Green Brook Park

Cedar Brook Park
	Green Brook Park
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	New Jersey Register of Historic Places
	Playground and flowering trees
Location	All parkland from Clinton Ave. to W of West End Ave., and Jct of Lawrence and Parkview Ave., Fisk and Townsend Pls.; Plainfield, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°36′30″N 74°26′43″W / 40.60833°N 74.44528°W
Area	100 acres (40 ha)
Architect	Olmsted Brothers
Architectural style	Late 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements, City Beautiful Movement
NRHP reference No.	04000437
NJRHP No.	3551
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	May 14, 2004
Designated NJRHP	March 8, 2004

Green Brook Park is a 100-acre (40 ha) county park along the Green Brook, a tributary of the Raritan River, in the city of Plainfield in Union County, New Jersey. Designed by the Olmsted Brothers, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 2004, for its significance in landscape architecture. It extends into the borough of North Plainfield in Somerset County.^[3]

History and description

The Union County Park Commission was established in 1921 and hired the Olmsted Brothers, formed by the sons of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, to design a county park system, including this one along the Green Brook. The initial park development from Clinton Avenue to West End Avenue started in 1922. Along Park Drive, the area is pastoral, with a forested area north of the Green Brook. The park was expanded east of West End Avenue during the 1930s.^[3]

References

^ "National Register Information System – (#04000437)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Union County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. September 29, 2022. p. 9.
^ ^a ^b Stefel, April M. (October 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Green Brook Park". National Park Service. With accompanying 18 photos from 1999 and 2003

External links

Media related to Green Brook Park at Wikimedia Commons
"Green Brook Park" (PDF). County of Union Department of Parks. Park map

[nris-1] "National Register Information System – (#04000437)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.

[NJRHP-2] "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Union County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. September 29, 2022. p. 9.

[nrhpdoc-3] Stefel, April M. (October 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Green Brook Park". National Park Service. With accompanying 18 photos from 1999 and 2003

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v t e Union County Park System
Parks	Black Brook Park Briant Park Cedar Brook Park Echo Lake Park Elizabeth River Parkway Esposito Park Green Brook Park Hidden Valley Park Kawameeh Park Lenape Park Madison Avenue Park Mattano Park McConnell Park Meisel Avenue Park Milton Lake Park Nomahegan Park Oak Ridge Park Passaic River Parkway Phil Rizzuto Park Ponderosa Farm Park Rahway River Parkway Sperry Park Stanley Avenue Park Snyder Avenue Park Tamaques Park Tëmike Park Unami Park Warinanco Park Wheeler Park
Reservations	Watchung Reservation Ash Brook Reservation
Other facilities	Ash Brook Golf Course Galloping Hill Golf Course Houdaille Quarry Union County Park Commission Administration Buildings Robinson's Branch Reservoir Planned rail trails

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Union County, New Jersey
Landmarks	Baltusrol Golf Club Boxwood Hall William Livingston House
Districts	Belcher–Ogden Mansion; Benjamin Price House; and Price–Brittan House Historic District Cedar Brook Park Crescent Area Historic District Fanwood Park Historic District Feltville Historic District Green Brook Park Hillside Avenue Historic District Mid-Town Historic District North Avenue Commercial District Plainfield Civic District Stoneleigh Park Historic District Summit Downtown Historic District Van Wyck Brooks Historic District
Places of worship	All Souls Church First Congregation of the Presbyterian Church at Springfield First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth First Presbyterian Congregation of Connecticut Farms Grace Episcopal Church Saint Mary's Catholic Church Complex Scotch Plains Baptist Church, Parsonage, and Cemetery Wallace Chapel AME Zion Church
Houses	Badgley House and Site Belcher–Ogden House Caldwell Parsonage Crane-Phillips House John De Camp House Nathaniel Drake House Charles N. Fowler House Elizabeth and Gershom Frazee House Deacon Andrew Hetfield House Homestead Farm at Oak Ridge Hutchings Homestead Littel–Lord Farmstead Miller-Cory House Oswald J. Nitschke House Old Baptist Parsonage William Edgar Reeve House Sayre Homestead Seventeenth Century Clark House Nathaniel Smith House St. John's Parsonage George A. Strong House James Townley House Twin Maples Orville T. Waring House Whyman House Woodruff House
Buildings	Droescher's Mill Elizabeth Station Fanwood Station Firehouse No. 4 Merchants and Drovers Tavern Murray Hill Station Netherwood Station Plainfield Central Fire Headquarters Plainfield Masonic Temple Plainfield Station Rahway Theatre Scotch Plains School Shady Rest Golf and Country Club Stage House Inn Summit Playhouse Union County Park Commission Administration Buildings Westfield Fire Headquarters Young Women's Christian Association of Plainfield and North Plainfield
Sites	Burial Ground of the Presbyterian Church in the West Fields of Elizabethtown Evergreen Cemetery Reeves-Reed Arboretum
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Union County, New Jersey and List of National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey

History and description

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