FAIR LAWN, N.J. — A piece of Fair Lawn history is getting a major restoration boost.

The borough is set to accept a $537,509 matching grant to restore the historic Naugle-Vanderbeck House on Dunkerhook Road.

The grant requires Fair Lawn to put up an equal amount, bringing the total project cost to $1,075,018.

The Borough Council is scheduled to formalize acceptance of the 2024 grant at its Tuesday meeting. The money will help pay for interior and exterior restoration of the historic house.

Located at 42-49 Dunkerhook Road, the Naugle-Vanderbeck House dates to either 1740 or 1762 and was built by the Vanderbeck family.

According to the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, the house is one of the few surviving examples of mid-18th-century Dutch Colonial stone houses in Bergen County.

The home has another unusual feature. It was built into a bank, giving its basement ground-level access. The basement included a cooking area.

The house remained a private residence until 2003, when it was sold to a developer who planned to tear it down and build townhouses.

The historic home was saved after a local grassroots effort and was purchased by the current applicant in 2011.

Now, more than two decades after it was threatened with demolition, the house is in line for more than $1 million in restoration work.

The property sits next to the Barrister Court Townhomes at Dunkerhook, a 23-unit 55-plus townhouse community built around 2019.

For Fair Lawn, the grant means one of Bergen County’s remaining pieces of 18th-century history will get a major new investment.