Property of the Week: $2.75 Million Short Hills Mansion

Check out the photos of this 9,000 square-foot mansion of luxury in Short Hills

Location: 301 White Oak Ridge Road, Short Hills Price: $2,750,000 Bedrooms: 7 Baths: 6 Full and 2 half Description: Built in 2008, this grand custom home is simply magnificent with over 9,000 square feet of luxury.  Resting on almost an acre of gorgeous property in the Hartshorn School area, the back yard fence has a gate that leads to a wonderful cul-de-sac street. Architecturally unique, attention to detail is evident from the moment this exquisite stone and shingle home comes into view.  Reminiscent of a grand country estate, anticipation builds as you enter the covered front portico and cross the double-door threshold into a dramatic two-story marble foyer. Featuring a sweeping staircase, hexagonal ceiling and broad entries to the …

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Historically Speaking

Before There Was A Mall

A recent addition to the collection of the Millburn-Short Hills Historical Society supplements a very small bit of information about life in the 1900s B.M (Before the Mall at Short Hills).

While going through a 1939 scrapbook that belonged to a young NJ woman (not from Millburn), who chronicled her activities while in college, a page of rare Short Hills memoriabilia was uncovered. The items of interest that were pasted into the scrapbook were from the Short Hills nightclub known as The Brook and they add to the very small store of information about the restaurant, which was completely destroyed by fire in 1947. William C. Wallace built the original mansion (seen here), allegedly in the early 1900s, although a definitive date is not available. It was built on family-owned land that is now the site of the Mall at Short Hills, the Office Center at Short Hills, Canoe Brook Country Club, and the poets' section of Short Hills. By …

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