Normandy Park

Normandy Park is a 57-acre planned subdivision in the Convent Station section of Morris Township, laid out beginning in 1890 by John Dodd Canfield, president of the Morristown Land and Improvement Company. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 for its architecture and community planning.

The original development plan called for large lots with houses set 200 feet back from a tree-lined, gas-lit boulevard along Normandy Parkway. Much of that character survives a century later: deep front lawns, mature trees, low traffic, and a streetscape that reads more like Newport than the surrounding suburbs.

What’s in the area:

• Normandy Parkway between Columbia Turnpike and Madison Avenue, the spine of the neighborhood;
• Late-Victorian and early-twentieth-century Queen Anne, Shingle, and Tudor Revival houses;
• Walking access to Convent Station train at the south end and the Morris Museum at the north (which sits in adjacent Normandy Heights).

Quiet, very residential. The two are often used interchangeably in conversation but Normandy Park and Normandy Heights are geographically distinct neighborhoods.

Appeals to: buyers looking for the largest lots and the most architectural character inside the Morris School District; old-money locals; renovation projects looking for a historic district context.