As discussed in previous blog posts, we are seriously exploring how to create a community art space in the basement of the Richards...

We've always loved the old photos of the Richards Building festooned with bunting for Memorial Day parades, and this year we determined...

Our plans for the Richards Building took a step forward recently when our proposed facade improvements, as seen in the rendering above,...

Where was the Newberry's lunch counter? And what did it look like? (And is it coming back??) To be clear, this picture shows a different...

It has been a quiet couple of months, but we have a variety of work planned for this spring. First up, next week(!) we will start...

Many thanks to friend of the building Rob B, who gave us the heads up that, in 1882, a young lawyer named Mahlon Pitney appears to have...

As noted earlier, one of our current projects is trying to uncover the original brick walls by removing plaster and other finishes that...

This great old colorized postcard shows Blackwell Street with the trolley cars of the Morris County Traction Company prominently featured....

Not everything we find comes from 1 West Blackwell Street. We've also found: Matchbook from Crescent Grill on East Dickerson Street....

Our findings certainly support the idea that people used to smoke alot -- in multiple locations, we have uncovered different tobacco...

We stumbled across this old picture in an old newsletter from the Dover Area Historical Society, where it was described as the oldest...

When we started removing interior finishes in the retail space along Blackwell Street, there were three very attractive exposed columns,...

JJ Newberry's was located in the Richards Building for roughly 50 years, so it is not surprising to find a bunch of artifacts from the...

This is such an interesting picture, because it is a reminder that even though iron and steel brought Dover great wealth, it couldn't...

As we continue to clean out the ground floor retail spaces, we've come across a couple more interesting features. As we removed drywall...

As we took down the ceiling in our ground floor retail space, we found a reminder of who built the building... written on a 100 year old...

In the process of uncovering over a century of finishes and accumulated junk, we are generating a lot of waste. As a result, we are...

As you can imagine, when a building is over 100 years old, there are many layers of finishes added over the years that cover up the...

We certainly appreciate that this building, with its central location in Dover’s downtown and its rich history, holds a special place in...