L'Ecole Kinnelon Museum and Butler Railroad Awarded Historic Preservation Grants

and the 1889 Butler Railroad Station will benefit from non-construction grants awarded by the Morris County Preservation Trust Fund.

Twenty four historic sites in 15 Morris County towns were selected to receive funding for construction and non-construction preservation projects. The Morris County Freeholders approved $2.57 million to help preserve the sites. At the sites, 29 projects will be completed.

Wharton received the largest construction grant, receiving $286,450 for restorations to the Morris Canal Incline Lock 2 East. The lock and surrounding buildings, including the Tender's House, are part of the Morris Canal Historic District. Restorations will include bringing the lock's walls up to historic elevation and fabricating wood lock gates.

The second and third largest grants were awarded to Mountain Lakes ($261,000) for the replacement of the roof on the borough’s first school, the Lake Drive School, built in 1914, and to Roxbury ($48,560) for the completion of construction documents for the first and second phases of refurbishing the King Homestead Museum, a former store and post office built in 1881.

The Mount Tabor Historical Society was awarded a non-construction grant to complete a master plan for the Mount Tabor Historic District in Parsippany and the First Presbyterian Church of Succasunna was awarded a non-construction grant to complete nomination forms for the National Register of Historic Places for the Succasunna Historic District.

Other construction grant projects include:

• Morristown and Morris Township Library
• Boonton Holmes Public Library
• 18th Century Ford-Faesch House in Rockaway Township
• The Church of the Redeemer Parish House in Morristown
• The Community of St. John Baptist in Mendham Township
• The Glenburn House in Riverdale
• The Women’s Club of Morristown Headquarters (built in 1797)
• Former Baptist Church in Mount Olive
• The Whippany Railway Museum’s Steam Locomotive 4039
• The First Presbyterian Church of Boonton
• The Presbyterian Church of Morristown
• The Stanhope United Methodist Church in Netcong

Other non-construction grant projects include:

• The Presbyterian Church in Morristown
• The Museum of Early Trades and Crafts in Madison
• The Boonton Holmes Public Library
• The J. Smith Richardson History House in Mount Tabor
• St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown
• Former Baptist Church in Mount Olive
• Acorn Hall in Morristown
• The mid-19th Century Seward House in Mount Olive
• The Glenburn House in Riverdale