The Westervelt-Lydecker House is a locally significant example of Dutch Colonial architecture and associated with the exploration and settlement of Bergen County. The 1750s stone house retains many eighteenth- and nineteenth-century features and yet an altered wing provides opportunities for rehabilitation. Located in a Green Acres acquisition parcel abutting a municipal park, the Borough's recent acquisition will likely protect the property from likely subdivision and development.

The grant will help fund a landscape design and its construction subsequent to the planning studies aided by a Trust grant in 2001. The design will be developed in conjunction with completed documentation of historic landscape features and include stabilization and interpretation of foundations, millrace traces, and archaeological discoveries made during the initial study.

The Trust grant will fund sections of a preservation plan compiled by an interdisciplinary team including a historic preservation consultant, archeologist, structural engineer and landscape architect. The plan will be used to guide future planning decisions and to establish preservation priorities in reusing the building as a community center linked with the adjacent park.