28-Oct-2024
9/11 Memorial in Horseshoe Lake Park
We took a short walk, enjoying the warm sun and the magical light of the late afternoon.
02-Jun-2024
Rutherfurd Hall
An old mansion with a link to the Rutherfurd/Stuyvesant families. We love to come here for concerts and walk in the park.
Today Rutherfurd Hall is a cultural center and museum owned and managed by the Allamuchy Township Board of Education.
Rutherfurd Hall History
Soon after his marriage to Alice Morton (1879-1917) in February 1902, Winthrop Rutherfurd (1862-1944) asked his close friend famed New York architect Whitney Warren to design for them a summer cottage, Rutherfurd House. The resulting Tudor-style, 18,000 square foot mansion is a notable example of an estate built at the turn of the 20th century representing the Country Place Era (1890-1930.) (For the formal landscape design the Rutherfurd’s chose the premier landscape architects in the country, the Olmsted brothers.) These country retreats, built in settings of great natural beauty, offered an escape for prominent Americans from the noise and pollution of urban centers. Winthrop and Alice Rutherfurd’s advantage was that their setting of great natural beauty had been in the Rutherfurd family for generations.
The Rutherfurd presence in this area of New Jersey dates back to the mid-eighteenth century with the marriage of Walter Rutherfurd, recently arrived from Scotland to fight in the French and Indian War, to Catherine Alexander Parker in 1758. The family’s country residence and landholdings expanded as it passed generationally. By 1906, Winthrop Rutherfurd’s Allamuchy Farms and his brother Rutherfurd Stuyvesant’s neighboring Tranquillity Farms encompassed over 6,000 acres in both Sussex and Warren counties. Guests to the estates included titans of industry, a U.S. President, a former U.S. Vice-President and European royalty. park.
02-Jun-2024
A very old oak at Rutherfurd Hall
April 04, 2023
Aquarium at the Opry Mills Mall
05-Nov-2023
Arbor behind ranger building
17-Oct-2023
Walking around Horseshoe Lake in Fall
12-Oct-2023
A perfect day to visit the Highpoint Monument
The view from the bench by Lake Marcia was delightful and the weather was balmy.
07-Jun-2023
Haze over Washington Square Mall
16-May-2023
Relocated Statue of Christopher Columbus
12-Oct-2022
Grand Ole Opry - Fall of 2022
15-Oct-2022
Bully 108, a modern steam engine
In 1900 this steam engine was modern. This train was meant to contrast the chariot on the opposite end of the lobby to show how far travel had progressed.
15-Oct-2022
History of transportation relief artwork in the lobby
The way a Pharaoh and his wife were being pulled by chariot.
15-Oct-2022
GLASS PANEL WITH RAILROAD LOGO L&N
15-Oct-2022
Partial view of the lobby
This is a partial view of the three story high lobby of the Union Station Hotel. It now is a show piece in the Marriott Autograph Collection. The ceiling of the lobby houses 128 panels of original curved stained glass manufactured by The Luminous Prism Company, a competitor of the Tiffany Glass Competitor.
15-Oct-2022
Lobby Chandelier
This is one of the beautiful chandeliers hanging in the third floor lobby of the Union Station Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee.
12-Oct-2022
Our annual visit to the Grand Ole Opry
28-Aug-2022
A perfect set-up for a bench in the shade
Today was move-in day at Centenary University in Hackettstown, New Jersey.
30-Apr-2022
Lafayette Cemetery 1828
This cemetery was created in the hilly countryside of Sussex County, New Jersey.
26-Feb-2022
View of the High Point Monument from the Cross Country Center
There was no cross country skiing taking place today, because of icy conditions and lack of fresh snow.
26-Feb-2022
Cross country ski area
There were no customers at the cross country ski section, because the snow had turned into a sheet of frozen crud. You could not even indent the surface by stepping on it.
