The Historic Village at Allaire, located in Allaire State Park, has reopened this weekend after being closed closing for several weeks due to financial troubles.
According to the museum, their operations have been “negatively impacted” for more than a year due to a combination of several factors including “rising inflation costs, unprecedented weather and limited grant funding.”
The museum, which is a popular attraction for many families from the Lakewood area, was offering visitors the option to view silverware that once belonged to James Allaire, who owned and operated an iron works company at the site in the 1830s.
Located in Howell and Wall Townships, the museum, which was founded in the 1750s, is not funded by the state and relies on private donations to survive.
The village, which has seen over 500,000 people visit annually in recent years, was abandoned for several decades until the early 1900s, when Arthur Brisbane, a newspaper magnate living in Lakewood, purchased the village for for $68,000, or about $2.2 million in today’s dollars.
After Brisbane’s death in 1936, his widow donated the property to the state of New Jersey and in 1957, the Historic Village at Allaire was formed as a nonprofit to manage the property.
Maybe get some rides in there and make it a bit more exciting
You realize it’s a historic park right? Go to the boardwalk for rides.
I agree , Allaire Village is a wonderful place ,it certainly would not be appropriate place for rides .
Learn some history, this isn’t an amusement park.
They were closed today. We were there.
Simmering doesn’t add up.
They closed for a few weeks during the only season that actually brings in revenue?
I’m going to guess that there was a personnel issue that needed some time to be worked out (think training) or some other issue that needed remediation.
There is an admission fee. There are also free tickets on the ocean county library website.
Where is it located?
Read the article or just google.
Nope, their busy time is actually the fall season. A lot less visitors in the hot summer days