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Schooley's Mountain Historic District is a
historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...
along Schooley's Mountain, Pleasant Grove, and Flocktown Roads, and Heath Lane in the Schooley's Mountain section of Washington Township,
Morris County, New Jersey Morris County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey, about west of New York City. According to the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the county was the state's List of counties in New Jersey, tenth- ...
. It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
on June 14, 1991 for its significance in architecture, entertainment/recreation, and health/medicine. The district includes 71
contributing buildings In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic dist ...
, such as the
Oak Cottage Oak Cottage is a historic home built around 1820 and located in the Schooley's Mountain section of Washington Township in Morris County, New Jersey. The property includes a mill and carriage house built in 1828 and is a contributing property to ...
, site of schoolhouse No. 5, Schooley's Mountain Store, the William W. Marsh House,
Christadelphian The Christadelphians () are a restorationist and nontrinitarian (Biblical Unitarian) Christian denomination. The name means 'brothers and sisters in Christ',"The Christadelphians, or brethren in Christ ... The very name 'Christadelphian' was co ...
Bible Camp, the former Heath House Hotel, former Forest Grove Hydropathic Institute, Mine Hill Farm, the Marsh Mine and several private residences and commercial buildings. With


History

The area grew as a nineteenth century summer resort built around a mineral spring on Schooley's Mountain near a brook that flowed to the
Musconetcong River The Musconetcong River is a tributary of the Delaware River in northwestern New Jersey in the United States.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 It flows throug ...
. Schooley's Mountain Springs were rich in iron, termed
chalybeate Chalybeate () waters, also known as Iron oxide, ferruginous waters, are mineral spring waters containing salts of iron. Name The word ''chalybeate'' is derived from the Latin word for steel, , which follows from the Ancient Greek, Greek word ...
, and said to have healing powers.


Description

The Highlands Presbyterian Church on Heath Lane was built in 1870 and has a three-story bell tower. The William W. Marsh House at 13 Heath Lane was built with
Italianate style The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Ita ...
and is now used by the
Liebenzell Mission The Liebenzell Mission is a cluster of like-minded Evangelical mission organizations in Austria, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States. With roots in German Pietism, their missionaries are inv ...
and named Eben-Ezer. The Strawbridge House at 2 Pleasant Grove Road was built , also with Italianate style. The Terriberry House at 4 Pleasant Grove Road was built with
Shingle style architecture The shingle style is an American architectural style made popular by the rise of the New England school of architecture, which eschewed the highly ornamented patterns of the Eastlake style in Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, Que ...
. The gentleman's farmhouse at 18 Pleasant Grove Road was built and remodeled in
Neoclassical style Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassici ...
. It was once a stop on the stagecoach line between Morristown and Easton.


Gallery of contributing properties

File:Presbyterian Church, Schooley's Mountain, NJ.jpg, Presbyterian Church on Heath Lane File:2 Pleasant Grove Road, Schooley's Mountain, NJ.jpg, Italianate style house at 2 Pleasant Grove Road File:4 Pleasant Grove Road, Schooley's Mountain, NJ.jpg, Shingle style house at 4 Pleasant Grove Road File:18 Pleasant Grove Road, Schooley's Mountain, NJ.jpg, Neoclassical style house at 18 Pleasant Grove Road


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Morris County, New Jersey List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Morris County, New Jersey This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Morris County, New Jersey Mor ...


References


External links

* * {{NRHP in Morris County, New Jersey Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey National Register of Historic Places in Morris County, New Jersey New Jersey Register of Historic Places Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey Queen Anne architecture in New Jersey Italianate architecture in New Jersey Historic districts in Morris County, New Jersey