Historic Districts

Historic Districts

 

Franklin Corners

Childs Road & Route 202
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920

Entered in State Register
December 12, 1974
Entered in National Register
May 12, 1975

Consists of 50 acres including 13 structures, and its focal point, the Van Dorn Mill, c.1843, one of the finest examples of stonework in N.J.  First residents were farmers and millers, settled in mid-1700s.  Present mill replaced original one of 1768 which supplied Washington's troops with grain.  Operational until World War II.  

Liberty Corner

Entered in State Register
August 16, 1991
Entered in National Register
October 11, 1991

Consists of 142 acres - 84 contributing, 7 non-contributing buildings, 1 stone bridge and liberty pole site, centerpiece is Liberty Corner Presbyterian Church, built 1868-69, an Italianate structure.  

Lyons Veterans Adminsitration Hospital 

Entered in State Register
April 29, 2013
Entered in National Register
July 3, 20213

The Lyons VA Hospital Historic District is significant as an excellent example of a Period II neuropsychiatric Second Generation Veterans Hospital because it retains the majority of characteristics associated with this veterans hospital sub-type incorporating elements of the Colonial Revival and Classical Revival architectural styles that were nationally popular following World War I and continuing beyond the Second World War. The use of porticos, quoins, pilasters, balustrades, pedimented gables, dentil cornice lines, and cornice retl.lrnS reflects the influence of these styles. Construction began on the Lyons VA Hospital in June 1929. The facility opened to patients in November 1930, with thirty-eight buildings completed by 1931. Additional buildings and structures continued to be constructed within the historic district throughout the twentieth century, including a second building boom in the 1940s.