Photos and Photo Archives

The FDU digital library currently includes 112 photographs showing the Florham estate before it was an FDU campus. This and other pages of the Friends of Florham website have “then and now” comparisons of the original photographs to the same views today.

Click on any of these pairs of images to visit the larger original image in the FDU Digital Archives.

Then and now photos of the Florham estate drawing room, showing its transformation into an auditorium.
The huge drawing room is now an auditorium able to seat hundreds.
Then-and-now view of the mansion's main floor hallway. The before view shows tapestries lining the hall.
The main floor hallway of the mansion once featured the family's collection of tapestries.
Then-and-now view of the mansion's billiard room, now a conference room. The panelling remains.
The mansion's billiard room is now a conference room, still with the rich original panelling.
Restored staircase: Before and after views of the main staircase from first to second floor, showing the restoration.
The Friends of Florham assisted in the restoration of the main staircase from the first floor to the second.
Wintergate estate entrance, then and now. The road is wider now than it used to be.
The estate's main gate is on Madison Avenue, which can be seen to be wider now than it used to be.
Side-by-side comparison of the mansion facade, showing the absence of shutters on the windows in the right-hand (modern)
A change to the mansion facade is that shutters are no longer mounted for each of the many windows.
Before and after view of the Italian Garden with increased foliage, providing more seclusion.
Increase in foliage gives the Italian Garden a sense of seclusion it did not have years ago.
A side-by-side image of the Orangerie, then and now.
Interior of the Orangerie with floral displays; reading room with tables and chairs.
Side-by-side photos of the Orangerie: original with glass roof and plants; current study space with tables.
The Orangerie is now a quiet study space in the campus Library, and no longer has the distinctive translucent roof that once allowed citrus fruit trees to grow through the New Jersey winter.
Early photo of the Orangerie with greenhouses behind it, before trees formed a backdrop.
This early photo shows the Orangerie with its greenhouses behind it, and was taken before trees formed a backdrop for the building.
Then and now: The stables, now the campus Science Building, with driveway wide enough for two carriages.
The stables, now the campus Science Building, once had a driveway wide enough for two carriages to pass.
Two images of the stable gate at Florham campus, Fairleigh Dickinson University, in different eras.