Fairfield House

Convent Station, near Morristown, New Jersey

Completed in 1901, for John I. Waterbury (1850-1929) and his wife Elizabeth Moller (1854-1933). Situated on the corner of Madison Avenue and Old Glen Road it sat on a 60-acre estate and was designed by the architectural duo of John Mead Howells and Newton Phelps Stokes. It took two years to build and was noted for the high standard of its masonry. It contained 18-bedrooms and 18-bathrooms and along with the likes of Florham it was one of the largest estates in Morris County....

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John Isaac Waterbury

President of the Manhattan Trust Company, of "Fairfield" Morristown, New Jersey

1850-1929

Elizabeth (Moller) Waterbury

Mrs Elizabeth F. (Moller) Waterbury

1854-1933

Waterbury, the former President of the Manhattan Trust Company lived here year-round and died here in 1929, followed by his wife four years later. They had three daughters, two of whom had married into the British gentry and lived in Europe. Their only unmarried daughter, Florence, had lived here after her mother was widowed and stayed on for a few more years before she sold the estate for development and it was demolished in 1941.