The nineteenth-century Meyer-Rice house was for a time the artistic center of Highland Park life, where some of the first generation of Pop Art artists came over from Rutgers to lead workshops for our residents. Later it became attached to the Y--quite literally, with a brick arm of the Y building wrapping across the front of the old mansion. Current plans by the Y envision the rezoning and sale of part of their property for a hi-rise residential building, while constructing a new Y on the remainder. In the process, the more-than-centenarian house would be demolished. Planning Board meetings, first on the residential rezoning and perhaps later on construction plans themselves, promise to raise controversy over the fate of the Meyer-Rice house. Photo: Arnold Clayton Henderson 9/21/2006.
