We are honored to be housed inside the fieldstone building, a rubblestone structure with a history as rich and stunning as the artwork it houses.

The fieldstone building was built in two phases. The front section was built in 1911 as a single room and was used for the North Jersey Rapid Transit Company trolley line, which reached Ramsey in the early spring of that same year. The back section, also a single room ,was added in 1923. The original structure had a porch with 4 rubblestone pillars in front. The trolley line was a 16 mile route that served East Paterson, Fairlawn, Glen Rock, Ridgewood, Waldwick, Allendale, Ramsey and Ho-Ho-Kus, where the line's headquarters was located. The route was extended to Suffern, New York in 1912. A proposed southward extension to Newark never came to pass, which is unfortunate because it could have been then connected to the Hudson and Manhattan lines, increasing the number of passengers.

In 1927, the line was sold to the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, a company which operated a large number of transit lines throughout the state. The company abandoned the trolley operation, replacing the cars with buses on January 1, 1929.

It has been said that the building also served as a place where women were taught how to use machinery, such as lathes and milling machines, in 1942 while the men were off fighting during World War II. Just like "Rosie the Riveter,"