26334522-f3a6-4556-af8d-d8adcc89633d < Back Architectural Style Guideline 001 | American Eclectic As many of the homes in Rumson were designed and built by successful people who were more able than most to travel the world and see the wonders of the architecture in other places, it should come as no surprise that many of the homes in Rumson are in fact American Eclectic in one way or another. The American Eclectic Style is a composite style that honors the influences of the classic styles of the past and incorporates one or more of those styles into a refined and restrained fresh interpretation. The eclectic style should not be confused with the hodgepodge designs sometimes called McMansions. These homes are sophisticated and beautiful. 002 | American Bungalow Style Emerging on the American scene between the years of 1905 and 1930, this style of home was intended to serve the need for travelers and young home owners, who sought easy-to-build, one-story structures of natural materials. First introduced by the British to India, this Bengalian home (thus the term Bungalow) was characterized by single one-story structures with low-pitched roofs, small interior compartments and copious porches for outdoor leisure. A wide variety of sub-genres became indicative of their regional expression including the California Bungalow, the Colonial Revival Bungalow, the Spanish Bungalow, and the Chicago Bungalow, to name a few. Their presence and popularity expanded quickly in the North-East United States with the introduction of easy-to-build kits, from companies such as Sears, Roebuck and Company and quickly followed by other distributing entities. The Bungalow is usually a longer than wide one story house with a moderately pitched roof with a porch on the front of the building. The original design was to provide shade before air conditioning. They were usually designed to fit on narrow lots. The porch columns are often square tapered and mounted on brick or stone piers. The front is usually symmetrical with the front door in the center. Decoration is minimal. The trim of the doors and window is usually flat with a bed molding and cap at the top. 003 | American Foursquare From the 1890’s into the 1930’s, the foursquare home was a popular building style due to its economy and utilization of space. The foursquare house was perfect for small lots and was relatively inexpensive to build. Typically, the foursquare had a basement with two and one half stories that were capped with a hip roof and a monitor dormer. A monitor dormer is a dormer where the roof pitch is the same as the main roof. The layout was usually symmetrical and box-like. They also typically had front porches. 005 | Early American Colonial The term Early American Colonial is used to describe a house that is typically on a narrow lot therefore limiting the width of its front façade. They are usually symmetrical in the front with the exception of the front door which is often offset. The floor plan is often “L” shaped with a wraparound porch on the first level. The roof is typically gabled with valleys and the pitch of the roof is typically between ten or twelve inches of rise to twelve inches of run. 006 | Federal The Federal Style is usually symmetrical, although some of the homes are narrow and the door on the first floor throws off the balance. The style is known for being refined and restrained. Elaborate decoration is shunned. Walls are usually plain and flat. The entry door however is often surrounded with an elliptical transom, sometimes with sidelights. Windows were generally the double hung sash type. Since glass was available in larger sizes, the windows featured larger divided lights with one inch wooden muntin bars. If a Palladian window was used, it was more delicate than in some other styles and would normally be found over the front entranceway. The roof system on the Federal style is one of a very low pitched or flat roof, often not even visible from the street. 007 | French Norman The French Norman Style is typified by the hipped roof system that often projects far past the walls. The homes take their cues from the typical French farmhouses. The homes are usually but not always symmetrical in plan, but the most recognizable feature is the roof system. 008 | Greek Revival This Hellenistic and more notably Jeffersonian 18th and 19th Century movements flourished in the United States as an image of Democracy, derived from the spirit of Greece. Homes of this style synthesized the detail and expression of stately public buildings. Her employment of stucco, wood, columns and pilasters, all painted or detailed to resemble the stone of her Hellenic roots all contribute to this enduring American style. 009 | Italianate Influenced by the English Picturesque and Associationist Movements, this style borrowed (or associated with), the imagery of the 16th Century Italian Renaissance as well as the indigenous freedom of the Italian Countryside. Its American proliferation found a separation from its Italian formalism, embracing its use of natural materials, low-pitched roof profiles, projecting cornice lines, small porches and opulent craftsmanship. 010 | Queen Anne The Queen Anne Style is typically asymmetrical and it distinguished from other styles by the appearance of turrets, towers, articulated walls, steep roof systems incorporating hips, gables and valleys and porches or verandas that wrap around; sometimes with attached gazebos. Queen Anne homes also featured other accents such as knee braces and brackets and some types of scroll work. Some of the more elaborate spindles and factory lathe turned posts were influenced by the architect Charles Eastlake. It can get confusing as some of these adornments were added to other style homes as the trend became very popular. (An example of this is 18 Allen St with the large turned posts and brackets on a house that is essentially a center hall colonial). 011 | Renaissance Revival The Renaissance Revival period between approximately 1840 -1890 is modeled after the palaces in Italy from the sixteenth century during the Italian Renaissance. The building appears as a symmetrical block of very orderly elements with the center entrance given more importance and weight that the flanking sides. The roof is nearly invisible in most cases as it is often of very low pitch or flat. The windows usually have different trim applications, particularly; changing pediments for each story and often including an attic story of smaller windows. 012 | Second Empire This Napoleonic French influenced style, popularized between 1855 and the mid 1880’s, displayed its characteristic Mansard Roof structures, square dome formulation and tower structures in both asymmetrical and symmetrical plan configurations. Adorned with balustrades, quoins, iron detailing, slate shingle roof materials, her elaborate and prominent configurations were the fashionable expression of the affluent in the United States. Borrowing heavily from the past, her prosperous owners, eclectically chose the best from a multitude of styles and formalized this expression into a cohesive French vocabulary. 013 | Shingle Influenced by the New England School of Architecture, the Shingle Style emerged as a truly American style in the Northeastern United States between the years of 1874 and 1910. Its use of natural materials and asymmetrical form, fostered a synthesis between the structure and her natural environment. Although this movement borrowed freely from Victorian and Queen Anne Styles, decoration and application were shunned, favoring freedom of form, asymmetric volume and personal expression of wealth, fashion and freedom. 014 | Stick The Stick Style is a distinctively American, late 19th Century style that sought to express an image of the materials used for the building’s underlying structure. These predominantly wood structures employed decorative wood trim known as “Stick Work” to reflect her structural framework. Stick Style houses were almost always asymmetrical, ornamented and defined by her wood detailing, wood patterning and steeply pitched gabled roof structures. 015 | Tudor Revival The Tudor Revival Style evolved from the early style of the Jacobean period in England. The Tudor revival is most easily recognized by the steep roofs, half-timbered walls with an infill of brick or stucco, massive chimneys, and leaded glass windows. The windows are usually casement types and the muntins are often diamond patterned. Some of the more prominent homes have stone mullions and also tracery around the windows. The style has also been interpreted in some wood frame structures that mimic the steep pitches, arches and round top doors, and occasionally the distinct “Tudor arch” (essentially an elliptical arch that tents at the center.) Side note: the arch over the lower right hand window on Joe Hemphill’s boyhood home is this type. 016 | Victorian According to author Will Jones in his book “How to Read Houses”, the Victorian Style coincided with the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) and, as in Georgian architecture, it is a style rather than a design type. There are sub-genres incorporated into the Victorian Style including Queen Anne, Gothic Revival and Italianate to name a few, but what all Victorian Style homes have in common is a break away from the rigid symmetry of the Georgian, Greek Revival, Federal and Colonial Revival buildings. Many of our Early American Style homes in Rumson have incorporated some of the decorative design elements; especially filigree, gingerbread trim along with other fretwork and ornate railing details. 017 | Shingle Style Over Richarsonian Romanesque 017 | Shingle Style - Presbyterian Church

< Back 44 RIDGE ROAD Year Built: 1904 Property Description Block: 61 Lot: 19 Year Built: 1904 Style: Early American Colonial Structure: Wood Frame Fenestration: Double Hung Comment: Rehabilitated using modern materials.

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< Back 22 GRANT AVENUE Year Built: 1904 Property Description Block: 140 Lot: 12 Year Built: 1904 Style: Early American Colonial Structure: Wood Frame Fenestration: Double Hung Comment: Rehabilitated over time with some modern and some authentic materials.

< Back 138 BINGHAM AVENUE Year Built: 1904 Property Description Block: 94 Lot: 7 Year Built: 1904 Style: Colonial with modifications and additions Structure: Wood Frame Fenestration: Double Hung Comment: Rehabilitated and expanded over time using modern materials.

< Back 99 BLACKPOINT ROAD Year Built: 1922 Property Description Block: 66 Lot: 7 Year Built: 1922 Style: Colonial Foundation: Masonry Structure: Wood Frame Fenestration: Double Hung Comment: Enclosed front porch

< Back 66A W. RIVER ROAD Year Built: 1918 Property Description Block: 1 Lot: 21 Year Built: 1918 Historic Name: Bertram and Mary Borden House Style: Tudor Revival Architect: Arthur C. Jackson Structure: Brick and Wood Frame Fenestration: Varied This structure is considered: Significant Comment: The original home is intact and maintained with authentic materials.

< Back 8 BRUCE PLACE Year Built: 1922 Property Description Block: 43 Lot: 6 Year Built: 1922 Style: Bungalow/Ranch Foundation: Block Structure: Wood Frame Fenestration: Double Hung Comment: Enclosed Front Porch

< Back 25 HOLLY STREET Year Built: 1922 Property Description Block: 67 Lot: 12 Year Built: 1922 Style: Colonial Foundation: Masonry Structure: Unknown/stucco Fenestration: Double Hung Comment: Well maintained

Rumson's focus projects and Capital Improvement Plans The Borough Projects Victory Park Come Enjoy this brand-new park! Read More West Park/Jumping Point Park Improvement Project Construction on new playground, waterfront, pedestrian, landscaping and park amenity improvements. Read More 2026 Road Improvement Program Consists of improvements to Buttonwood Lane from Rumson Road to Club Way, Broadmoor Drive from Rumson Road to the cul-de-sac and Thornton Way mid-block to Broadmoor Drive Read More Revolutionary War Memorial Visit the Memorial Today during your visit to Rumson. Read More Sewer Rehabilitation Program Cleaning, Inspecting and rehabilitating nearly 35,000 linear feet of The Borough's sanitary sewer piping Read More Borough 2024 Parks Improvement Project Rehabilitation of the Tennis and Basketball Courts Read More Meadow Ridge Park The Meadow Ridge Park Improvement Project was presented as part of the Monmouth County Parks System. Read More 2025 Road Improvement Program Consist of improvements to Bellevue Avenue from West River Road to the southern terminus at Heathcliff Road. Read More 2024 Road Improvement Program North Street, West Street and Bruce Place Read More West Park Community Resiliency Conditions are currently being monitored. Read More Shrewsbury Drive PHASE II Read More 2023 Force Main Replacement Project Grant Avenue Sanitary Sewer Pump Station Force Main Replacement under the Shrewsbury River Read More

< Back 4 E. RIVER ROAD Year Built: 1886 Property Description Block: 10 Lot: 6 Year Built: 1886 Style: Shingle Style Structure: Wood Frame Fenestration: Mixed This structure is considered: Significant - it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places Comment: Rumson Presbyterian Church is an excellent example of the Shingle Style. The church interior also is covered in cedar shingles and is very good condition. See Rumson pp 64-65 for additional information.

< Back 6 SHREWSBURY DRIVE Year Built: 1904 Property Description Block: 134 Lot: 15 Year Built: 1904 Style: Colonial Revival Structure: Wood Frame Fenestration: Double Hung Comment: Home is being raised due to flooding, but the main home is in good condition.