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HISTORIC
NAME: Cauldwell-Parrot-Cornish
Farm COMMON
NAME: Cornish
Farm LOCATION: 275 Mountain
Avenue BLOCK/LOT: . VILLAGE: Gillette USGS
QUAD: Chatham OWNER: UTM
REFS: Zone/Northing/Easting
CONSTRUCTION
DATE: 1750's and later SOURCE OF
DATE: Documentation ARCHITECT: . BUILDER: STYLE: Modified East Jersey
cottage FORM / PLAN
TYPE: NUMBER OF
STORIES: 2 1/2 FOUNDATION: Fieldstone EXTERIOR WALL
FABRIC: Shingle siding FENESTRATION: 6/6 sash, paired and
tripled ROOF: Gable CHIMNEY(S): Two brick end
chimneys ADDITIONAL
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Early house extensively
modified with bungalow era additions including
enclosed front porch, grouped windows, and
shed-roofed addition to rear.
The house faces south on a low hill. Low shed and three-car garage, foundations of barn and other out buildings visible. SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT
Across Mountain Avenue is a new subdivision.
James Cauldwell emigrated from Ireland and settled on lot #30 of the Elizabethtown lots. His property included this farmsite. Cauldwell began the house, which was later owned by the parrot family. In 1856 the farm was sold to Robert Cornish of New York. Members of the Cornish family still reside here.
PHYSICAL
CONDITION OF STRUCTURES: EXCELLENT GOOD FAIR POOR REGISTER
ELIGIBILITY: YES POSSIBLE NO PART OF DISTRICT THREATS TO
SITE: ROADS DEVELOPMENT ZONING DETERIORATION X NO THREAT OTHER .. .. COMMENTS: REFERENCES: Passaic Township History,
page 14. RECORDED
BY: Janet W. Foster DATE: March-July 1986 ORGANIZATION: Acroterion . . UPDATED ENTRY
BY: L. Fast / W. O.
Watts DATE: June 1999 ORGANIZATION: Long Hill Township Historic
Preservation Advisory Committee . .
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