Save the Powerhouse Walking Tours
Join the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy (JCLC) from November-December 2025 + January-April 2026 for the Save the Powerhouse Walking Tours, a series of curated explorations of the revived residential and commercial Powerhouse neighborhood. $15 for adults; $10 for seniors/veterans/students.
Join architectural historian and Jersey City preservationist John Gomez for a series of specially curated 2-hour Save the Powerhouse Walking Tours and experience the area’s rich industrial landscape and atmospheric architectural fabric. Stops on the tours include:
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company complex of adaptively-reused warehouses, now home to residences, art studios, galleries, cafes, and other retail businesses and commercial occupants
The 19th-century cobblestone and railroad track remnants of Provost Street, one of only five remaining old world stone-paved streets in Jersey City
The “Gallery of Ancient Tenements” on Steuben Street, a mid-19th-century row of tenement buildings — some revived, others abandoned, and one famously leaning — with each edifice holding the faces, voices, and stories of the immigrant families that once occupied their rooms and storefronts
Morgan Street’s Butler Brothers Building — now the exclusive Modera Lofts residences with ground-floor retail and art galleries — a 1904-1905 warehouse colossus designed by Chicago-based architect Jarvis Hunt, nephew of world-renowned American architect Richard Morris Hunt
Engine House No. 1, a 1906 firehouse on Morgan Street designed by prominent Jersey City architect George W. Von Arx, home in the 1990s to Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit, and currently under construction as an adaptive reuse showcase
An archaeological maritime relic site on Warren Street, discovered accidentally in 1992 by Public Service utility crews and re-entombed due to the demands of local preservation advocates
The National Register of Historic Places-designated Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse, the iconic industrial monument that has been the catalyst for development in the waterfront district since the 2000s and which stands at a crossroads as the Port Authority prepares to leave the site and a new municipal administration takes office*
* Note: This is an exterior exploration of the Powerhouse as the building is still currently occupied and off limits to the public
Dazzling Digital Design by Shirin MacCormack 2025
Show your support for the Powerhouse by booking tickets for a curated series of exterior Save the Powerhouse walking tours organized by the non-profit Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy and guided by preservation activist John Gomez — because the Powerhouse needs us!
