2 ZBA Application

development on the value of adjoining properties is so minimal to be de minimus and that it cannot be reasonably calculated; and WHEREAS the Applicant offered the testimony of Phillip aA. Hayden, a cultural resource consultant who was recognized by the Board as an expert in that field, he testified that he inspected the current Subject Property, researched the Subject Property at many venues, including the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office, State Library and State Archives in Trenton, the Essex County Courthouse, Newark Public Library, Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and the Olmsted National Historic Site in or near Boston, and examined a host of listed materials therein, he mapped the Subject Property to determine the location of past structures, that despite noted past property owners, nothing on the Subject Property is or would qualify to be eligible for recognition under National Historic Register Standards, that the Subject Property was used only as a summer home for General McClellan for approximately two years before his death, that the Subject Property was then subsequently owned by the Delanos which family hired the Olmsteds to prepare certain landscape designs, which designs, if in fact they were the ones that were implemented, transformed the previous property, but have been left to fallow for over 70 years, and finally that of three remaining structures, which are remains of a greenhouse, a caretaker’s cottage and the foundation of the Carteret School for Boys, none possess the significance required to meet the general threshold for National Register eligibility nor do they ee