A postcard from 1905 shows the Somerset Inn, located in Bernardsville, NJ. The inn stood on Mendham Road, near Washington Corner Road and became a resort destination for the rich and famous in society after the railroad was extended (1872) to Bernardsville. Many guests liked the area so much that they later built homes of
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Before the rise of chain pharmacies, the Somerset Hills had many small drug stores. Somerset Pharmacy was founded in 1893 in Bernardsville, NJ, by George W. Burns (1865-1934). The store was located on Olcott Square in the spot occupied until recently by Mediterranean Tile. The original building burned in the 1960s. This image of the
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The Olcott School (built 1905) is conspicuous in this photo that depicts eight men astride a 60-foot windmill, which they likely had just erected at 20 Olcott Avenue in Bernardsville, NJ. The slatted fanwheel and tail are just out of view at the top of the frame. Windmills like these, a common innovation across the
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A stone wall provides a nice place to rest in this early 20th century photo titled “On the Road to Bernardsville.” The location may be North Finley Avenue on the curve near Fox Hollow Trail. The direction is looking south toward Basking Ridge. The stone wall is no longer there and may have been part
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Architectural and Cultural Significance St. Bernard’s Church and its original parish house in Bernardsville, New Jersey, are architecturally and culturally significant, in part because they were designed by two of America’s leading architects of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moreover, the church features a notable set of English stained glass windows. The architectural
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These smiling people are the Bernards High (NJ) Yearbook Board in June 1921. The students graduated with the class of 1922, so the committee was likely formed to produce the upcoming yearbook. Their names are written on the back. Bernardsville High School 1921Taken June 1921. The honorable Year Book BoardReading from left to right Standing:Janet
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Bernardsville School was a one-room schoolhouse that stood along Anderson Hill Road, just north of the old Methodist Cemetery. The building was the original Methodist Church and was sometimes called the Old Methodist Church Schoolhouse although it was a public school. In the early 1880s, after the Methodists built a new church on Church Street,
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The team was formed in October 1938, largely from former or current Bernards High students from Bernardsville and Bedminster who wished to participate in organized hockey. The club joined the New Jersey Hockey League which had teams from Lake Hopatcong, Mt. Tabor, Rockaway, Morristown, and Fairfield. The Bernardsville club went 5-7 during the 1938-39 season.
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The Bernards Fife and Drum Corps, Bernardsville, NJ, was organized on July 16, 1906 and posed that year for this photo, possibly before a parade. The date is supported by a note on the reverse by Edwin S. Spinning, fire company president, who also identified the building on the right as Bernardsville’s first firehouse. The
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After philanthropist Frederic P. Olcott died in 1909, many placenames in Bernardsville, NJ, were renamed in his honor, including Olcott Square, the Olcott building, and Olcott Avenue. Do you know what Olcott Avenue was called before it was renamed? For the answer, go to the THSSH Archives. Note, the archive document dates to 1914, when
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