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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
The IONIC HOUSE (not open to public), 83 Wayne St., was built by a Dr. Barrowe early in the 19th century. Five tall Ionic columns, two stories in height, stand in front of this great, boxlike, clapboard building, which is painted a dark green. Now used as a social center for members of the adjoining St. Matthew's Church, the house has been extensively changed. High-ceilinged rooms are trimmed with mahogany; silver handles are on the massive mahogany doors. Even the gas fixtures have something more than the basic ugliness of their kind ; they are gilded figures of draped women-resembling the figureheads of sailing ships-holding torches from which the jets project. Mr. August E. Kopp, resident sexton, has one of the few remaining glazed pitchers from the kilns of the American Pottery Co., a focal pottery that won many international awards for its work.
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