Project Address: Early Street, Morristown
Build #5-6: completed 1990; demolished 2016
Type:
- Duplex
- Rehab
- 3 bedrooms in 1 unit & 2 bedrooms in 1 unit
Families:
One family of five and one family of three. Parents were employed in the healthcare field.
Victorian duplex
The Town of Morristown donated this abandoned property. Greater Middlesex & Morris Habitat worked with Morristown’s Historic Preservation Committee to restore the home close to its original Victorian style. Over 26 years, the two families built memories of holidays, birthdays, backyard picnics, happiness and sadness in their homes.
Speedwell Redevelopment Plan – Phase Two: Modera 55 apartment complex
In June 2015, the Morristown council approved Modera 55, a six-story, 185-unit apartment complex. It was built across Prospect Street from the 268-unit Modera 44 building, which opened in December 2014 as Phase One of Morristown’s Speedwell Redevelopment Plan. In 2016, developers purchased the duplex at 12 Early Street from the homeowners for demolition during Phase Two.
Construction commenced in May 2016 on Modera 55, which opened at Prospect and Early streets in spring 2018. Twenty-six of the units – 15 percent of the total – are designated as affordable for very low-, low- and moderate-income tenants. They will be filled by a lottery, the same way the 10 percent of affordable units were filled in Modera 44. Five of these have three bedrooms. All other apartments in Phase Two have one (60 percent) or two (40 percent) bedrooms.
The exterior design of both apartment buildings pays homage to historic New England row houses. Modera 55 looks and feels like brownstones.