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Montclair Kimberley Academy

1974 establishments in New JerseyEducational institutions established in 1974Middle States Commission on Secondary SchoolsMontclair, New JerseyNew Jersey Association of Independent Schools
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Montclair Kimberley Academy
Montclair Kimberley Academy

Montclair Kimberley Academy (MKA) is a co-educational private school for students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade located in Montclair in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. One of New Jersey's largest independent day schools, Montclair Kimberley Academy celebrated the 125th anniversary of the establishment of its earliest component school in 2012. The current school, established in 1974, is the result of the merger of three separate schools: Montclair Academy, a boys' school founded in 1887; The Kimberley School, a girls' school founded in 1906; and Brookside, a coed school founded in 1925.As of the 2019–20 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,012 students (plus 36 in PreK) and 168.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 6:1. The school's student body was 57.5% (582) White, 13.8% (140) Asian, 12.7% (129) Black, 11.6% (117) two or more races and 4.3% (44) Hispanic. The school offers a faculty professional development program, with 79% of the 175 faculty members holding advanced degrees and 11 holding doctorates. The school has accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1987 and is accredited until January 2025.

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Charles S. Shultz House
Charles S. Shultz House

The Charles S. Shultz House, also known as the Evergreens, is a historic house located in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The building was built in 1896 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1979. In the late 1800s, Montclair was changing from a farming community into a wealthy suburb due in part to many wealthy individuals moving from the cities, filled with pollution and crowded streets, to the suburbs, where there was plenty of clean air and open land. Charles S. Shultz, president of the Hoboken Savings Bank, was one of these individuals, moving to Montclair from Hoboken and building his home, Evergreens, in the flourishing city. Built by New York architect Michel LeBrun, the three story, twenty-one room mansion was built on the corner of North Mountain and Claremont Avenues in 1896. By 1952, the house had been passed on through three consecutive generations (Charles’s daughter, Emily, being the second owner), leaving Shultz’s granddaughter Marian (Molly) Shultz as the owner of the full property. In 1997 the house was bequeathed to the Montclair History Center (at the time the Montclair Historical Society) and turned into an historic house museum. With all of its original furnishings and family artifacts, the property encapsulated what a wealthy family’s home would have looked like during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Montclair, New Jersey. Commissioned because of his impressive legacy of work - churches, New York firehouses, the once tallest building in America from 1909 to 1913, and most importantly the Hoboken Bank for Savings in 1890–Michel LeBrun took on the job of building the Shultz home. Earning its name of Evergreens from the evergreen trees that surrounded the property, the forty foot building drew several different inspirations based on Shultz’s experiences in Europe. Asymmetrical with uneven windows, an arched hood, and a veranda were suited to Shultz and to the style of the time. The first floor is made predominantly of masonry in fear of a fire happening. Wanting to incorporate what was considered at the time advanced technology, Shultz wanted his home to have gas and electric lighting, an electric burglar alarm, an enunciator system, an elevator, a heating system, the most current plumbing, and ice box but cautioned the potential dangers of each technology in his home. He took on safety precautions, allowing the house to still remain today. The Charles Shultz House was operated as a historic house museum by the Montclair History Center from 1997-2021. Today the Shultz house is no longer a museum. It is now a private home.