Brookrace Estate, Horse Barn, Located 0.3 mile north of Pleasant Valley Road, & 0.4 mile east of Union School House Road, Morristown, Morris County, NJ
Summary
Significance: Originally the horse barn (ca. 1914) for Brookrace Estate, this barn was adaptively reused for dormitory space, recreation, publication work and film making by the Boy Scouts of America under the leadership of William Hillcourt. It originally had stables on the ground floor and employee residential space on the upper floor. It was enlarged at the west end, probably during the estate era.
Survey number: HABS NJ-1216-B
Building/structure dates: 1914 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1932 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1932
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Boy Scouts of America
Hillcourt, William
Alfson, Mary, transmitter
Tucher, Rob, photographer
Gibbs, Nancy L, historian
Baranowski, Elise, historian
Location
morris county, 40.77892, -74.46287
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html