Join the Friends of Frazee
Become involved in the "Friends of Frazee House" by calling Blanchard Hiatt at 908-233-9194 or email secretary@frazeehouse.org.The Betty Frazee Project is happy to accept donations at any time.
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Donate a used car
Click here for detailsSeeking a Vision for the Restored Frazee House – Make your Suggestion!
The Frazee organization’s mission on our home page. The mission claims high ground for honoring the history of Union County and Scotch Plains, as is warranted. But that is not a vision of what becomes of the house itself.
What use would you put the house to? At a minimum, preservation and restoration is required for the kitchen where Betty baked the bread that made her and our region famous in Revolutionary War annals.
And yet, since Union County has other highly authentic historic sites, is there reason to restore the Frazee house to precisely what Gershom and Betty might have lived in?
House museums in Union County include the Miller-Cory House in Westfield and the Cannonball House near the Scotch Plains town hall. And several others. Each sustains the historic meaning of the dwelling. Each commands a devoted community following to maintain the property and plan and stage events appealing to the public. The utilization of house museums must be at a level appealing to sources of support.
Since the colonial Frazee house was a farm, it is highly appropriate that the acreage adjacent to it, owned by Scotch Plains, may become a community garden, as has been discussed.
What about the Frazee house itself? The most critical historic aspect of the house is its kitchen, still a largely original structure, still possessing (we believe) the very oven in which Betty baked her famous bread. Adjacent to the kitchen is first floor space dating to Betty and Gershom’s time, and the second storey too is integral to the original colonial structure. All of the colonially authentic space could be restored, or at lesser expense the house could be restored with optimal authenticity only in historically critical areas such as the kitchen only or the first floor only.
You, constituents of the Frazee project, may know of organizations in Union County that could benefit from the space in the Frazee house. An organization may need a few hundred square feet of space. Or a group of organizations might share or divide the space.
The possibilities for using Frazee space are probably more varied than the Frazee Board has imagined. Accordingly, your input could make a difference. Send your ideas to secretary@frazeehouse.org.
Donate a Car to Support Frazee House Restoration
To respond to growing interest in the restoration of the Frazee House in Scotch Plains, the Aunt Betty Frazee Project now enables its supporters and donors to make contributions in the form of used car donations.
The Frazee project is now associated with Charitable Auto Resources (CARS). Frazee supporters can donate unwanted cars, trucks, motorcycles, RVs, boats, pianos and more. CARS will pick up the donated item at no cost to the donor and sell it at auction. Of the proceeds, 70 percent will go to the Fanwood-Scotch Plains Rotary Frazee House, Inc.
Donors of an item will receive a receipt from CARS and a letter acknowledging the donation from the Frazee organization, which is a tax-deduction qualified 501(c)3 not for profit charity.
Frazee supporters can link to the CARS website for information about the donation procedure. Or go first to charitableautoresources.com and learn more about CARS. At the CARS site a donor can ‘find a charity’ and in the list for New Jersey, find ‘Frazee house’ to initiate a donation. Or a donor can call 877-537-5277 and mention Frazee house.
Charitable Auto Resources Inc. is a Better Business Bureau accredited organization which has met BBB standards for three continuous years and received no complaints from consumers who have used its services.
