No. 15  June 2002
The authoritative source on
early churches in New Jersey

About this site
We've created a database and photographic inventory on more than half the 18th & 19th century churches in the state and add to it each month. We welcome and solicit all contributions and suggestions from our visitors.

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Respond to readers' queries
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Glossary
List of churches, by county
Photographic notes
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Vintage photographs

Although the website was created to make available contemporary photographs, there are too many interesting churches that have disappeared—except on old albumen prints or in engravings made for pre-1900 books and magazines. We solicit such images from our readers and will reproduce at least one every month, along with such historical information as we can find about these vanished churches, and those that have survived.
     If you would like to see an image in your possession on this site, we are pleased to receive your own scans, or you may send us the photograph and we will create a high resolution scan and return the image to you with a copy of the scan and out thanks! If you have a number of such vintage images, we may be able to bring our scanner to your site.

St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
East Millstone, Somerset County

 St. Joseph's was organized in 1864 and this frame building was erected in the following year. The building was enlarged in 1870, and now it is clad in aluminum siding—and the nifty belfry is gone. The photograph was made, I believe, shortly after the turn of the century.

 

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