Built in the mid-19th century, it was the home of Timothy Thomas Fortune (1856–1928), a leading African-American journalist and civil rights advocate, from 1901 to 1908.

[2] It is now owned by a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting Fortune's legacy of activism and community involvement.

The T. Thomas Fortune House is located southwest of downtown Red Bank, on the north side of Drs.

The house is an eclectically styled Victorian wood-frame structure, with two full stories and a third underneath a mansard roof.

The Fortunes named the property "Maple Hall", and made it a center of the local African-American community, hosting social, cultural and political events.