11TH ANNUAL HIGHLANDS JURIED ART EXHIBIT

Our  mission is to protect, enhance and promote the vital water and other natural & cultural resources of the New Jersey Highlands.  The Coalition represents a diverse network of organizations — small and large, local, regional, statewide and national — and individuals. 

 We represent their common goal to protect, enhance and restore the New Jersey Highlands and to preserve the quality and quantity of drinking water both for the 850,000 people in the Highlands as well as the more than five million people in surrounding areas who depend on Highlands water. 

https://njhighlandscoalition.org/

MAXFIELD ENGINE HOUSE

The Center for the Study of Cities and Small Towns (CSST) Foundation renovated the firehouse according to a preservation study done by researchers from Penn Praxis at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. Constructed in 1893 by civic-minded Boonton citizens led by then City Council president, Esli B. Dawson, great, great grandfather of CSST board members, Ryan Dawson of Mendham and Rebecca Birch of New York City, the firehouse occupies a prominent location in the center of Boonton, NJ’s Main Street Historic District. It has served a variety of functions since the town’s fire engines became too large for its original use. 

CONTACT: Eugenie L. Birch FAICP

Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research 

Department of City and Regional Planning

Dean, Graduate Studies

Stuart Weitzman School of Design

Chair, Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning

co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research 

University of Pennsylvania

210 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Tel:  215 898 8330  Cell: 917 412 7911

Twitter: @DrGenie_Birch