The Daniel Robert House is a historic house located at 25 West End Avenue in

Somerville Somerville may refer to: *Somerville College, Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford Places *Somerville, Victoria, Australia * Somerville, Western Australia, a suburb of Kalgoorlie, Australia * Somerville, New Zealand, a subur ...

Somerset County, New Jersey Somerset County is a county located in the north-central part of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States Census, the county's population was 345,361, an increase of 21,917 (6.8%) from the 323,444 counted at the 2010 U.S Cen ...

. The house was built in 1888 for Daniel Robert (1840–1908) by the architectural firm

Lambert & Bunnell Lambert & Bunnell was a long-lived American architectural firm from Bridgeport, Connecticut, in business from 1860 to 1901. It was established by Edward R. Lambert (1834-1904) and Rufus W. Bunnell (1835-1909). Founders and history The founder ...

based on Gothic revival style houses designed by the architect Alexander Jackson Davis. It now serves as the Somerville Borough Hall and the Somerville Public Library. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 2008 for its significance in architecture from 1888 to 1939. With

References

*Historic Advisory Committee Somerville Borough (2020). The County's Handsomest House: The Story of an American Gothic Classic. Kindle Direct.

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* * Somerville, New Jersey Houses in Somerset County, New Jersey National Register of Historic Places in Somerset County, New Jersey New Jersey Register of Historic Places Gothic Revival architecture in New Jersey Houses completed in 1888 {{NewJersey-NRHP-stub