The Life and Times of Fred Wesley Wentworth - Polton, Richard E
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Fred Wesley Wentworth and the Wentworth era span from the 1890s to the 1940s. Starting out as a local architect designing homes, commercial buildings and institutions for leading citizens in Paterson, New Jersey, his career quickly transformed by way of a Jewish entrepreneur, Jacob Fabian, into the archetect of grand movie palaces throughout New Jersey and the movie palace prototype nationwide. In addition, he was well know of his designs of institituions of Jewish life. These buildings shaped generations of immigrants and their chidlren and created a place that offered a sophisticated urban life.…mehr

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Fred Wesley Wentworth and the Wentworth era span from the 1890s to the 1940s. Starting out as a local architect designing homes, commercial buildings and institutions for leading citizens in Paterson, New Jersey, his career quickly transformed by way of a Jewish entrepreneur, Jacob Fabian, into the archetect of grand movie palaces throughout New Jersey and the movie palace prototype nationwide. In addition, he was well know of his designs of institituions of Jewish life. These buildings shaped generations of immigrants and their chidlren and created a place that offered a sophisticated urban life.
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Richard Polton grew up in Paterson, New Jersey. He was born in the Barnert Hospital and attended the Paterson public schools. Polton studied American History at Columbia University, where he wrote about the Paterson Pageant of 1913 as a senior paper. He studied architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design and city planning at MIT. Polton is a founding principal of Value Research Group, a real estate valuation and consulting firm in New Jersey and he specializes in issues of affordable housing and urban redevelopment. www.fredwesleywentworth.com