Structures like this one used to be common across the Somerset Hills. Does anyone know what it is? This photo is fairly recent—February 1971.
We’ll post the answer in a few days.
ANSWER: The building is a wellhouse. Wellhouses covered wells so no one accidentally fell in. They also provided a framework for a crank to lower and raise a water bucket.
This wellhouse still stands on the historic Kennedy-Martin-Stelle Farmstead (Farmstead Arts) on King George Road in Bernards Township.
