Perkins Center for the Arts

[1][2] Perkins operates from a 1910 historic Tudor home and carriage building in Moorestown, New Jersey,[3] and a former printing press in Collingswood, New Jersey.Perkins Center offers arts programs that promote participation, and understanding.

The home on the former nursery property was built in 1910 by Herbert C. Wise, a noted Philadelphia architect, as a wedding gift to Dudley and Alice Perkins.

Dudley Sr.’s death, Alice Perkins invited her sister, Mable (Sullivan) and husband Francis D’Olier to live with her at Evergreen Lawn.

Responding to this situation, a group of concerned Moorestown citizens including Sally Harrall, Jean Gaasch, Frank Keenan and Louis Matlack fought to save Evergreen Lawn and had the buildings listed on the National and State Registers of Historic Places in 1975.

Thanks to community involvement and support, the township’s Recreational Advisory Committee recommended that the building be retained for use as a self-sustaining cultural arts center.