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10 Madison Avenue, Montclair

This property is # 0713 – 930 in the New Jersey Cultural and Environmental Services Historic Sites Inventory, prepared by Mrs. Eleanor Price of Preservation Montclair. The report speaks of a 1910 structure and an original structure attributed to the Farmer family, who brought the fourteen acre Baldwin Farm that extended from Orange Road to Glen Ridge. Although the Farmer’s manor house is said to be at the site of the Immaculate Conception playing field, it seems that the “original structure” of 10 Madison Avenue dates back to the 1870 ‘s Farmer Estate and even the earlier Baldwin Farm, due to it’s main volumetric features (see the early nineteenth century Anna Crane House, now Caggianno Funeral Parlor) and because it is sited on the most prominent and highest place of the original 14 acre tract. Madison Avenue and the other roads were cut through by the Farmer family, who were also responsible for the first paved roads and sidewalks of Montclair as well as the covered brook that runs under 10 Madison and present on all old township maps.

In 1894, Henry Whittemore writes (History of Montclair Township, page, 262),

“This was one of the most famous apple farms of West Bloomfield, and the remains of the old cider mill which was more than one hundred years had ground the product of the orchard into the choicest cider and often distilled into “applejack”, a conspicuous feature of the place when it was passed into the possession of Mr. Farmer. Not a trace of the early industry is now left. A beautiful lawn with handsome shade trees now covers the spot…. Mr. Farmer utilized the old homestead foundation and some of the framework of the homestead, but no part of it would be recognized in the beautiful modern villa that attracts the passer – by, nestled behind the beautiful shade trees and weeping willows which were planted by him. The rushing brook, which in the spring time swept everything before it, destroying roads and the neighbor’ fences, now meanders along under the roadway and through the homestead lot, restricted in the course by the art of man, but ever flowing onward.”

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