Stillwell-Preston House
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Stillwell-Preston House, also known as Riverwind (after the off-Broadway play of 1962), is located in Saddle River
, New Jersey
. The house was built in 1800 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places
on August 29, 1986. It began as a farmhouse. When improvements were made in the 1960s, square nails, hand-made by a blacksmith, were removed from the walls. At one point, the house to the North on East Saddle River Road was once the carriage house for the estate and the house North of that was where the caretakers lived.
Martin Block, host of the "Make Believe Ballroom--so, arguably, the first disk jockey--once lived there. It was actually even larger, with a wing having been knocked down in the 50s. Once owned by a retired Navy captain, he painted most of the interior battleship gray since he had the paint and "help" available.
In the 1960s, the home was owned by Fred Pfister (who named it "Riverwind") Fred had previously owned the equally historic Fell House in nearby Allendale, New Jersey. Fred passed in July of 1969 and his wake was held in the majestic, 60 foot long living room because of his deep love of this beautiful home. His family lived there until 1972.
There are ten fireplaces and those in the bedrooms were faced with carved marble imported from Italy.
Saddle River, New Jersey
Saddle River is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 3,152. Saddle River has the second-highest per-capita income in the state...
, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
. The house was built in 1800 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
on August 29, 1986. It began as a farmhouse. When improvements were made in the 1960s, square nails, hand-made by a blacksmith, were removed from the walls. At one point, the house to the North on East Saddle River Road was once the carriage house for the estate and the house North of that was where the caretakers lived.
Martin Block, host of the "Make Believe Ballroom--so, arguably, the first disk jockey--once lived there. It was actually even larger, with a wing having been knocked down in the 50s. Once owned by a retired Navy captain, he painted most of the interior battleship gray since he had the paint and "help" available.
In the 1960s, the home was owned by Fred Pfister (who named it "Riverwind") Fred had previously owned the equally historic Fell House in nearby Allendale, New Jersey. Fred passed in July of 1969 and his wake was held in the majestic, 60 foot long living room because of his deep love of this beautiful home. His family lived there until 1972.
There are ten fireplaces and those in the bedrooms were faced with carved marble imported from Italy.