New Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund
Recommendations Presented to the Garden State Preservation Trust

October 17, 2000

Historic Site Management Grants

  1. Cumberland County Historical Association, Greenwich, Cumberland County, $7,500 for preservation plan for John DuBois Maritime Museum
  2. Levoy Theatre Preservation Society, Millville, Cumberland County, $31,500 for preservation plan and marketing study for 1908-1912 movie palace
  3. Township of Greenwich, Cumberland County, $5,000.25 for preservation plan for 1811 building which has been used as a school, militia training headquarters and town hall
  4. The Montclair Historical Society, Montclair, Essex County, $48,071 for marketing and development plans to support preservation work on for three historic properties
  5. Friends of Holly Bush, Glassboro, Gloucester County, $50,000 for paint and finish analysis of first floor rooms in 1849 Italianate villa
  6. Historical and Educational Lodge-Hall Preservatory, Swedesboro, Gloucester County, $7,125 for a preservation plan for the state's last "separate but equal" school for African-Americans
  7. Tewksbury Historical Society, Tewksbury, Hunterdon County, $30,907.50 for preservation plan for Greek Revival-style Christy House
  8. Historical Society of Princeton, Princeton Borough, Mercer County, $35,155 for feasibility study for 18th century Bainbridge and Beatty Houses
  9. City of Trenton, Department of Recreation, Natural Resources and Culture, Trenton, Mercer County, $50,000 for management and rehabilitation plan for 100-acre Cadwalader Park
  10. Mercer County Park Commission, Hopewell Township, Mercer County, $28,453.24 for master plan for 128-acre Howell Living History Farm
  11. Historic Morven, Princeton, Mercer County, $26,235 for a preservation plan for 20th century outbuildings and garden landscape
  12. Trenton Jewish Community Center, Ewing Township, Mercer County, $23,325 for preservation plan for Louis Kahn-designed Bath House and Day Camp Pavilions
  13. Women's Club of Red Bank, Red Bank, Monmouth County, $16,500 for preservation plan for 1870 Anthony Reckless Estate
  14. Christ Church, Middletown, Monmouth County, $12,075 for preservation plan and structural analysis of 1836 landmark church
  15. Township of Wayne, Passaic County, $20,880 for preservation plan and structural analysis of Schuyler-Colfax house museum
  16. Rahway Historical Society, Rahway, Union County, $50,000 for historic landscape report and master plan for 18th-century Merchants and Drovers Tavern
  17. Help Our Preservation Effort, Hope, Warren County, $29,475 for historic structures report of early Moravian residence, the Long House
  18. Warren County Planning Department, Franklin, Warren County, $30,000 for planning documents to help interpret Morris Canal archeological site, a proposed county park

Capital Preservation Grants

  1. County of Bergen, Hackensack Township, Bergen County, $637,057.50 for exterior restoration of 1912 Old (Bergen County) Jail
  2. William R. Allen School, Burlington, Burlington County, $200,010 for stabilization and exterior restoration of former school for use as adult day care facility
  3. Bancroft NeuroHealth, Haddonfield, Camden County, $200,148 for exterior restoration of 1886 Victorian-style residence and carriage house
  4. City of North Wildwood, Cape May County, $102,000 for restoration of Hereford Inlet Light Station roof and chimneys
  5. Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts, Cape May, Cape May County, $97,651 for landscape restoration and handicapped accessibility at Emlen Physick Estate
  6. Naval Air Station Wildwood Foundation, Cape May, Cape May County, $535,246 for restoration of World War II era Navy airplane hangar
  7. County of Cumberland, Bridgeton Township, Cumberland County, $260,127 for restoration of cupola on 1909 courthouse
  8. Maurice River Historical Society, Heislerville, Cumberland County, $300,000 for interior restoration of 1849 East Point Lighthouse
  9. St. Columba's Roman Catholic Church, Newark City, Essex County, $692,907 for structural repairs and exterior restoration of 1897 Renaissance Revival church
  10. Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center, Bloomfield, Essex County, $195,000 for rehabilitation of historic residence's carriage house into horticultural learning center
  11. Friends of Holly Bush, Glassboro, Gloucester County, $750,000 for restoration of 1849 Italianate residence for museum and meeting space
  12. Saints Peter and Paul Orthodox Church, Jersey City, Hudson County, $268,424 for replacement of copper roofs and stucco repair on 19th century church
  13. First Federated Church, Bayonne City, Hudson County, $152,164 for roof and drainage repairs to Italianate-style Old Dutch Bergen Reformed Church
  14. Lambertville Historical Society, Lambertville, Hunterdon County, $10,070 for exterior repairs and roof replacement on Federal-style James Wilson Marshall House
  15. Invention Factory Science Center, Trenton, Mercer County, $750,000 for adaptive use of 1890 Roebling Machine Shop for educational science center
  16. Princeton University, Princeton Borough, Mercer County, $750,000 for exterior restoration and handicapped accessibility of 1928 university chapel
  17. Township of Cranbury, Middlesex County, $529,035 for adaptive use of 1896 school building for municipal center
  18. St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Perth Amboy Township, Middlesex County, $232,406.51 for exterior restoration of 1853 church
  19. St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Freehold Borough, Monmouth County, $139,784 for restoration of steeple and roof systems on 18th century church
  20. Allentown Public Library Association, Inc., Allentown, Monmouth County, $134,000 for exterior restoration and structural stabilization of 1879 former church now used as a library
  21. Children's Cultural Center at Red Bank, Inc., Red Bank Township, Monmouth County, $750,000 for adaptive use of former town hall as children's cultural center
  22. Middletown Township, Monmouth County, $278,175 for stabilization and restoration of 1750 Grover House
  23. Monmouth University, West Long Branch, Monmouth County, $750,000 for restoration and rehabilitation of roofs on Beaux-Arts landmark Woodrow Wilson Hall
  24. Morris County Park Commission, Morris Township, Morris County, $172,249 for restoration of residential and farm buildings at Fosterfields Living Historical Farm
  25. Georgian Court College, Lakewood, Ocean County, $168,723 for repair and restoration of historic court tennis court on National Historic Landmark campus
  26. Lakewood Development Corporation, Lakewood, Ocean County, $475,171 for exterior repairs and air conditioning of 1922 Strand Theatre
  27. New Jersey Community Development Corporation, Paterson City, Passaic County, $750,000 for adaptive use of Rogers Locomotive Frame Fitting Shop for community services
  28. First Presbyterian Church of Salem, City of Salem, Salem County, $371,460 for exterior and landscape restoration of 1856 church designed by John McArthur, Jr.
  29. Friends of the Vanderveer-Knox House, Bedminster Township, Somerset County, $322,840 for restoration of Jacobus Vanderveer House to its 19th century appearance
  30. Grace Episcopal Church, Plainfield, Union County, $422,500 for exterior and stained glass restoration of 1892 Gothic Revival church
  31. Y.W.C.A. of Plainfield/North Plainfield, Plainfield, Union County, $200,000 for restoration of and handicapped accessibility to theater in English Tudor-style YMCA building
  32. Washington Township Board of Education, Port Colden, Warren County, $234,850 for adaptive use of 1869 school as children's library and media center