Elizabeth was once the home of wealthy merchants, bankers, lawyers, industrialists and financiers. Their estates graced streets such as North Broad, East Jersey, Westfield Ave., Westminster Ave. and Salem Ave. This photo is of the North Broad St. residence of Frederick H. Levey. The distinctive chateau style home was designed about 1880 by noted architect Bruce Price. Levey was president of the Frederick H. Levey Company, which manufactured printing and lithographic inks for the major book and magazine publishers of his day. The company was established in 1893 and was headquartered in New York with the plant located in Brooklyn. Levey was a director of the Elizabethtown Water Co. and also served on the board of the Metropolitan Realty Co. The socially prominent family escaped the summer heat in Elizabeth by staying at their cottage near Newport, Rhode Island, undoubtedly enjoying the cool ocean breezes. But by the 1920s North Broad St. was becoming a commercial street and the Levey home was replaced with the Winfield Scott Hotel. Levey died at his summer home in 1927. Arnold Samuelsen said: The Frederick Harrington Levey home was at 323 North Broad (the Winfield Scott Hotel site), according to the 1900 census. He lives with his wife, Mary Chetwood Bispham Levey and a son and daughter. The family employs four servants: a butler, cook, seamstress and laundress. Next door at 333 North Broad, was the home of Benjamin Howell Campbell (1848-1925), at one time an alderman in Elizabeth and for 51 years (1869-1920) headmaster of Columbia Grammar School in New York. His wife Mary Purviance Shiras Campbell, who died in 1905 after surgery, was descended from the Boudinot, Barber and Ogden families of Elizabeth. She and Mr. Leveys wife seem to be related because their mothers names are Chetwood and both were born in Mount Holley, N.J. Mr. Campbell died April 8, 1925 at his residence, 411 Westminster Ave.
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