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• Photograph of Highwood - 1890

  Sepia toned photograph of Highwood, the elegant stone mansion built by James Gore King in 1832. After King's death in 1853, most of the family moved back to New York City. The mansion remained at it's location (approximately 21 King Avenue) until it burned in 1895. This image from 1890 is from Edward Kirk's Scrapbook.
• Highwood Bluff Mansion Photographs

  Three sepia toned photographs of Highwood Bluff or The Bluff, a mansion built by Archibald Gracie King, son of James Gore King in 1880-1881. Images are from the Edward Kirk Scrapbook. The first shows the mansion in 1910, the second in 1915 and the last in 1921, after it was destroyed by fire.
• Map of Highwood Bluffs 1909

  Map of Highwood Bluffs, the extension of High Bluff Terrace, printed in 1909. The area was purchased by S. E. Renner and Thomas Henry, developers of this area and also Sterling Avenue, on the other side of the Hudson Boulevard, now Boulevard East. Drawn over lots 27-30 is the outline of Highwood Bluff, or the Bluff, the home of Archibald Gracie King, son of James Gore King, who settled in Weehawken in 1832. Archibald died in 1897, but the home remained standing until the mid-1920s.
• Homes for 8,000 Now Occupy Sections of Weehawken Once Divided in 3 Estates

  Clipping from the Hudson Dispatch, January 13, 1931. This article describes the three estates that occupied the Highwood section of town - Brown, Bonn and King. It also has some interesting statistics and tells about the horse cars of yore. There is some misinformation here, but still worth reading.
• Painting of Highwood by Grant Wright

  Water color painting of Highwood, the estate of James Gore King, painted by Grant Wright and based on a 1957 charcoal drawing of Highwood by Thomas Ayres. Ayres did a series of drawings of the Highwood estate, which reside in the New York Historical Society archives.