READINGTON TWP. — The review of architectural drawings on planned changes to outbuildings at Ryland Inn is on the township Historic Preservation Commission agenda for Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m.
The commission, which advises the township Planning and zoning boards, meets at the Municipal Building.
Board Chairwoman Pat Fisher-Olsen said a design review was required by the township because of the age of the structures on the property. She said the commission works in advisory capacity, trying to ensure that anyone "touching a historic building is touching it accurately."
Tonight, she said, the commission will see how the exterior of 19th-century barns on the site would be treated.
The storied restaurant was reopened in 2012 by Frank and Jeanne Cretella of Landmark Hospitality, following foreclosure and a five-year vacancy.
Since then Landmark has opened banquet space and plans more.
The inn was built before 1800 by Col. David Sanderson. He ran it as an inn on the Brunswick Pike, the main route between New Brunswick and Easton.
In 1906 Kencyl Ryman purchased the property and it was a dairy farm until he sold the property to the Black family in 1934. They operated the Ryland Inn, selling it in 1989 to PFL Inc. Chef Craig Shelton joined the restaurant in 1991, and later bought out his partners.
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