New-Look Old Dutch Parsonage: Architectural Research & Historic Rehabilitation

Name: New-Look Old Dutch Parsonage: Architectural Research & Historic Rehabilitation
Start: 2026-02-15T15:00:00-05:00
Location: St. John's Somerville

Schedule

Sun, 15 Feb, 2026 at 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

St. John's Somerville | Somerville, NJ

Take a new look at the Old Dutch Parsonage for the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage Association’s 2026 Washington’s Birthday Lecture. Michael Middleton, the State of New Jersey’s architectural consultant for Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Site, shares architectural research on the historic house and introduces plans for historic rehabilitation due to begin construction later this year.
Joining Li/Saltzman Architects in 2016 and Principal since 2025, Mr. Middleton is trained as an architect, preservationist, and historian with a decade of professional experience in the restoration and rehabilitation of historic buildings of varying types and scales. Mr. Middleton has distinguished himself for his technical and analytical skills and for his dedication to ensuring the best possible outcome for his projects, many of which have been the recipients of numerous awards. As a principal of the firm, he provides critical guidance as a project manager, performs intensive archival and historical research, ensures thorough documentation of existing conditions, develops appropriate restoration/rehabilitation programs and feasibility studies for historic properties, and oversees the production of design and construction documents. An avid collector of rare architecture books, Mr. Middleton draws on his knowledge of period architectural styles in his research of historic properties.
The Old Dutch Parsonage was home to ministers of the Dutch Reformed Churches of the Raritan River Valley in New Jersey including the founder and first president of Queen’s College, today Rutgers, the State University. Two men from the Old Dutch Parsonage, Frederick Frelinghuysen and Rev. Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, were delegates from Somerset County to the Provincial Congress of New Jersey 250 years ago, declaring New Jersey independent of Great Britain and adopting New Jersey’s first Constitution on July 2, 1776. Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Site preserves the historic house and interprets eighteenth-century New Jersey’s religious and national diversity, New Jersey’s early leadership in American higher education and the Dutch and African Dutch heritage of New Jersey.
Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites are supported by the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage Association, Proud Partner of Revolution NJ.
🧱 The Revitalization of Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites is underway “Down the Brook” for Revolution NJ. The historic rehabilitation of Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage is supported in part by Semiquincentennial Grants from the Historic Preservation Fund administered by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
⭐ Revolution NJ is New Jersey’s official observance of the 250th anniversaries of New Jersey’s first Constitution July 2, 2026 and the American Revolution in New Jersey from 2024 – 2033.