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ABOUT TOWN<br />
LANDMARKS & HISTORIC SITES<br />
Summit offers residents and visitors numerous historic landmarks and sites<br />
including the following:<br />
DOWNTOWN DISTRICT — According to the “Summit Downtown” website, the district’s<br />
“unique architectural heritage” includes historic homes, buildings, structures and streetscapes<br />
dating from the mid-18th through the 21st centuries.<br />
REEVES-REED ARBORETUM — Listed on the National and State Registers of Historic Places,<br />
the Reeves-Reed Arboretum is comprised of 13.5 acres of natural landscape that includes<br />
historic and contemporary gardens, and six acres of forested woodland. Originally constructed<br />
in the late 1800s by import-export trader John Hornor Wisner, the “Wisner House” now<br />
serves as the administrative center and houses an art gallery and historic exhibits.<br />
SUMMIT DINER — Opening in 1929 and replaced in 1938 with an O’Mahony rail car-style<br />
structure, the Summit Diner is one of the oldest diners in New Jersey. Legend has it the iconic<br />
eatery served author Ernest Hemingway among its many customers over the decades.<br />
SUMMIT OPERA HOUSE — Designed and built in 1893, the Van Cise Building first served as the<br />
headquarters of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. In 1909, it was renamed the Summit Opera House, which<br />
presented lectures, moving pictures, theatrical productions and vaudeville acts until 1920 when it became a Masonic<br />
Lodge. Today, the Classical Revival building is still known as the Summit Opera House and it houses the Winberie’s<br />
Restaurant & Bar on the ground floor.<br />
THE GRAND SUMMIT — Constructed in 1929 on the site of an elegant country resort dating from the 1860s called<br />
The Blackburn House, The Grand Summit is now a boutique hotel. The vaulted beamed ceiling, chestnut woodwork,<br />
gold leaf detailing and stone fireplace found in the original lobby have all been carefully restored.<br />
In full bloom, the<br />
Reeves-Reed Arboretum<br />
(top) in Summit is<br />
a popular “green”<br />
destination. Above,<br />
Summit’s Downtown<br />
District was placed on<br />
the National Register of<br />
Historic Places in 2011.<br />
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