopsill | 1863‑1864 Gopsill | 1864‑1865 Gopsill | 1865‑1866 Gopsill | 1866‑1867 Gopsill | 1867‑1868 Gopsill | 1868‑1869 Gopsill | 1869‑1870 Gopsill | 1870‑1871 Gopsill | 1871‑1872 Gopsill | 1872‑1873 Gopsill | 1873‑1874 Gopsill | 1874‑1875 Gopsill | 1875‑1876 Gopsill | 1876‑1877 Gopsill | 1877‑1878 Gopsill | 1878‑1879 Gopsill | 1879‑1880 Gopsill | 1880‑1881 Gopsill | 1881‑1882 Gopsill | 1882‑1883 Gopsill | 1883‑1884 Gopsill | 1886‑1887 Gopsill | 1887‑1888 Gopsill | 1889‑1890 Gopsill | 1895‑1896 Boyd | 1896‑1897 Churchill | 1897‑1898 Boyd | 1905‑1906 Boyd | 1918 Polk | 1922-1923 Polk | 1925-1926 Polk

Library of Congress

Try surfing the Library of Congress on-line. One of the Museum’s favorite Library of Congress collections is the unforgettable Hoboken Piers Headhouse Collection of 72 South waterfront pictures, drawings and illustrations (in reverse chronological order, it appears). Additional noteworthy Library of Congress resources can be accessed by clicking on one of the three hyperlinks bulleted below.

LOC (Detroit Publishing Co. Collection of Prints & Photos) – Hoboken

LOC (Historic American Buildings Survey) – Hoboken

LOC (Photos) – Hoboken

Other Research Resources

Newark Public Library – New Jersey Information Center

Newark Public Library

New Jersey State Library – How Do I?

New York Public Library

NYPL Digital Collections