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Green Brook Park

Coordinates: 40°36′30″N 74°26′43″W / 40.60833°N 74.44528°W / 40.60833; -74.44528 (Cedar Brook Park)
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Green Brook Park
Playground and flowering trees
Green Brook Park is located in Union County, New Jersey
Green Brook Park
Green Brook Park is located in Somerset County, New Jersey
Green Brook Park
Green Brook Park is located in New Jersey
Green Brook Park
Green Brook Park is located in the United States
Green Brook Park
LocationAll parkland from Clinton Ave. to W of West End Ave., and Jct of Lawrence and Parkview Ave., Fisk and Townsend Pls.
Plainfield, New Jersey
Coordinates40°36′30″N 74°26′43″W / 40.60833°N 74.44528°W / 40.60833; -74.44528 (Cedar Brook Park)
Area100 acres (40 ha)
ArchitectOlmsted Brothers
Architectural styleLate 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements, City Beautiful Movement
NRHP reference No.04000437[1]
NJRHP No.3551[2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 14, 2004
Designated NJRHPMarch 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

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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]

Clinton Avenue entrance

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System – (#04000437)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  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.
  3. ^ 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
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