National Register Listing
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
Liberty Hotel
a.k.a. Liberty Apartment Hotel; Liberty Apartments
1519 Baltic Ave., Atlantic City, NJ Local significance of the building: Black; Ethnic Heritage; Entertainment/recreation
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
About National Register Listings
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.
The first recorded instance of a submarine attack on a ship occurred off the coast of New Jersey during the American Civil War. On February 17, 1864, the Confederate submarine CSS Hunley attacked and sank the Union ship USS Housatonic near Charleston, South Carolina, while on its way from New Jersey.