Old Main
Designed by architect George Harney (1840-1924) and constructed of local granite in the 1880s, Old Main is the centerpiece of Delbarton Campus. In 1927 the Monastery and school of theology were established by the monks of St. Mary’s Abbey, then located in Newark, and in 1939 the monks launched a boys’ school, Delbarton, named after the estate’s original owner, Luther Kountze, by taking sysables from the names of three of his four children: Barclay Ward, William DeLancey and Helen Livingston. In those days Old Main was ‘Old Everything’, the place where boys lived, dined and studied. The arches of the mansion’s carriage porch, or porte-cochere, are the inspiration for the Delbarton yearbook’s ‘Archway’ theme. Today, Old Main is home to the Peter L. O'Neill '59 Alumni Center, the business office, development office, marketing and communications offices, formal entertaining spaces and the Delbarton Shop.