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Although the
house is believed to have predated 1680 maps, the Stone House by
the Stone House Brook is significant for the period 1866 to 1916
for its fifty-year association with the productive career of
William Augustus Brewer, Jr., who is significant in the past of
South Orange, New Jersey, for this period, for community
planning and development, politics/government, and education,
and because it possesses integrity of design, materials,
setting, workmanship.
As Trustee and
two-time President of the Village of South Orange, Commissioner
of Assessments, head of the Safety and Order Commission,
Commissioner of Drainage, Chairman of the Board of Education,
and Secretary and President of the South Orange Library, Brewer
spearheaded, often against significant opposition, remarkable
improvements in South Orange which ranked him "was one of the
pioneers" in the movement which led to the development of South
Orange as a place of suburban residence.
This building is
the last remaining building associated with the life of William
Brewer.
Stone House by
Stone House Brook is also significant for historic archaeology
for the period 1747 to 1850, as having yielded, or may be likely
to yield, information for the period between circa 1747 and 1850
in South Orange, New Jersey.
A Phase I/II
archaeological survey has identified an
eighteenth/nineteenth-century trash scatter covering 400 square
feet adjacent to the kitchen door and a late eighteenth/early
nineteenth-century trash midden of about 600 square feet located
20 feet east of the house.
These have
yielded a rich array of cultural material relating to the
occupation of the site by the Pierson, Condit, and Lindsley
families (ca. 1747-1850, who were prominent in the development
and establishment of South Orange in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries.
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Significance of the Old Stone House
Old Stone House
Facts
Old
Stone House Family - Brewer
OLD Stone House Preservation Plan
South
Orange Village Old Stone House Task Force
SOHPS Old Stone House
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