2000 Annual Report New Jersey Historic Preservation Office Department of Environmental Protection • Division of Parks and Forestry Highlights Looking Back ❖ 26 new listings were added to the New Jersey & National Registers of Historic Places, now totaling Thinking Forward 1580 listings. & ❖ HPO assisted 63 applicants in qualifying for investment tax his past year again brought new faces to the NJ Historic Preservation credits, leveraging more than TOffice (HPO). Our shared NJ Transit positions were filled by $79 million in construction Dara Callender and Marianne Walsh this past year. Dara, a civil engineer activity. formerly with Lichtenstein Engineering, is working on the light rail construc- tion projects and Marianne, architectural historian formerly with Cultural ❖ 2 new Certified Local Resource Consulting Group, assists NJ Transit with existing rail lines and Government municipalities passenger facilities. Kurt Leasure joined the HPO staff this past October from joined the program raising a background in restoration contracting. Both Marianne and Kurt earned their the total of participating Masters Degree in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. communities to 33. Judy Abramsohn joined the HPO staff last spring to assist the Technical ❖ 11 CLG HPC members received Information & Regulatory Services Section. Steve Hardegen, currently working tuition assistance grants totaling toward his Masters in Public History from Rutgers University, is undertaking $12,750 the survey of Revolutionary War sites in New Jersey as part of the American Battlefield Protection Program. Steve was formerly an intern in the office. ❖ 5 new FY 2000 CLG grant awards were made for $60,694 for technical assistance, educa- The year 2000 was filled with ing in 2001. Twenty-six new sites tion and planning projects. many new initiatives. In conjunc- were added to the New Jersey tion with the Alice Paul Centennial and/or National Registers of ❖ 47 SHPO Opinions of Eligibility Foundation, the Women’s Heritage Historic Places, representing a were rendered. Trail survey got underway and (at good diversity in property types. ❖ the time of this writing) a database One notable addition to the regis- 2006 requests for Section 106 was created identifying more than ter was the Kings Highway Historic consultation were logged. 250 potential women’s historic District, encompassing five munici- ❖ 207 applications for project sites. HPO began collecting infor- palities in two counties, ten miles authorization under the NJ mation on civil war monuments long, and the first historically Register of Historic Places Act that will eventually lead to a the- “evolved” road to be listed in were reviewed. matic nomination. In preparation New Jersey. HPO has been for our 2001 annual conference, a working with the Green Acres and ❖ 13 TEA-21 projects were student intern has been gathering Farmland Preservation programs reviewed. data on professional landscape to identify and protect potentially ❖ architects that have practiced in eligible historic resources on 257 orders filled for HPO free New Jersey and has created a data- property slated for acquisition publications representing a total of 4,400 items. base of extant historic landscapes. using state funds. This information will be published Once again, the HPO experi- ❖ 610 researchers, consultants, in our Spring issue of The Bulletin. enced an increase in the number agencies and organizations Through our certified local govern- of projects we reviewed under utilized the HPO library and ment program, we were able to Section 106 of the National project files. fund five new local surveys, the Historic Preservation Act. This results of which will be forthcom- increase reflects the strong ❖ 95 researchers attended HPO resource training. economy in New Jersey. 2001 will survey questionnaire. If you haven’t see a number of rehabilitation pro- already done so, please fill it out and jects utilizing the Investment Tax let your thoughts be known. I am Credit nearing completion. Plans are also anxiously awaiting the debut of underway for a $40M project on the our web page early in the new year National Newark Building to create and at long last we will be moving an office and retail complex. We are forward on the comprehensive sur- working with the Pennrose Corp. in vey of Salem County in conjunction Salem to create 182 new units of with our GIS pilot project. affordable housing utilizing both the Best wishes for a healthy and affordable housing credits and the prosperous new year. investment tax credit. The new year promises to be just Sincerely, as filled with activity as this last one was as we launch the state-wide his- toric preservation planning endeavor. We will be conducting public forums Dorothy P. Guzzo around the state this spring and have already received a good return on our Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer ARCHITECTURE & ARCHAEOLOGY Newark Airport - Building 51 In 1980 the Historic at Newark Airport. At that time, the Preservation Office Historic Preservation Office, consult- prepared a nomination for ing with both the Port Authority and the early buildings of the FAA, sought to ensure that the Newark Airport, including old Airport Administration Building, the 1935 Airport which sits at the north end of the Administration Building main runway would be protected for (now called Building 51). the future. Because of its location at When Building 51 was com- the end of the runway, it became pleted, Newark Airport was impossible to provide public use of arguably the most important the building in its historic location Historic Photo - Newark Airport airport in the world. The with airplanes taking off and landing ribbon cutting ceremony just in front of the building. was attended by Amelia As a result of the early identifica- Earhart. Charles Lindberg kept his tion of Building 51’s significance, personal plane at the airport, and all and in part because of concerns air-mail to and from the east coast expressed about the effect of the came through Newark Airport. runway extension project on the In the year 2000, the Historic building, the Port Authority came up Preservation Office worked with the with the imaginative solution to the Port Authority of NY & NJ and the building’s plight. Historic Building Federal Aviation Administration to 51 will be relocated to a site at save the historic Airport Newark Airport where it can serve to Administration Building. house the administrative offices of During the late 1990’s, the Port the Port Authority. The Art Deco Authority sought approval from the lobby of Building 51 will be restored Federal Aviation Administration and become the lobby for the Port (FAA) to lengthen the main runway Authority offices. 2 Preserving New Jersey’s Railroad History New Jersey has a rich and varied Those treasures industrial history that includes the include 49 individual surge and eventual dominance in buildings in the New transportation of the railroad in the Jersey and National nineteenth and early twentieth Registers of Historic century. At the height of the rail- Places, with an addi- road’s dominance at the turn of the tional eight buildings twentieth century, there were dozens determined eligible for of railroad companies building, own- listing. This fact makes ing or leasing hundreds of miles of NJ Transit the largest track and scores of supporting struc- historic property owner tures. NJ Transit is the modern stew- of all transit agencies in ard of most of the remaining this country. In the past resources from that era, and is taking six years, NJ Transit its role as such seriously. Earlier this has spent $42.2 million year, the Restoration of the Main restoring 14 station Waiting Room at the Hoboken buildings and plans to Terminal Project was honored with a spend another $59.1 Erie-Lackawanna Terminal New Jersey Historic Preservation million to continue Main Waiting Room Hoboken 2000 Award (Historic Preservation work at Hoboken Bulletin, Summer 2000). The Terminal, Newark Penn Station and Terminal is just one of the crown other stations. With NJ Transit’s con- jewels of NJ Transit’s collection of tinuing support of preservation on treasures, and certainly one the rails, we can all look forward to of the more conspicuous restoration more remarkable restorations. projects it has undertaken to date. What’s Cookin’? It Was Stoneware! The New Jersey Department of nate numerous questions of local, Transportation’s (NJDOT) construc- Colonial, and international com- tion of the Route 29 Waterfront merce. For more information Corridor project in Trenton included about this important discovery, provisions for archaeological monitor- see the August/September 2000 ing in sensitive areas. In one such issue of Trenton Potteries, the area, remains of the Lamberton com- newsletter of the Potteries of mercial waterfront, Trenton’s 18th Trenton Society. Additional century port, were suspected. If pre- technical and popular reporting sent, these remains would be deeply will be produced by Hunter buried beneath 19th and 20th centu- Research Associates, through ry fill. The monitoring resulted in contract with NJDOT. discovery of the ruins of William Richards’ stoneware manufactory. This industrial site is mentioned in a few historical documents, but it’s precise location and range of prod- ucts were unknown. The discovery led to an intensive 10-day archaeo- Archaeological remains of William Richards 18th century stoneware kiln logical excavation that recovered found buried beneath