Upper Clinton Hill neighborhood is served by the Newark Public Library's Madison branch.
Newark's highest concentration of vacant land and empty buildings can be found in the Lower Clinton Hill neighborhood, much of it cleared of all but a few clusters of older residences.
Philip was a well-to-do commission merchant and broker who worked in the Wall Street area and lived near fashionable Washington Square in the 1840s.
As commercialization and immigration overtook such Dutch and English Old New York Protestant neighborhoods, wealthy families moved further uptown into free-standing mansions or townhouses made of newly discovered chocolate sandstone (Brownstone) from Paterson, New Jersey.
Tillinghast also joined the land speculators during this era to establish a suburban enclave of wealthy families in what was then Clinton Township.
His home, thought to be called Hawthorn Hill, was located in this area with green spaces and punctuated by churches such as St. Andrews Episcopal and First Presbyterian on Clinton Ave. to serve the WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) population that inhabited the new neighborhood.
A daughter, Mary Elizabeth Tillinghast, was a famous embroidery and stained glass window artist (Grace Church, New-York Historical Society, St. Vincent's Hospital chapel) who had been a partner of John La Farge before going on her own.