MEADOWS FOUNDATION

The Meadows Foundation was formed to save one early Dutch farmhouse. In 1976 the vacant Van Duyn-Van Wickle House was in danger of being torn down to build a strip mall. Franklin resident Dr. Bruce Hamilton, as member of the Planning Board, learned about this. A professor at Rutgers' Cook College, his field was landscape architecture and he had done some work for the Bogan family that had lived at the Van Duyn-Van Wickle House. The Bogan family had purchased the property in the early 1930s but by the early 1970s the family was gone. The house was now vacant, so Dr. Hamilton and others held some open-house weekends for people to see the house and property... Bruce Hamilton and others persuaded the Township to get involved. Consequently, we started a public subscription program to raise community funds. Within a year we had raised half the cost of the house and the Township had applied for a Green Acres grant for the other half. In 1977, The Meadows Foundation was born and we became the..

Also known as: The Meadows Foundation

Primary location: Somerset United States