Department of Military and Veterans Affairs

New Jersey Historic Trust Affiliated with the Department of Community Affairs

Palisades Interstate Park: Visitor Center

Preserve New Jersey Historic Preservation Fund
Historic Site Management
Historic Site Management for Heritage Tourism
Grant Award: $50,000 (2020); $50,000 (2021)
Grant Recipient: Palisades Parks Conservancy
County: Bergen
Municipality: Fort Lee Borough

Palisades Interstate Park is a National Historic Landmark and expansive park system which extends along the West bank of the Hudson River from Northern New Jersey into Southern New York. Fort Lee Historic Park (FLHP), at the base of the George Washington Bridge, is the gateway to the Palisades Interstate Park System and represents the nucleus of the earliest portion of the Park. The Fort Lee Historic Park Visitor Center was built in 1974 in preparation for the bicentennial celebration in 1976. Built in a late modern style with four turrets, vertical wood siding, and a slate patio in front of a low-slung entranceway, the building evokes the form and cladding of a fortress. 

The 2021 Trust grant will help fund the creation of American Revolution Driving Tours.  The 2020 Trust grant helped fund a conditions assessment and National Register nomination for the Fort Lee Historic Park Visitor Center and a cultural landscape assessment for Fort Lee Historic Park, part of the larger Palisades Interstate Park system. 

For more information, visit https://www.palisadesparks.org/ 


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