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NAME: Walnut
Hull COMMON
NAME: . LOCATION: 1552 Long Hill
Road BLOCK/LOT: . VILLAGE: Millington USGS
QUAD: Bernardsville OWNER: UTM
REFS:
CONSTRUCTION
DATE: 1730 and additions SOURCE OF
DATE: owner ARCHITECT: . BUILDER: STYLE: Vernacular FORM / PLAN
TYPE: Three bay side hall block and
wing NUMBER OF
STORIES: 2 1/2 FOUNDATION: Fieldstone and brick
facade EXTERIOR WALL
FABRIC: Clapboard FENESTRATION: 6/6 sash and early louvered
shutters ROOF: Gable CHIMNEY(S): Two end brick
Chimneys ADDITIONAL
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Beehive oven on the west side
and well house adjacent. Pedimented front door
enframement with leaded transom. Cornice with
modillion and star pattern. Kitchen wing is 2/3
bay, supposedly oldest part of house.
Tenant house: 19 Morris County Plan book type with clapboard and shingled gables, original front porch. Brick smoke house with shake roof east of house. Barn complex, 1 1/2 story frame and horizontal siding.
Tract house across the street. Open space and wooded area undeveloped to the rear.
This property was owned by the Cooper family in the 19th century. Daniel Cooper was an early settler in what is now Passaic/Long Hill Township. He purchased lot #2 of the Elizabethtown Associates Tract in 1732.
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: A well-preserved, although
heavily restored, farm complex. The Victorian-era
tenant house is as interesting a survivor, both
architecturally and historically, as the main
house. REFERENCES: RECORDED
BY: Janet W. Foster DATE: March-July 1986 ORGANIZATION: Acroterion . . UPDATED ENTRY
BY: L. Fast / Claire
Monroe DATE: April 2002 ORGANIZATION: Long Hill Township Historic
Preservation Advisory Committee . .
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