page_title: Summit, New Jersey
section_title: Arts and culture
hierarchical_section_title: Summit, New Jersey / Arts and culture
caption_attribution_description: English: The city of Summit, New Jersey, is encouraging a variety of arts-related projects, including singer-songwriter performances such as this one in front of the Starbucks by NXStage Music.
context_page_description: Summit is a city in Union County, New Jersey, United States. At the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 21,457, reflecting an increase of 326 from the 21,131 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 1,374 from the 19,757 counted in the 1990 Census.
  Originally incorporated as Summit Township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 23, 1869, from portions of New Providence Township and Springfield Township, Summit was reincorporated as a city on March 8, 1899.
  Possible derivations of Summit's name include its location atop the Second Watchung Mountain; the Summit Lodge, the house to which jurist James Kent moved in 1837 and which stands today at 50 Kent Place Boulevard; and to a local sawmill owner who granted passage to the Morris and Essex Railroad for a route to "the summit of the Short Hills".
  Summit had the 16th-highest per capita income in the state as of the 2000 Census. According to Bloomberg, Summit ranked as the 70th highest-income place in the United States in 2017, 72nd in 2018, and 65th in 2019.
context_section_description: The Summit Opera House was originally built in the 1890s by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union as a dry entertainment hall and local W.C.T.U. meeting place. It currently houses Winberie's restaurant on the ground floor, and a church, office space, and apartments on the upper floors. It is located at Springfield Avenue and Kent Place Boulevard in downtown Summit.
  In 2019 the city is encouraging artists, including singer-songwriters, to perform at local venues in the downtown area.
  The Summit Playhouse features live dramatic performances.
  The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey on Elm Street diagonally across from the Summit Middle School is a professionally recognized regional art center with an art school and an exhibition program.
  Horseback riding is available at the Watchung stables, located in the Watchung Reservation since the 1930s.
caption: An evening street performance by NXStage Music.
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