LONG HILL TOWNSHIP HISTORIC SITES SURVEY INDIVIDUAL STRUCTURE SURVEY < PREVIOUS HISTORIC SITES INVENTORY #1430-36 NEXT >   HISTORIC NAME: Bird-Cottington House COMMON NAME: . LOCATION: 1732 Valley Road BLOCK/LOT: . VILLAGE: Millington USGS QUAD: Bernardsville OWNER: UTM REFS: Zone/Northing/Easting DESCRIPTION CONSTRUCTION DATE: Early 19th century SOURCE OF DATE: Owner ARCHITECT: . BUILDER: STYLE: Vernacular "I" house FORM / PLAN TYPE: Hall-parlor plan. Four bay facade. NUMBER OF STORIES: 2 FOUNDATION: EXTERIOR WALL FABRIC: Wooden shingles FENESTRATION: 1/1 sash ROOF: Gable roof CHIMNEY(S): End chimney ADDITIONAL ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Facade porch on turned column supports. Flat-roofed one story rear addition. PHOTO(S) (B5:20, 1986) SITING, BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION, AND RELATED STRUCTURES Email well house just west of front porch. Frame barns and chicken house to rear. SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT URBAN SUBURBAN SCATTERED BUILDING OPEN SPACE WOODLAND X RESIDENTIAL AGRICULTURAL VILLAGE INDUSTRIAL DOWNTOWN COMMERCIAL HIGHWAY COMMERCIAL OTHER SIGNIFICANCE & HISTORICAL INFORMATION The house appears on the 1868 map of Passaic as the property of J. W. Bird. In 1887 it was owned by J. W. Cottington. It is a simple, vernacular dwelling typical of unpretentious rural farmsteads. ORIGINAL USE: Residence PRESENT USE: Residence PHYSICAL CONDITION OF STRUCTURES: . EXCELLENT GOOD . FAIR . POOR REGISTER ELIGIBILITY: . YES . POSSIBLE X NO c PART OF DISTRICT THREATS TO SITE: . ROADS . DEVELOPMENT . ZONING . DETERIORATION X X NO THREAT . OTHER . .. .. COMMENTS:   REFERENCES: RECORDED BY: Janet W. Foster DATE: March-July 1986 ORGANIZATION: Acroterion . . UPDATED ENTRY BY: L. Fast DATE: March 2002 ORGANIZATION: Long Hill Township Historic Preservation Advisory Committee . . RETURN TO: INTRODUCTION RETURN TO: STREET & SITES INDEX RETURN TO: FILE NUMBER INDEX RETURN TO: MAP INDEX RETURN TO: BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER INDEX . . . . . < PREVIOUS HISTORIC SITES INVENTORY #1430-36 NEXT >