The Oldwick Historic District is a national

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 (Main Street), Church, King, James, Joliet and William streets in the Oldwick section of Tewksbury Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1988, for its significance in architecture, commerce, and industry. It includes 127

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 ...

, 12 contributing structures, and one contributing site. The

Kline Farmhouse The Kline Farmhouse, also known as Cold Spring Cottage, is located on a farm along County Route 517 (Old Turnpike Road), north of Oldwick in Tewksbury Township of Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Built by Jacob Kline in the 1790s, it was added ...

, listed individually in 1984, also contributes to the district. Many of the buildings were documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey. With

History

In the 1740s, Ralph Smith bought land in the northern part of Oldwick. The Zion Lutheran Church was built in 1749 and remodeled in 1831 using vernacular Gothic/

Greek Revival style 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 ...

. The Tewksbury Inn was built in 1800 with Colonial Revival embellishment. The Oldwick Methodist Church was built in 1865 with

Romanesque Revival style 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 ...

Gallery of contributing properties

Selected properties that are pivotal, that is, the most important to the district in terms of architecture or history, as described by the nomination form. File:57 Main Street, Oldwick, NJ - General Store.jpg, General Store File:55 Main Street, Oldwick, NJ - Tewksbury Inn.jpg, Tewksbury Inn File:Main Street, Oldwick, NJ - contributing property ID-3.jpg, Van Doren House File:Zion Lutheran Church, Oldwick, NJ - south view.jpg, Zion Lutheran Church File:Green house with tree and driveway in Oldwick New Jersey.JPG, Queen Anne style house File:House with trees and shrubberies in Oldwick New Jersey.JPG, Victorian style house

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