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Significance of the Old Stone House

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“SAVE OUR HISTORY – SAVE OUR HOUSE”

 The Old Stone House, the House of our Founders

South Orange, New Jersey
 

The Old Stone House Team is an arm of the South Orange Historical and Preservation Society. Anyone with the commitment to Saving the Old Stone House for future generations is welcome to join and support our cause.

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219 South Orange Ave
 South Orange NJ 07079

South Orange Middle School Poem From
Amber Alston

This House Called Stone

 More than just a house called stone

Your history is etched in your bone

For hundreds of years you’ve housed families from beginning to end

But your fame still has yet to begin

Hidden, covered and turned away

Time has shuttered your glory days

Notable name have surrounded you and grounded you

Making sure your heart is beating forever more

What will happen to you in your old age?

Knocking down out of rage

Or

May it be a family’s knocking at your door?

We support the preservation and restoration of the Old Stone House in its entirety by working with the Village to attain this goal to ultimately benefit all the residents of South Orange Village and future generations by promoting the adaptive reuse of this significant historic structure and finding the best and highest use for this property rather than abandonment or demolition. We are committed to see this project through to the end. The preservation of this historic landmark is imperative. The property formerly known as 219 South Orange Avenue has been recognized on the State and National Registers of Historic Places because of its rich history. The Old Stone House merits saving-it is a living document to the history of South Orange and the region.

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 As Trustee and two-time President of the Village of South Orange, Commissioner of Assessments, head of the Safety and Order Commission, Commissioner of Drainage, Chairman of the Board of Education, and Secretary and President of the South Orange Library, Brewer spearheaded, often against significant opposition, remarkable improvements in South Orange which ranked him “was one of the pioneers” in the movement which led to the development of South Orange as a place of suburban residence. 

This building is the last remaining building associated with the life of William Brewer.

Stone House by Stone House Brook is also significant for historic archaeology for the period 1747 to 1850, as having yielded, or may be likely to yield, information for the period between circa 1747 and 1850 in South Orange, New Jersey. 

A Phase I/II archaeological survey has identified an eighteenth/nineteenth-century trash scatter covering 400 square feet adjacent to the kitchen door and a late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century trash midden of about 600 square feet located 20 feet east of the house. 

These have yielded a rich array of cultural material relating to the occupation of the site by the Pierson, Condit, and Lindsley families (ca. 1747-1850, who were prominent in the development and establishment of South Orange in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.