912 Deal Road, Wayside, NJ
Middlebrook Farm
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This is the corner of Route 35 and Deal Road, looking west in the 1950's
Today, it is Middlebrook Shopping Center |
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| The same intersection today |
The Middlebrook Farm that included several houses and barns ran along Deal Road from the present Route 18 to Route 35, and it included the land that is now the Middlebrook apartments and homes as well as the Middlebrook Shopping Center. The original farmhouse on Oak Knoll Road was built in the 1700s and rebuilt after a fire in the 1970s. Prize Jersey cows were bred on the farm from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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| The Deal Road Farmhouse |
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| Where the entrance to the Deal Road Farmhouse is today. |
This house on Roller Road was part of the original Middlebrook Farm. About 1940, it was built by a Wall Streeter and gentleman farmer, Laurence Leeds, around an old farmhouse. Leeds used an architect from the Williamsburg restoration to design the house.
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| The Leeds House today |
