Mrs. J. Amory Haskell, Middletown, NJ, and New York, NY, Marlpit Hall Restoration and Operation, 1933–1952

In 1935 and 1936, Mrs. Haskell restored Marlpit Hall in Middletown, Monmouth County. Netter supervised the work for Mrs. Haskell, who presented the furnished historic house museum to the Monmouth County Historical Association as a finished project. The documents contained in this folder therefore constitute the only materials available today on the first restoration of Monmouth County’s first historic house opened to the public. They were reproduced and transcribed in a 1996 publication titled The First Restoration of Marlpit Hall in Middletown, New Jersey: Extracts from the Papers of Edna M. Netter that was compiled for the Monmouth County Historical Association. That organization was then preparing for a second major restoration.

Items include letters to and from Mrs. Haskell documenting the restoration process in detail. Other correspondents include Anna R. Aronson (resident caretaker), Henry C. Beck (New Jersey historian), Mrs. Frank N. Bass (Taylor family genealogist), William H. Rauchfuss (Dey Mansion curator), and a Miss Boicourt from The Magazine Antiques. The folder also contains some bills for labor and materials, although most of those were forwarded to Mrs. Haskell for payment.

This folder was created in 1995. It pulled documents from other folders in the Netter correspondence files, with notations written on each item as to where it was originally found in the collection.