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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

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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

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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

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Date

1932
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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
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Location

morris county40.77892, -74.46287
Google Map of 40.7789189, -74.462868
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Source

Library of Congress
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