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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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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In 1918 with World War I raging in Europe, the world suddenly faced a global influenza outbreak. New Jersey and the Somerset Hills were soon impacted and hospitals in Morristown and Somerville were crowded with seriously ill patients. Local organizations needed to step up to meet the public health emergency. In the Somerset Hills, the
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A classic picture postcard of Lamington, Bedminster Township, NJ. The “bird’s eye” view looks north along Cowperthwaite Road. The Lamington Presbyterian Church, founded in 1740 (current church dates to 1826, moved in 1885) can be seen in the distance. On the left, are the steps into Lamington Black Cemetery. Today, a historical monument stands next
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Have you found yourself, parents, or grandparents on the 1950 U.S. Census? The National Archives made this census public on April 1, 2022, and you can search for people by name after registering for a free ID at: https://www.familysearch.org/1950census/. The 1950 Census provides a wealth of information on individuals—famous and not-so-famous—and the neighborhoods they lived
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The Rectory and Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Bernardsville around 1905. The Rev. Joseph A. Ryan (1870-1929) served as the first pastor (1898-1914), at first without a church. Services were held initially at the Somerset Inn on Mendham Road. The church opened its doors in 1900 with major support from
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The Bedminster Reformed Church was organized in 1758 and built three churches during its history. The second (photo left) was a wooden structure built in 1818. It stood facing south in the old cemetery on Route 202-206. After a new church was built on Main Street in Bedminster village in 1897 (currently Grace Chapel), the
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