The Blackledge-Gair House at 111 Madison Avenue between Brookside Avenue and Waverly Place in
Cresskill, New Jersey
Cresskill is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States census, the borough's population was 8,573,Bergen County, New Jersey, and is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
, where its period of significance was given as 1800–1849. In 1861 it was listed as the residence of J.P. Blackledge, and in 1876 as that of
Robert Gair
Robert Gair was a Scottish printer and paper bag maker who invented the folding carton in 1879.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1839 he came to the United States at age 14. Gair invented the paperboard folding carton by accident when a metal rule ...
National Register of Historic Places listings in Bergen County, New Jersey
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The table below includes sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bergen County, New Jersey except those in Closter, Franklin Lakes, Ridgewood, Saddle River and Wyckoff, which are listed separately (links to th ...