The Madison Civic Commercial District is a area of downtown

Madison Madison may refer to: People * Madison (name), a given name and a surname * James Madison (1751–1836), fourth president of the United States Place names * Madison, Wisconsin, the state capital of Wisconsin and the largest city known by this ...

, Morris County,

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, United States. It includes 450 buildings and one structure in an area roughly bounded by Main Street ( NJ 124), Kings Road, Green Avenue, Waverly Place, Lincoln Place and Prospect Street. It had been the historic core of Madison starting in the late 19th century. In 1930 its most significant property, the Hartley Dodge Memorial Building that currently serves as Madison's borough hall, was donated by local landowner

Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (April 3, 1882 – August 13, 1973) was the youngest child of William Avery Rockefeller Jr. and Almira Geraldine (Goodsell) Rockefeller. Giralda Farms was the name given to the New Jersey country estate wher ...

in memory of her son Marcellus, who had died at age 22. It was added to the

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in 1991.

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{{National Register of Historic Places Geography of Morris County, New Jersey Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey Madison, New Jersey New Jersey Register of Historic Places

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