Somerville Borough Hall

This castellated Gothic residence, once the home of Daniel Robert, was constructed in 1888 as a careful copy of a celebrated design by architect Alexander Jackson Davis. It was the second building on this site, replacing an earlier residence in a similar style built in the early 1840s for Albert Camman. After Camman’s death in 1866, Eugene Doughty purchased the home, and later his son Joshua sold the property to Daniel Robert. Following Mrs. Robert’s death in 1923, the estate was sold to the Somerville Lodge of Elks, whose added ballroom now houses the Borough Library. The Borough of Somerville acquired the property in 1958, and although fires in 1967 and again in 1980 required extensive renovations, much of the elaborate original interior remains intact.

Somerville, New Jersey · United States