Department of Military and Veterans Affairs

New Jersey Historic Trust Affiliated with the Department of Community Affairs

Greenwich Historic District (Log Granary)

Preserve New Jersey Historic Preservation Fund
Historic Site Management
Grant Award: $11,750 (2022)
Grant Recipient: Cumberland County Historical Society
County: Cumberland
Municipality: Greenwich Township

Several experts in Swedish colonial architecture, including the late restoration architect G. Edwin Brumbaugh and the late Amandus Johnson of the American Swedish Historical Museum, examined the Log Granary and determined that it is of Swedish construction and probably dates to ca. 1640-1650. They further noted that the structure was probably used as a store house or granary and that was extremely significant as “probably the oldest building of its type in America.” It also appears to be the only Swedish-derived, seventeenth-century agricultural log building extant along the Delaware River. A dendrochronology report completed in 2016, however, places the date of construction at 1783. The granary is owned and operated by the Cumberland County Historical Society and is open to the public. 

The Trust grant will help fund the preparation of an Interpretive Plan for the Log Granary located within the Greenwich Historic District.   


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