Stroll Through Historic House In West Caldwell This Weekend

CALDWELLS, NJ — The historic Crane Homestead in West Caldwell will have an open house on Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 4 p.m.

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The Zenas C. Crane Homestead was home to a prominent West Caldwell family into the 20th Century and is now the headquarters for the Historical Society of West Caldwell.

According to the town's website, the house "was built about the year 1853 on the site of an earlier structure erected in the early 1790s by Caleb Crane, but destroyed by fire in 1848. Zenas Crane, a son, was willed the original house and land, a tract of 40 acres, upon the death of his father on 1844, and it was he who rebuilt the house after the fire."

Caleb Crane "began managing the farm after his marriage in 1879. Caleb Crane was well educated and served as a deacon in the Caldwell Presbyterian Church and later was secretary of the Board of Education. He was elected the first mayor of West Caldwell in 1904 and died in 1937 at the age of 92."

The open house will be held at the site at 289 Westville Ave., West Caldwell. Contact the historical society for more information at 973-364-0155, at hscaldwell@gmail.com, or on the web here or here.

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