Howell Works
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Howell Works was a bog iron-based production facility for pig iron which was established in New Jersey in the early 19th century by American engineer and philanthropist James P. Allaire. It is notable
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Panoramic view of Howell Works, 1853, showing coal depot and furnace at top, store and other buildings center, and residential buildings at bottom.
Entrance to the "deserted village" of Howell Works Company, c. 1905
Arthur Brisbane
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Arthur Brisbane was one of the best-known American newspaper editors of the 20th century, as well as a real estate investor.
Howell Works
…dubbed the location "Deserted Village". After Hal Allaire's death in 1901, the property was purchased by W. J. Harrison. Harrison sold it in 1907 to Arthur Brisbane, then the world's wealthiest journalist, for the sum of $68,000. Brisbane leased the Deserted Village to the Monmouth Council of Boy Scouts for twenty…
Brisbane, c. 1906
From left: William Randolph Hearst, Robert G. Vignola and Brisbane in New York during the filming of Vignola's The World and His Wife (1920)
Arthur Brisbane monument in Central Park, New York City