Felician College (now University)
This campus is at the corner of Passaic Avenue and Montross Avenue, and it includes Iviswold, an 1860s house expanded in the 1890s to resemble a medieval castle.Peter Sammartino established Fairleigh Dickinson Junior College on the property in 1942 with seed money from Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr., co-founder of the medical supply company Becton Dickinson. The B-D plant was in East Rutherford (they have since moved to Franklin Lakes), and part of their old property is now occupied by Henry P. Becton Regional High School. FDJC became a four-year school in 1947 and a university in 1956, later expanding to campuses in Teaneck/Hackensack and Florham Park/Madison which still operate today.
With the opening of a new gymnasium in Hackensack in 1987, FDU started phasing out its Rutherford operations, leaving town completely by 1992. Various proposals surfaced for subdividing the property, but nothing happened. Eventually, Felician College, a Franciscan school in Lodi that had opened as all-female but had gone co-educational, expressed interest in the property, which included classroom buildings, dormitories, and the original FDU gym.
Today, Felician uses the old gymnasium as its home for men's and women's basketball. The school also contributed to the renovation of Tryon Field at Memorial Park, which it uses for men's and women's soccer. Tryon Field now hosts the Central Atlantic College Conference soccer tournament each season. The use of the field for Felician sports and the CACC tournament ended around 2010.
The campus entrance stone, along Passaic Avenue.
Sammartino Hall, on the corner of Montross and Passaic. The building, one of the few to retain its FDU name, is usually called "the Round Building".
Another view of Sammartino Hall, from Montross Avenue.
A dormitory off the small main parking lot.
The Joal & Joe Job Gymnasium. The former FDU Alumni Gym commemorates residents who lived nearby on Montross Avenue. Joe Job, a former Bergen County sheriff, was also a sports nut and is a member of the Bergen County Semipro Baseball Hall of Fame.
Iviswold Castle.
A commemorative plaque on Iviswold Castle.
The former FDU Messler Library, on Montross Avenue. You can see part of Iviswold behind the library; the two buildings connect.
The former Becton Hall, on Montross Avenue.
Dormitory, Wood Street and Elliott Place.