The Olcott Avenue Historic District encompasses all of Olcott Avenue and portions of two intersecting streets (Highview and Childsworth Avenues) where residential development coincided with Olcott Avenue, but excludes adjacent areas where residential development is distinct in conception and architecture. Location and Setting Geography and TopographyĪpproximately 700 feet in width, the Olcott Avenue Historic District extends in length approximately four tenths of a mile, sloping upward from the southwest to northeast along a gentle southern flank of the New Jersey Highlands region. Located just north of the downtown commercial district, the Olcott Avenue Historic District also includes three prominent community institutions, the Bernardsville Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage, and the original Bernards High School, which are characterized by their distinctive architecture, and the former headquarters of the Visiting Nurse Association.
The streets in the district, Olcott, Childsworth and Highview Avenues, are characterized by lots of moderate size with regular setbacks with moderate to substantial dwellings constructed in a variety of late 19th and early 20th century architectural styles, several of which are particularly noteworthy examples. The Olcott Avenue neighborhood in the Borough of Bernardsville, located in northeast Somerset County, was developed at the turn of the 20th century as a carefully laid out middle class residential neighborhood. Portions of the content on this web page were adapted from a copy of the original nomination document. The Olcott Avenue Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
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