Normandy Park
John Dodd Canfield (1845-1910), president of the Morristown Land and
Improvement Company, designed and developed Normandy Park beginning in
1890. The original character of the neighborhood, where houses on large
lots were set 200 feet back from a tree-lined boulevard illuminated by
gaslights, can still be seen.
The development attracted affluent people
who preferred a neighborhood environment to the isolation of a large
estate. Residents included movie magazine and director Eugene V.
Brewster, homeopathic medicine magnate Frederick Humphreys, and
suffragist Alison Low Turnbull Hopkins.