Port Colden School
Port Colden School
Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund
Capital Preservation Grant, Level II
Historic Site Management Grant
Grant Award:
$234,850 (2000); $50,000 (2007), $273,800 (2008)
Grant Recipient:
Washington Township Board of Education
County:
Warren
Municipality:
Washington
The school was constructed in 1869 and exhibits both Italianate and Gothic Revival details. The school is a good example of a gable-fronted, belfry-capped, two-story brick schoolhouse. The building remained in use as a school until 1931. With the opening of a new school building the former school house was briefly used as a courthouse and later as a storage facility.

The current grant will help fund the first floor restoration and second floor rehabilitation. The second floor will house school district offices while the first floor will be interpreted to the public and used as a teaching tool for local and regional students. Its exterior restoration was funded in part by a previous Trust grant. Another grant helped fund the preparation of construction documents and materials analysis. 

For more information, visit: www.warrennet.org/wtsd/old_school.html