Crane House and Historic YWCA

Residents can still get a virtual tour of the house and some winter decorating ideas using items found in the backyard and supermarket by viewing the house tour. 

Young African Americans gather at the Y, now the home of the Montclair History Center, in an undated photograph from the archives of the Library.

Elizabeth Ann Lasley, a native Montclairite now living in Minneapolis, visits The Nubian Quilters: Harlem Renaissance” at The Crane House.

By Jaimie Julia Winters winters@montclairlocal.news Montclair’s Young Men’s Christian Association and Young Women’s Christian Association were both founded by leaders in the African American community to foster character, physical health and intellect. In the early 190...

By Jaimie Julia Winters winters@montclairlocal.news In the early 1900s, about 50 YWCAs existed for African American women and girls, all of them offshoots of white chapters except one — the YWCA of Montclair-North Essex in Montclair, founded by Alice Hooe Foster, the first African American alumna of Montclair High School. ...

At the Crane House and Historic YWCA, on Monday, Feb. 19, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., children can discover how our past presidents (and their wives and children) lived through crafts and other activities at this drop-off program. The address is 110 Orange Road, Montclair ...