Congratulations to John Overall, who correctly answered all 18 photos in our photo contest, proving that he knows South Orange and Maplewood best. 

Below are the correct answers (with commentary provided by Overall).

1.  Swimming pool, Columbia High School, Parker Ave. Maplewood.

2.  Shelter House, Memorial Park, Maplewood

3.  Seth Boyden School, 274 Boyden Ave. Maplewood

4.  Fielding School, now know as the Board of Education building, on Academy St. in Maplewood, near Parker.

5.  South Orange Train station, on Sloan St. SO, before the arches were filled in with stores.  Built around 1915 to replace the second train station located there .  The first one was there in 1869, and lasted till the 1880s.

6. Columbia School, until the current namesake High School was built on Parker Ave., located on Acadamy St.  off SOA in SO, where the modern commercial building (formerly the "Midlantic Bank" building) is now located.  AKA the SO Junior High School.

7. Maplewood Junior High School, aka Ricalton, grew in stages during the early parts of the 20th century (first part built 1903).  Baker St. in Maplewood.  (See also #15)  Named for early Maplewood educator and stereo photographer Ricalton, whose house was on Valley St. in Maplewood.

8.  The Washington Inn (as it was then known), aka the Timothy Ball house, located on Ridgewood Rd in Maplewood, built around 1743.  In  April, 1919, the house and 4 acres of land were sold to a consortium of NY and Maplewood men, who planned to develop what is now Washington Park in a kind of harmony with the old house.  Had a cool bed built into the house next to the chimney to keep them warm.

9.  Societa Savoia, 31 Third St.  South Orange.  No idea what this club does.  Altho founded in 1915, it exists at this location only from about 1952/54.  Known member:
Anthony "Bunny" D. Magliaro, 88, of Toms River passed away at home surrounded by his loving family on Monday, Oct. 10, 2011.  Also location of Children's Learning Tree School/preschool.  Formerly On Time Printing, a family operation.  President (?) in 1954 at the building was Soccorso DiMutuo

10 former home of Century Masonic Lodge 100 F & AM, corner of Irvington and Prospect in South Orange.

11. Home of Walter A Stiefel (and Martha Stiefel, probably built by Carl and Antonia Stiefel?), 150 Scotland Rd.  Part of the land was sold off to the Temple next door for expansion.  Not sure what Walter did but he was not the "Stiefel" of "Stiefel (actually Steffel) lamps"

12.  home of Louis Bamberger (of Macy's and Bamberger's fame) 602 Centre St. became the Veteran's Hospital on Centre St. by Orange

13.  Mansion of Edward Hale Graves and Jean Stevenson Graves.  Taken over by Marylawn of the Oranges, located on Scotland Rd, right next to the School, which is on the corner of Montrose Ave.  Mansion (and school?) are possible future location of "planned" condos  (AAaaarrrrggghhhh!!)

14.  St. Andrews Church, was located on Centre St. near the Orange border.  Burned in a fire in 1982, and its congregation was absorbed into Holy Communion Church on Ridgewood & South Orange Ave.

15.  old Maplewood Library, replaced by the main one on Baker St.  It was first used as a school, sometime after 1869, until 1903, when Ricalton (see above) was started, and it became Maplewood Town Hall (after being purchased by the Maplewood Improvement Association, a group of residents).  Sometime later, it became the Library.  It was located on Maplewood Ave. where the current (and sometime to be discontinued) current Post Office is.

16. Temperance Hall, allegedly located at 22 Valley St., was the first South Orange School building.  Kassinger Bros (Charles G & Peter J)  was a meat store, located at 9 Valley St.which also had a location on 149 (and 145) Maplewood Ave. in Maplewood.   It was located by the playard at the back of the Junior Hight School, aka Columbia School above.) .  The Maplewood location continued on after the SO one closed.  There was yet another Kassinger meat store on SOA.  (I trust the address of 9 Valley for Kallinger's, and the picture shows the Kallinger store.  QED: I believe the correct address is number 9, number 9, number 9.......)

17. The South Orange Rail Tower, located along the line, near the extreme east end of the rail yard.  Built in 1902.  (South Orange had a large yard, with a roundhouse, where early trains were reversed on a rotating table.)  David Decker is one of the kids in the picture.  Probably closed down (torn down?) when the rail yard and roundhouse were closed.

18. The Wyoming Synagogue.  Damned if I can out anything about this building.  It was NOT located on Wyoming Ave. between 1938 and 1960, but since Wyoming was also an area between Millburn and Maplewood, it might have been on a side street.  I assume it was Jewish, but no temples under any name are listed in that area.  A real mystery!!!