Jacob Vanderbeck Jr. House

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Jacob Vanderbeck Jr. House
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Vanderbeck House in 1945
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LocationBarrister Ct., Fair Lawn, New Jersey
Coordinates 40°56′46″N74°6′2″W / 40.94611°N 74.10056°W / 40.94611; -74.10056 Coordinates: 40°56′46″N74°6′2″W / 40.94611°N 74.10056°W / 40.94611; -74.10056
Area2.9 acres (1.2 ha)
ArchitectVanderbeck, Jacob
MPS Stone Houses of Bergen County TR
NRHP reference No. 83001566 [1]
NJRHP No.484 [2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJanuary 9, 1983
Designated NJRHPOctober 3, 1980

The Jacob Vanderbeck Jr. House, in Fair Lawn, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, is a typical historic house of the American colonial architecture style called Dutch Colonial on Dunkerhook Road, adjacent to the Saddle River County Park. It sits on a bluff above the Saddle River (Passaic River) and is approached from Dunkerhook Road via Barrister Court, a condominium development it is now part of. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 9, 1983.

Jacob Vanderbeck Sr., who also built the neighboring Naugle House, built the original section of the house in 1754; it was a small, wooden-framed home on to which a larger wing, to the west, featuring coursed ashlar sandstone walls and one and a half stories under a gambrel roof, was added in the 1780s. Shortly after the National Park Service Heritage Documentation Programs Historic American Buildings Survey took photographs and made architectural drawings of the house in 1938, the house's owners, the Walter Squires, replaced the original east wing of the house with an architecturally compatible addition with sandstone blocks and a gambrel roof that updated the house and significantly increased the home's size. The interior of the house retains many of its original features.

The house, undergoing renovation and enlargement in 2019 FairLawnNJ JacobVanderbeckJrHouse.jpg
The house, undergoing renovation and enlargement in 2019

After the death of its most recent owner, Henrietta Vander Platt, developers showed interest in demolishing the house, removing all of the trees, and placing on the lot an assisted living facility. A group of devoted preservationists and citizens engaged in an effort to save the Vanderbeck House, bolstered by its listing as one of 2013's "Ten Most Endangered" historic properties by the Trenton-based historic preservation organization Preservation New Jersey. [3]

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References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Bergen County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. July 7, 2009. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 30, 2008. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-10-12. Retrieved 2020-01-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)