Great Architecture in Madison, NJ - II
By Norma Jaeger Hopcraft
The Dodges (i.e., Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation) had their estate in Madison, NJ, the town I haunted for five years as a reporter for a local weekly. They built the Hartley Dodge Memorial Building (town hall) as a memorial to their son after he was killed in a car accident. I imagine he was quite the too-rich, spoiled rake, and I don't miss him. But his mother did.I sat through many meetings, on hard-bottomed chairs, within these hallowed halls. I always hoped that, as a reporter watching their proceedings, I helped to protect American freedoms by keeping public officials honest.
Today, newspapers' staffs are so diminished, many of these meetings no longer get covered. Buy a newspaper today and help support the American Way.
Hartley Dodge Memorial.
The Madison train station. Financiers from New York City (25 miles due east) built summer mansions in Madison and funded a rail station that befit their station :-)
Another example of successful 19th century commercial architecture in downtown.
Look at this brick work! Does anybody know how to do this anymore?
BTW, it was Shakespeare's 450th birthday yesterday, on April 23. To celebrate, why not pick up on a few of his best lines, to be used as needed: http://bit.ly/1jFVmhl
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