"Darlington"

 residence, country house, Tudor (architecture)

"Darlington" — the 75 room, 3 story country estate of George Crocker has been recognized as the most architecturally outstanding early-20th Century estate house in Bergen County and one of New Jersey’s truly notable mansions. The mansion designed c. 1902 by James Brite (of the firm of Brite & Bacon). It was patterned after the English castle of Bramshill in Hampshire.

Crocker died in 1909 and the estate passed to Emerson McMillin, who prospered in the fast growing gas light business in Ohio. McMillin had large holdings in gas properties and securities and constructed a tunnel under the East River for the East River Gas Company. McMillin was a member of the board of the American Museum of Natural History and gave advice and contributed to many of Commodore Perry’s expeditions. He supported President Wilson’s policies after World War I, including promotion of the League of Nations and the World Court. Crocker Mansion was the site of many meetings of the World Court League. He resided in the mansion until his death in 1922 at the age of 78.

The property thereafter evolved to the Catholic Diocese of Newark and was used as the location of the venerable institution of the Immaculate Conception Seminary until 1986, when it was sold to the present owner. The Crocker Mansion was entered on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places in 1995 and on the National Register in 1997.

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