About Us and History

The Park Savoy Estate … a magnificent New Jersey landmark, nestled in a historical park setting. The Park Savoy Estate presents more than 50 years of catering tradition with a spectacular multimillion-dollar renovation. The Park Savoy Estate's 19th century architecture and lavishly manicured gardens provide the perfect scenery for your outdoor ceremony and cocktail hour.

Convenient to all major highways, The Park Savoy Estate resides in the same location for more than 50 years and is proudly family owned and operated. The Park Savoy Estate offers the ideal setting for extraordinary catered events including spectacular weddings, distinguished corporate affairs, and all your family celebrations. Our Ballroom is reserved exclusively for one affair at a time and spaciously accommodates up to 400 seated guests.

We welcome you to browse our website and look forward to hearing from you. We may be reached at 973-377-7100 to arrange your visit to The Park Savoy Estate, and we invite you to contact us soon!

If These Walls Could Talk: The History of the Park Savoy

The Park Savoy, like all historic buildings, has had many lives and has even more stories to tell. Over a hundred years ago, it was home to an early Florham Park family. In fact, at the very heart of the present-day building, the bones of that 1870 house still exist. It was built in the Second Empire style fashionable at the time and the style's characteristic mansard roof is visible today in the building's roofline. The house and the surrounding 150 acre dairy farm formed the homestead of George W. Felch (1822-1899), the patriarch of a prominent early family of Columbia, as Florham Park was known during the 19th century. Felch was instrumental in the early planning and fund raising which led to the building of the town's Little Red School House just down the road at the corner of Ridgedale and Columbia Turnpike. His son, George E. Felch, served as the town's second mayor from 1902-1906 and was a key member of both the Board of Education and the fire department, helping to insure the importance of the Felch name in Florham Park history.

In 1918, nearly twenty years after his father died, George E. Felch sold the house and much of the property to Edwin S. Marston, a New York financier and the president of the Farmers Loan and Trust Company. The Marston's remodeled and enlarged the house, transforming it into a showcase, described the Madison Eagle of May 11, 1923 as "pretentious." As the Eagle reported, "[the house] measuring ninety-six feet by thirty feet, has gas, electric lights, steam heat and running water…four masters' bedrooms, three tiled bathrooms. Outside, it boasted a "fully enclosed tennis court, rose garden, garage for two cars, with an adjoining shed suitable for four cars, and a large laundry".

The Marston era was short-lived however. Edwin Marston died suddenly at age seventy-one in October of 1922. By the following May, his wife Emma had decided to sell the property to Samuel "Schimmy" Blume and Jacob Weinberg of Newark. According to the Madison Eagle article mentioned above, they planned to use it as an "inn and dancing resort." With this sale, a new and very different era in the house's history began.