The historic Andrew and Hannah Drake Farmstead is three-acre site in the larger 950-acre Watershed Institute Reserve. The farmstead is significant for its association with Dr. Muriel Gardiner Buttinger, a noted author and psychologist who lived at the farm from 1940 until 1965. It is also significant because of its well-preserved collection of agricultural buildings. The Large Barn, constructed between 1830 and 1850, is a prominent and unusually decorative example of traditional English barns in New Jersey.   

The 2021 Trust grant will help fund stabilization and repair of the “Drake Barn” which is a contiguous structure made up of the Wagon house, Large Barn, and Dairy Barn. The 2018 Trust grant helped fund the preparation of a preservation plan and concept design drawings for potential adaptive reuse of the site.  

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