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Designed by John T. Rowland, architect of twenty-eight schools and the Jersey City Medical Center, this monumental Beaux-Arts style building sits high on a. The two-story, 2000-seat auditorium, originally lit by a glass ceiling, was the center of the city’s political and cultural life for decades. All three candidates in the 1912 presidential election, Taft, Roosevelt, and Wilson, rally at which Frank Hague, political boss of Hudson County, stepped down from power after thirty years.