Spring 2022 – Update
I'm finishing up a book, rather, a photo journal, on root cellars in Hunterdon County. It has been a long, tedious exercise, full of ups and downs along the way. Now it is full of beautiful photographs of vintage structures. thanks to the property owners willing to share they historic outbuildings. I expect the final …
Franklin Township Smoke Houses
There is a sign on River Road, Franklin Township, that marks a Smoke House dated 1789! And indeed, there is one right there. It is a small stone smoke house, roughly 6'x6', in a field near the South Branch of the Raritan River. Preservation was apparently a project of the Eagle Scouts, as noted on …
Franklin Township Summer Kitchen and Smoke House
Today's search for vintage outbuildings takes me to the NJ Ag Experimental Station, Rutgers University. I had long noticed the stone building not far from the road. It is large, 1.5 stories tall and apparently in excellent condition from what I could see from the road. With permission, I photographed the building, inside and outside. …
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Raritan Township Combination Outbuilding
I drive along Route 31 in Hunterdon County often, daily, in fact, for many years now. Never have I noticed a spring house or any historic outbuilding along the highway. This weekend, however, my husband pointed one out to me! And several other buildings as well. I pulled up to the spot as close as …
Raritan Township Outbuildings
There is a property in Raritan Township of Hunterdon County NJ that always catches my eye. Many times in all kinds of weather, I just have to stop and gaze at the beautiful barn and landscape, much to the chagrin to the motorists behind me. I noticed that there were several outbuildings hidden by trees …
My Photo Essay of Hunterdon County
I noticed my first spring house (photos above and below) in Delaware Township about 8-9 years ago. It is on a small narrow country lane, one that I drove down every day for several years on the way to work in our lab/offices in Rosemont, NJ. I never noticed it until one day there was …
Springhouses in Hunterdon County 