The Historic Village at Allaire is one of the premier living history museums in the state of New Jersey. A living history museum portrays the everyday lives of people, whose stories are often lost in the grander schemes of history. The Historic Village at Allaire was once an iron-producing, factory-town known as the Howell Iron Works, Co. The Village was a self-sufficient community containing a carpentry and pattern making shop, a blacksmith shop, a bakery, a boarding house, a blast furnace, mills to finish iron products, a school, a church, a general store with a post office, and workers’ home. Iron produced at the village was shipped to New York City by wagon and steamship. It was used to produce steam engines parts in a factory also owned by our proprietor, James P. Allaire. The Howell Iron Works was a typical community at the time and speaks to the experiences of the economic and social changes of those who experienced early Industrial America.

Artistic gymnastic classes for students from 3 to 18 years of age using boys and girls olympic events. Tumbling classes for cheerleaders focusing primarily on skills necessary for appropriate team level. Private instruction [one on one] encompasses problem solving tech. difficulties and skill improvement. All instruction is progressive under safe training conditions in an atmosphere of fun, constant, busy activity using all equipment and stations insuring success and progress. Bill Balogh is the only coach and instructor creating a unique training facility. One class at a time using the entire facility and all available equipment without conflicts with equipment use and rotation to events.