Historic Sites

   The Somerset County Court House Green is composed of three main structures: the Court House, the Lord Memorial Fountain and the First Dutch Reformed Church.  Constructed in 1909, the Somerset County Court House is a fine example of Beaux-Arts Classicism. The gilded dome is surmounted by a figure of Justice.    

   The Somerset County Court House Green is composed of three main structures: the Court House, the Lord Memorial Fountain and the First Dutch Reformed Church.  The church is a free interpretation of an English Gothic church . Constructed in 1897, it was designed by William Appleton Potter, renowned for his architecture on the Princeton University campus. The church is

   The Lord Memorial Fountain, erected in 1910, was designed by John Russell Pope, one of America’s last great neo-classical architects. He also designed the Jefferson Memorial, and the National Gallery of Art. The fountain was sculpted by John Boyde and Thomas C. Post Trolearen.

   The Somerville Fire Museum originally housed the West End Hose Company. The two-story brick structure was constructed in 1888, in the Romanesque Revival style, following a public outcry for fire protection services at the west end of town. The building has undergone very few alterations and includes the original colored glass window on the second floor, one-over-one sash windows

The South Branch School House, constructed in 1873, is a well-preserved example of the one-room vernacular Victorian-Italianate schoolhouses that once abounded in New Jersey.  Almost all of its original exterior and interior features have been preserved, including vertical beaded tongue-and-groove wainscoting on all four interior walls. The Township has restored the original bell tower, which had been removed. The school

The Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum was born out of decades’ worth of research conducted by two of its advisory board members, Beverly Mills and Elaine Buck. Both women serve on the Stoutsburg Cemetery Association board and their research began as a quest to establish Stoutsburg as the official burial place for Private William Stives, a Revolutionary War veteran and