Polton is the Author of..
Paterson’s Industrial Age (2023) During the Nineteenth Century, Paterson, New Jersey grew into a manufacturing and commercial powerhouse. Paterson was “An arm of iron in a sleeve of silk”. The city’s architecture displays confidence in the future and formed a distinctive urban environment. Although its prominence as a manufacturing center did not endure, the city’s products and people impacted the nation.
The photographs in this book are from the archives of the Paterson Museum and highlight the city during its period of greatest growth.
To see some if the images in the book, see the link below for a recent lecture at the Paterson Museum on “Paterson Comes of Age”.
Valuation and Market Studies for Affordable Housing. by Richard E. Polton (Author), with Julia LaVigne (Author), Appraisal Institute, Chicago, Illinois, 2004. This is the standard book on valuation and market studies published by the Appraisal Institute.
The Life and Times of Fred Wesley Wentworth: The Architect Who Shaped Paterson and Its People by Richard E. Polton, 2012. Pine Hill Press, Distributed by Rutgers University Press. In 1888, a young Dartmouth College alumnus from a distinguished New Hampshire family arrived in Paterson, New Jersey, to pursue his career as an architect. He found a dynamic and fast-growing city where fortunes were being made in silk, commerce, and heavy industry. His practice took root and was soon designing homes, commercial buildings and institutions for the area’s leading citizens. His buildings are thoughtful, well-designed, and typify the architecture of their time. Wentworth designed buildings that shaped generations of immigrants and their children — the author among them. See: htpp:/www.fredwesleywentworth.com
The 1964 Paterson Riot: Three Days That Changed a City, George Lipsitz with Richard Polton, 2014, North Jersey Media Group, The book explores the three days in August, 1964 when the inner city neighborhood of Paterson was torn by riots. The book reflects on the conditions, history and racial legacy found in America’s first planned industrial city.
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