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Rutherfurd Hall is located in Allamuchy Township, Warren County, New Jersey, United States. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.〔〔http://www.njskylands.com/hs_rutherfurd_121〕 ==History== Rutherfurd Hall was the estate of husband and wife Winthrop Chanler Rutherfurd and Alice Morton Rutherfurd. After Alices' death from appendicitis Rutherfurd married his second wife Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd. Construction began in 1902, and included a mansion, gardens, boathouse, swimming beach, hydroelectric powerhouse, 9-hole golf course, and kennels. Rutherfurd Hall is one of the last extant large country estates in New Jersey constructed at the turn of the 20th century, and represents the country life movement which began in America following the Civil War, when the wealthy constructed large estates in rustic settings near major cities. Franklin Delano Roosevelt visited the estate in the 1930s to meet with Lucy Rutherfurd. In 1948, the property was donated to the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Charity, who used it as a convalescent facility for retired nuns. An additional wing was added to the mansion in 1959. The passage of the 2004 Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act, which placed the property in the highly development-restricted Preservation Area, dashed hopes by the religious order to sell the property to speculative development interests and they brought suit against the State of New Jersey. The Highlands Act was upheld in court, yet this contentious action eventually yielded to the more appropriate land use that exists today in which the historic character of the former estate and the integrity of the Highlands natural resources are maintained under the current ownership and the adaptive reuse of the property.〔"Landscape History Report, Rutherfurd Hall, Warren County, Allamuchy, NJ" p.21. SED Design. November 2012〕 The property was sold to the State of New Jersey and the Allamuchy Township School District in 2007.〔 In 2013, the State of New Jersey awarded $50,000 to the school district for a preservation project at Rutherfurd Hall. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rutherfurd Hall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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