What Is It? — A Quiz

Structures like this one used to be common across the Somerset Hills. Does anyone know what it is? This photo is fairly recent—February 1971.

We’ll post the answer in a few days.

ANSWER:   The building is a wellhouse.  Wellhouses covered wells so no one accidentally fell in.  They also provided a framework for a crank to lower and raise a water bucket.

This wellhouse still stands on the historic Kennedy-Martin-Stelle Farmstead (Farmstead Arts) on King George Road in Bernards Township.