This pastoral scene is West Oak Street in 1910 going up the hill from present I-287 to Mount Airy Road. The farm was then known as the Courter Farm after its owner William Courter. The present Courter Street was named for the family. The large barn burned in the 1930s, but the farmhouse, built in
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On June 26, 1944, architect Peter P. Dupay (1900-1985) obtained a building permit for an addition to a residence on Sixth Street in Basking Ridge.[1] But where was Sixth Street? And if Basking Ridge had a Sixth Street, where were First through Fifth? The answer is provided by an 1891 map[2] showing what was called
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Mount Airy Road at intersection of Lake Road, looking north toward Whitenack Road. Prior to Interstate 287 which opened in 1966, Mount Airy was a country road. Photo by Norman Hankinson, c.1955.
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Basking Ridge lost a treasure when Interstate 287 came through the Somerset Hills. The Card House, dating to colonial times, stood on the north side of West Oak St., just to the east of Harrison’s Brook. In the early 1800s it was home to the family of Daniel Henry (1774-1850). Later occupants were the Card
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