The Fairmount Historic District is a
historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...
located along
County Route 517 in the
Fairmount section of
Tewksbury Township, near
Califon, in
Hunterdon County, New Jersey
Hunterdon County is a county located in the western section of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the county's population was 128,947, making it the state's 18th-most populous county,[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 v ...]
on December 20, 1996 for its significance in architecture, exploration/settlement, and industry. The district includes 72
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 distric ...
that were deemed to be contributing to the historic character of the area, plus five contributing structures, nine contributing sites, and one contributing object. One contributing building is located in
Washington Township,
Morris County.
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History
The Fairmount Presbyterian Church was founded in 1747 as a German Reformed congregation.
By the 1880s, Fairmount had two churches, two stores, a sawmill, gristmill, schoolhouse, and the largest tannery in the county.
Description
The Fairmount United Methodist Church was built in 1868 with
Romanesque Revival
Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to ...
and
Italianate
The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...
styles. The Fairmount Presbyterian Church was built from 1851 to 1852 with
Greek Revival
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...
and
Shingle styles. The small lime kiln dates to the nineteenth century. The house at 397 Fairmount Road, the single contributing property in Morris County, was built with Greek Revival style.
Gallery
File:Presbyterian Church, Fairmount, NJ.jpg, Fairmount Presbyterian Church
File:Lime kiln, Fairmount, NJ.jpg, Lime kiln
File:397 Fairmount Road, Fairmount, NJ.jpg, Greek Revival style house at 397 Fairmount Road
See also
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Morris County, New Jersey
References
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{{NRHP in Morris County, New Jersey
Tewksbury Township, New Jersey
Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey
National Register of Historic Places in Hunterdon County, New Jersey
National Register of Historic Places in Morris County, New Jersey
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
Queen Anne architecture in New Jersey
Italianate architecture in New Jersey