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Maple Lawn Postcard

September 26, 2025September 26, 2025 by Roy Crego 1 Comment

Maple Lawn, seen here in a c.1913 postcard, still stands at 30 East Craig Street in Basking Ridge, NJ. It is an impressive Victorian house in the Second Empire style featuring a Mansard roof. Architectural surveys (c.1990s) and John C. Smith’s historical map of Basking Ridge date the house to around 1865. However, the building

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