Parsippany's Mount Tabor Historic District, Other Morris Sites Awarded Historic Preservation Grants

The Mount Tabor Historical Society is among 24 nearby sites that will benefit from non-construction grants awarded by the Morris County Preservation Trust Fund.

Twenty four historic sites in 15 Morris County towns were selected to receive funding for construction and non-construction preservation projects. The Morris County Freeholders approved $2.57 million to help preserve the sites. At the sites, 29 projects will be completed.

Wharton received the largest construction grant, receiving $286,450 for restorations to the Morris Canal Incline Lock 2 East. The lock and surrounding buildings, including the Tender's House, are part of the Morris Canal Historic District. Restorations will include bringing the lock's walls up to historic elevation and fabricating wood lock gates.

The second and third largest grants were awarded to Mountain Lakes ($261,000) for the replacement of the roof on the borough’s first school, the Lake Drive School, built in 1914, and to Roxbury ($48,560) for the completion of construction documents for the first and second phases of refurbishing the King Homestead Museum, a former store and post office built in 1881.

The Mount Tabor Historical Society was awarded a non-construction grant to complete a master plan for the Mount Tabor Historic District in Parsippany and the First Presbyterian Church of Succasunna was awarded a non-construction grant to complete nomination forms for the National Register of Historic Places for the Succasunna Historic District.

Other construction grant projects include:

Morristown and Morris Township Library
Boonton Holmes Public Library
18th Century Ford-Faesch House in Rockaway Township
The Church of the Redeemer Parish House in Morristown
The Community of St. John Baptist in Mendham Township
The Glenburn House in Riverdale
The Women’s Club of Morristown Headquarters (built in 1797)
Former Baptist Church in Mount Olive
The Whippany Railway Museum’s Steam Locomotive 4039
The First Presbyterian Church of Boonton
The Presbyterian Church of Morristown
The Stanhope United Methodist Church in Netcong