Municipal Building – Saddle River NJ

Description

Saddle River’s Municipal Building / Borough Hall was constructed with the assistance of Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA provided a $26,181 grant for the project, whose total cost was $59,256. Construction occurred between Jan. and Dec. 1937. PWA Docket No. NJ 1192-D.

Short and Stanley-Brown:
“The first floor of the project contains an entrance foyer, the mayor’s office, council room, offices for the assessor and collector, and an auditorium seating 225 people. The second floor contains a balcony to the auditorium, seating 125, and a library. In the basement are a fire-apparatus room, firemen’s recreation room, police and recorders’ room, detention room, and community kitchen.

The building is of fireproof construction with reinforced concrete floors, steel trusses, and gypsum plank roof. This building, the old Dutch Reformed Church, and the school-house in the immediate vicinity, form a community center. The exterior walls are native brownstone on the front portion of the building. The trim is wood and the roof is slate.

The dimensions are 69 by 84 feet. The completion date was December 15, 1937, and the total project cost $59,256.”