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NAME: Squier-Turnin
House COMMON
NAME: Turnin LOCATION: 24 Morristown Road BLOCK/LOT: . VILLAGE: Gillette USGS
QUAD: Chatham OWNER: UTM
REFS: Zone/Northing/Easting
CONSTRUCTION
DATE: Second half 19th
century SOURCE OF
DATE: Documentation,
visual ARCHITECT: . BUILDER: STYLE: Vernacular
Victorian FORM / PLAN
TYPE: Five-bay center
hall NUMBER OF
STORIES: 2 1/2 FOUNDATION: Cemented EXTERIOR WALL
FABRIC: Clapboard FENESTRATION: 2/2 sash ROOF: Gable with centered cross
gable CHIMNEY(S): Two interior brick ADDITIONAL
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Double height bay window on
facade with simple bracketed cornice. Facade porch
with stickwork supports, matching stickwork in
gable. Double front doors with large lights,
transom above. Shed addition to west gable end of
house.
Woodland behind house; surrounded by modern subdivision. No out buildings survive. The house faces south.
SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT
SIGNIFICANCE & HISTORICAL INFORMATION This house is on land originally plotted as lot #64 of the Elizabethtown purchase. Kennedy Vance was the first to have lived on the property, purchased from Joseph Frazee. Through Vance's daughter, Nancy Vance Squier, the property passed to the Squier family who built the present house. An earlier house on the property was demolished. The previous owner, Mrs. Turnin, had a prosperous chicken farm and vineyards on the site.
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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