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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Basking Ridge made big-time society news in 1901 when a runaway New York heiress hid out at the Washington House for several days. Helen Bloodgood, age 18, the daughter of William Bloodgood of the American Felt Company disappeared from her 83 Irving Place home in Manhattan on September 19, 1901. The New York World reported
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This picture postcard shows Allen’s Hotel in Liberty Corner, NJ, which, based on the sign, was also known as the Liberty Corner Hotel. The card’s undivided back dates the photo to 1907 or before. The hotel occupied the corner where the Exxon station now stands and faced Valley Road. According to the 1850 Somerset County map
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During the 1930s and 40s, Burnt Mills in Bedminster boasted a summer hotel, the Hartfeld House, run by Solomon Hartfeld / Hartfield (1866-1947) and his son Isadore (1890-1976), Jewish immigrants from Austria. The hotel was built on the old Paulison farm along the North Branch of the Raritan River, above the current Burnt Mills Road
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