Neighborhood changes

[BLeafe]

Looking at the 1876 Atlas page that shows my neighborhood (click to enlarge), I see that Anderson Park extended to Park St (that sounds appropriate) and the park's walkway had a racetrack configuration.

The western end of the park was later chopped off so the apartment building that became 5 Pangborn could be built. Ward St on the park's south side became Conklin Place and the segment of Park St north of Anderson St joined with the new roadway that was the new western border of the park to become Pangborn Place.

The First Baptist Church is there, but has since taken over 7 properties to control that entire block. Two properties (maybe three) became 430 Union St (circled), 2 or 3 properties became the (new) First Presbyterian Church (another had burned down elsewhere), 4 or 5 properties became the Second Reformed Church, and there was a conservatory of some sort where Holy Trinity School is.

Well, that's how it appears to me, anyway. If anyone has any further info/enlightenment to offer, I'm all ears...........well, eyes, in this case.

[just watching]

I don't think Holy Trinity was located there, at such early date.  I think the precursor was still on Trinity Place (later to become Knights of Columbus, and now a mosque).  There were very few Catholics in the northern end of Hackensack at that time. The neighborhood was virtually 100% white, and at least 95% White Protestant, mostly Dutch, English, Scottish, Northern Ireland, and German (and probably most of the people were some combination of those, not pure English, pure Dutch, etc.) The few Catholics were Irish and German, and they were mostly in central portions of Hackensack.

Also, the old First Presbyterian Church was located on Main Street next to the Johnson Library.  There's a 3-story apartment building with retail store and a coffee shop there now. It didn't burn down, you are confusing with another church, possibly the Asbury Methodist Church.  The congregation outgrew that space and built the new church around 1930, complete with steel I-beam construction.  It looks older, but it isn't.  I've seen the construction photos that the church has.

[BLeafe]

You're right about the First Presbyterian Church. It was the Second Reformed Church whose previous building burned down.

Holy Trinity School didn't exist in 1876. What I said was that some conservatory was located back then on the spot where the old school building is today. Actually, the "old school building" is still the new HTS to me because I switched to that new building in 5th grade when it opened in 1957 after spending 4 years at the real "old building" where the church's parking lot is today.

Holy Trinity Church IS on this atlas page at its current location, but it's not the building you see today, which was built in 1932.

[just watching]

And I am told that Christ Episcopal was gutted as well, but they restored the same structure.  There's a history of big church fires in Hackensack.  At least 3 that I know of.