Bergen County Cultural & Historical Affairs - Resources Available

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Info I added is high-lighted - D. Powell, Bergen County Historical Society

County of Bergen Resource Center for Research:
The Division serves as a resource center for county historical and preservation research and education. County Archives are maintained and updated; files and historical publications are kept for county municipalities; and the Division's surveys are maintained, updated and made available to the public. Some publications are for reference only while others are for sale. Please call the Division's history line for a current price list.

Heritage Newsletter:
The Heritage Newsletter carries information on historic and preservation activities, museum exhibits, and information on grants and conferences. The newsletter's events calendar is the only county-wide listing of history events. This free newsletter is published three times annually.

Bergen County New Jersey: History and Heritage: (For Sale)
A seven-volume set of monographs, the publication is a survey of our county from pre-history to 1983. Soft and hard cover sets are available. Call for purchase information. This is available at a number of town libraries, some towns have it as a circulating copy.

The Architecture of Bergen County New Jersey: (Resource)
Published by Rutgers University Press, and written and edited by past and current DCHA staff, the volume provides an architectural history of the county from the colonial period to the twentieth century. Available from Rutgers University Press of at any major book stores. This is available at a number of town libraries.


Bicentennial Revolutionary War Map: (For Sale)
This attractive map, printed in color on ivory parchment, was produced in celebration of the American Bicentennial.

An Open Door to History: (For Sale)
This booklet, a guide to historic sites in Bergen County, is designed to familiarize residents and visitors with our history and assist them in utilizing our historic sites and museums. This is available at a number of town libraries.

Bergen County Historic Sites Survey: (Resource)
Completed in 1985 and currently being updated town by town, the HSS identified Historic properties in every municipality, recording over 8,0000 historic sites. An invaluable resource for history and preservation organizations, it has been critical in enabling the adoption of historic preservation ordinances and in establishing preservation commissions. Each municipal library has a copy of the municipality's spiral bound survey volume. All volumes are available at the Division, by appointment only. This is available at a number of town libraries, largely as a reference book.
http://www2.bccls.org/

Bergen County Stone House Survey: (Resource)
Initiated in 1978, the SHS resulted in the listing of 208 buildings on the State and National Registers in 1980. The survey is in notebook form. I couldn't find this in the town libraries at all.  

Bergen County Cemetery Inventory: (Resource)
Completed in 1992, the inventory supplements the Historic Sites Survey. The spiral bound volume is available in the reference section of local libraries or at the Division, by appointment only. This is available at a number of town libraries, only as a reference book.

To find these books/documents at a Bergen County public library:
Bergen County Library System
http://www2.bccls.org/

Some are available for free on Google Books
http://books.google.com/

For Sale by:
Division of Cultural & Historic Affairs
One Bergen County Plaza, 4th Floor
Hackensack, NJ 07601-7076

(201) 336-7274 Main Line
(201) 336-7283 TTY
(201) 336-7268 Arts
(201) 336-7267 History
(201) 336-7252 Preservation
(201) 336-7262 FAX
http://www.co.bergen.nj.us/Parks/Cultural%20and%20Historic/Historical%20Programs.htm


Historic Restoration

Tim Adriance
86 East Main Street
Bergenfield, NJ 07621
201-384-9044
tnadriance@verizon.net

Frank W. Hawkins
Nostalgic Sign Art - Sign Painter
Bellows Falls, VT
802-463-8176


From Robin Brown (see info below):
While the County of Bergen does not recommend any professionals or craftspersons and advises you to investigate the experience and work of any person you hire to do work on a historic building, the following are among those who have worked on early stone buildings:

Structural engineering firms

James B. Huffman, P.E.
Consulting Professional Engineer
762 Village Road West
Princeton Junction, NJ  08550
609-275-5846
jbhuffman2@comcast.net

Keast & Hood Co.
601 Walnut St.,  Suite 450W
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215-625-0099
mail@keasthood.com <mailto:mail@keasthood.com>
www.keasthood.com

Robert Silman Associates, PC.
Consulting Engineers
88 University Place
New York, NY 10003-4542
212-620-7970
www.rsapc.com <http://www.rsapc.com>

Electrical and mechanical engineering
J.R. Loring & Associates, Inc.
231 Clarksville Road, Suite 4A
Princeton Junction, NJ  08550
609-716-6160
www.lorignengineers.com

Princeton Engineering Group, LLC
100A Forrestal Rd.
Princeton, NJ  08540
609-243-9286
contact@pegllc.com <mailto:contact@pegllc.com>
www.pegllc.com <http://www.pegllc.com>


Masonry restoration

Aegis Restauro, LLC
586 River Road
Belle Mead NJ  09502
(908) 359-5200

ICI, Integrated Conservation Contracting, Inc.,
Glenn Boornazian, President
205 Madison Av., Elizabeth, NJ  07201\
908-352-9099
www.icr-icc.com <http://www.icr-icc.com>.

Schtiller & Plevy, Historic Restoration
693-95 South 12th St.
Newark, NJ  07103
973-242-4600
larry@schtiller-plevy.com <mailto:large@schtiller-plevy.com>
www.schtiller-plevy.com <http://www.schtiller-plevy.com>