Upper Gregory Intensive-Level Survey Volume I - Survey Report
2019. Upper Gregory Intensive-Level Survey Volume I - Survey Report. New Jersey Historic Preservation Office; Township of West Orange; Township of West Orange Historic Preservation Commission; Easton Architects
Executive Summary: "The Township of West Orange Historic Preservation Commission retained Easton Architects to undertake an intensive-level architectural survey of the Upper Gregory neighborhood....The goals of the Upper Gregory Intensive-Level Survey are to record the architectural heritage of the neighborhood and to provide the Township and its residents with a tool to inform future planning decisions. Upper Gregory is a residential neighborhood that contains the Rock Spring Golf Club and two public schools, located along the southern border of the Township of West Orange. The neighborhood is characterized by steep topography and small subdivisions of single-family residences. Upper Gregory was sparsely populated with large private estates through the early twentieth century. A cable car and trolley line once traversed Upper Gregory to reach recreational attractions at the top of the mountain. The population growth of West Orange, the rise of personal automobiles, and subdivision of the land by numerous real estate developers led to the rapid expansion of the neighborhood in the 1920s through 1940s. A wide variety of architectural styles are present in Upper Gregory today as portions of the neighborhood were built out through the late twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries. The intensive-level survey included an evaluation of eligibility for listing in the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places. Buildings were evaluated for individual eligibility and as contributors to potential historic districts. Upper Gregory has numerous concentrations of Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival, and Dutch Colonial Revival style residences , indicative of its primary era of construction. A potential historic district was identified for its association with local development patterns and as an embodiment of vernacular suburban from the 1920s through the 1940s." Project funding was provided in part by a Historic Preservation Fund grant to the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office administered by the State, Tribal, Local Plans and Grants division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior (grant number P18AF00117).
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Date of Issue
- 2019-09-30
- Publisher
- New Jersey Historic Preservation Office; Township of West Orange; Township of West Orange Historic Preservation Commission; Easton Architects
- Units
- HPF
- Keywords
- Certified Local Governments, Historic Resource Surveys (Neighborhood)