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Williamstown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place [9] (CDP) located in Monroe Township in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
Free Library and Reading Room–Williamstown Memorial Library is located in the Williamstown section of Monroe Township, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. The library was built in 1878 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 1987.
It is also home to the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, the largest regional conservation center in the country. The Clark Center includes more than 11,000 square feet of gallery space for special exhibitions; new dining, retail, and family spaces; and an all-glass Museum Pavilion that creates a new entrance to the original Museum Building.
An associated cottage, probably intended for a caretaker, was also planned but never built. The funding for the chapel came from Sherman H. Banks of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, whose mother was from the Sherman family that was one of Williamstown's oldest. The chapel is located near the cemetery entrance, not far from Main Street.
Monroe Township is a township in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 37,117, [8] [9] its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 988 (+2.7%) from the 36,129 recorded at the 2010 census, [17] [18] which in turn reflected an increase of 7,162 (+24.7%) from the 28,967 counted in the 2000 census. [19]
Lawrence Hall, soon to house Williams College Museum of Art, before the addition of the two wings designed by Francis R. Allen in 1890. WCMA was established in 1926 by Karl Weston, an art history professor who made it his mission to provide students with a place to experience art directly, rather than as slides or in textbooks.
Williamstown Cemetery was established in 1858 and the first burial was of Captain Lawrence Lawson, a Master Mariner. [ 1 ] In March 2010, the Fawkner Memorial Park Trust was amalgamated with 7 other Trusts and formed the Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (GMCT) which now manages the Williamstown Cemetery and 18 other sites.
In his pattern book Rural Homes of 1851, British architect Gervase Wheeler published his pattern for Henry Olmstead's then-$3,000 house "about a mile and a half" from East Hartford, Connecticut. [38] [42] Historian Renée Elizabeth Tribert argues that either Revere or Bruen undoubtedly owned a copy of the book and based it on Wheeler's design. [43]