During his tenure, the newspaper gave witness to the rise of Jersey City's most controversial political democratic Party "boss" Mayor Frank Hague. Dear renamed the newspaper the Jersey Journal. Active in city politics, Pangborn served as the chairman of the 1870 city charter commission. They supported the party's overall Reconstruction program and its civil rights program of equal rights for African-Americans but took an independent editorial stand against the arrival of Irish Catholics into the city. Pangborn, were both former Union Army officers and Republicans. Its founders, William Dunning and Zebina K. It w as a four-page broadsheet with six columns a page. It has supported and advocated the election of the national and state candidates of that party," wrote associate editor Alexander McLean in 1895" (Quoted in Weiss, 1992). Robert Larkins, an editorial page editor, once called the Jersey Journal, "a paper with an independent political outlook with Democratic leaning." However, when the paper started as the Evening Journal, he describes the paper as "the pronounced and vigorous advocate of Republican principles and general policy of the Republican Party. The structure was demolished to create the large open plaza that forms the core of Journal Square. Soon thereafter, in 1911, the paper relocated almost two miles west to a new office at the northeast corner of Bergen and Sip Avenues. In 1909, after almost forty years, the Evening Journal officially changed its name to The Jersey Journal under the parent company known as the Evening Journal Association. The new offices at 37 Montgomery Street remained home to the editorial offices and production facilities through the first decade of the twentieth century. As the newspaper flourished, the publishers, the Evening Journal Association, constructed a new office building in 1874. In 1868, Joseph Albert Dear bought the newspaper. Originally published as the Evening Journal on May 2, 1867, the newspaper started in a two-room office at 13 Exchange Place and gradually expanded its operations into other nearby buildings. Rowland, Jr., a native of Jersey City and prolific architect, designed the building in 1921 during the renovation of the area for new bridges over the Pennsylvania Railroad cut and the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad (now PATH) station at Summit Avenue.īefore moving in 1925 to its namesake building, the newspaper offices relocated several times. The property was purchased by Kushner Companies and KABR Group in 2012 as part of the revitalization of Journal Square. The historic Jersey City building will be preserved and renovated for commercial and retail space, and the iconic sign will remain as a reminder of both the publication and the city's business hub. In 2014, the newspaper moved out of the city to One Harmon Plaza in Secaucus, its fifth location. Facing north across the open plaza of Journal Square, the building enjoys a prominent location in the commercial hub. The bright red signage atop the five-story building at 30 "Journal" Square identifies its earlier headquarters, a mainstay of Jersey City's political and cultural life. Like Times Square in New York City for the New York Times, Journal Square takes its name from the Jersey Journal, Jersey City's longtime daily newspaper.
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