Erie-Lackawanna Terminal, 1907 Kenneth Murchison, architect, Lincoln Bush, engineer, Beaux Arts Erie-Lackawanna Terminal is probably Hoboken’s most visible landmark. One of the greatest terminals ever built, it was designed with the panache and theatrical grandeur of the Beaux-Arts architectural style. Constructed in the days when a train station was meant to be a grand entrance…
Category: Hoboken
Sinatra, Napoleon III, and other Hoboken residents
For such a small town, it is quite remarkable how many world-renown personalities were born or lived here. Meet some of the people whose life paths led through a small town on the Hudson called Hoboken. Frank Sinatra (1915 – 1998) Hoboken’s most famous son was born and grew up here. The house at 415…
Hoboken: a tiny town with a huge history
Overlooked by tourists and snubbed by New Yorkers as the place located on the other side of the Hudson, Hoboken boasts quite a remarkable history that goes well beyond being the birthplace of Sinatra and home to the best freshly-made mozzarella this side of the Atlantic. 17th century to the American Revolution Located on the…
Frank Sinatra: from Hoboken to Eternity
1915 Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915, at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, NJ. He was the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa and Antonino Martino “Marty” Sinatra. Sinatra weighed 13.5 pounds at the time of his birth and had to be delivered with the aid of forceps, which severely scarred his left cheek, neck, and ear…
City Beautiful Blog 