Elberon, the high-profile Gilded Age resort you?ve never heard of
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At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most high-profile summer destinations for wealthy New Yorkers?one which has a lasting fame today?was Newport, on the coast of Rhode Island. But just a generation before, in the 1870s, there was another location central to conversations about where to go when temperatures rose: Elberon, New Jersey.
The community, set along the state?s northern coast and a part of Long Branch, New Jersey, was established by real estate developer L.B. Brown, who called it Elberon as a play on his own name. While Newport was popular with older, established American families, Elberon initially attracted upstart businessmen with new wealth. ?It was very much the nouveau riche alternative to Newport,? says Francis Morrone, architectural historian and instructor at the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art.
Courtesy of the Durnell Collection at Long Branch Public Library.
Ocean Avenue in Elberon.
Courtesy of the Durnell Collection at Long Branch Public Library.
A view of Ocean Avenue.
These businessmen, among them Moses Taylor, a banker who rose to be one of the wealthiest men of the 19th century, still had to work during the week and needed a convenient weekend get...
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