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restoration that would allow the public to appreciate the building's "most dramatic architectural features--groined vaulting, decorative stained glass and stenciling, fireplaces, handsome light fixtures and intricate woodwork" which had been hidden by architectural changes made over the intervening years since its construction a century earlier.
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The museum underwent an extensive renovation project in the 1990s, funded by a million-dollar fundraising effort, to bring the facility up to date in its century-old structure. As part of the renovation project, the museum received a $ 240,000 grant from the New Jersey Historic Trust towards interior
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The museum was founded in 1969 in the former site of the Madison Public Library to house a collection of over 8,000 tools and artifacts used in New Jersey before 1860 that had been collected by Agnes and Edgar Land. The couple started their collection on
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in the 1940s, purchasing 18th and 19th century craft items that had been used on area farms that had started to become mechanized or converted to residential developments. The couple continued their collecting after moving to
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The museum's most popular programs involve craftspeople — such as carpenters, coopers and blacksmiths — demonstrating the use of these tools in the performance of their professions.
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The museum's historic structure, the Madison Public Library and the James Building, is listed on the
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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To inspire a connection with New Jersey's history, culture, trades, and crafts.
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New Jersey Skylands webpage for the Museum of Early Trades and Crafts
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Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey
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New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places: Morris County
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Artifacts on exhibit at the museum include such items as buckets,
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National Register of Historic Places in Morris County, New Jersey
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Museum of Early Trades and Crafts is located in Morris County, New Jersey
Museum of Early Trades and Crafts is located in New Jersey
Museum of Early Trades and Crafts is located in the United States
Madison, New Jersey
40°45′35″N 74°25′01″W / 40.75960°N 74.41690°W / 40.75960; -74.41690
Charles Brigham
Willard P. Adden
80002512
Madison
Morris County
New Jersey
National Register of Historic Places
Long Island
New Jersey
Boston
Charles Brigham
Willard P. Adden
Romanesque Revival
D. Willis James
powder horns
hayforks
refrigeration
iceboxes
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
"Mission & History - Museum of Early Trades & Crafts - Madison, NJ"
New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places: Morris County

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