Hiasvtoernics BY LORI DRAZ
New Jersey Historic Schools
It’s back-to-school time, so let’s have a class in some of New Jersey’s
historic schools. While New Jersey has a lot of them, many of the original,
one-room schoolhouses have been lost to time and demolition.
ages studied together in the ultimate small class setting. New Jersey is
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consistently ranked in the top 20 most beautiful American campuses.
We’ll start off our education in college at the gorgeous campus of
once the winter estate of millionaire George Jay Gould I, son of railroad
tycoon Jay Gould. Inspired by the stoically regal castles of England and
Scotland, Bruce Price, the famous New York architect, designed not only
the estate’s main mansion, but also many of the property’s lovely gardens
including the Italian Garden and the Sunken Garden. Designed
appears as it did when it was a residence. Its numerous spaces include
swimming pool.
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Places, and on Dec. 20 of that same year, Georgian Court was added to
One of the more unusual learning locations is the Situational
Training and Response Simulator, or STARS facility. Located on Dutch
Lane Road in Freehold, this was a former public school which is now
a high-tech training facility for law enforcement. This state-of-the-art
facility includes the VirTra Simulator, a decision-making and tactical
to a variety of situations. The comprehensive STARS facility includes a
school classroom area for active shooter incidents, a correctional hous-
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school building which was preserved for conversion into this current facility
through the efforts of Lillian Burry.
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house in Middletown, located on the Middletown Lincroft Road. The land
grade through high school. Special credit goes to the crafty teacher (there
over the property now known as the Little Red Schoolhouse. They performed
the necessary repairs, painting and restorations, and it now serves as the
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a few windows and a steeply pitched roof construction style is seen in buildings
built just before the Civil War. The schoolhouse does have an amazingly
complete collection of the items used by the students including pencils and
details even include a stool and dunce’s cap. The original school burned and
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of the student’s daily lives in the classroom. The school buses were actually
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his charges. Robes and blankets were to be provided to students to keep
The building was originally located on West
Manor Way. It was moved once to be more centrally
located to the core students. It was moved again
memory of his wife, Maud Scudder, whom he met
Georgian Court University in Lakewood
The Little Red Schoolhouse in Middletown
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