This 1920 Hapgood home that defined Mountain Lakes was listed for $1.15M. See inside

When Mountain Lakes became a borough in 1924, the home at 1 Cobb Road helped define it.

Built four years earlier, the now four-bedroom, four-bathroom home was one of hundreds constructed under the watch of Herbert J. Hapgood. An ambitious developer, Hapgood mapped the community's growth and timed it with the 1912 arrival of the Mountain Lakes train station.

The first Hapgood home was occupied in March 1911 by Lawrence Luellens, the creator of the Dixie Cup, according to borough records. Within two years, there were about 200 Hapgood homes. Another 400 were built by the end of 1923 when Hapgood abandoned the project, his wife and children to flee inescapable financial ruin.

Unlike Hapgood's reputation, most of his homes still stand. Many newer homes were built in Hapgood's trademark — the Arts and Crafts style. Craftsman architecture mixed with colonial and neo-classical details, the homes featured odes to the area's landscape. Trees cut to clear construction zones were fashioned into chestnut paneling and oak flooring. Fieldstone removed from home footprints was often repurposed as foundations, chimneys and stone walls.

The Hapgood home at 1 Cobb Road fits in that mold. Though expanded and modernized in places, the home retains much of its original look with low-hipped roofs saddling gambrel peaks, interior archways and hardwood floors extending to the bedrooms and kitchen. The stucco and stone home was built in 1920, according to local historical society records, and is for sale for $1.15 million.

Mary Menard, the listing agent with Compass New Jersey, said the best feature of 1 Cobb Road may be relatively new: the eat-in kitchen that was expanded and remodeled about 20 years ago. The home also has a newer family room addition topped with the home's primary suite, she said. Both were added about 30 years ago, Menard said.

Far before then, 1 Cobb Road housed two of the area's foremost law enforcement officers. Both were named Daniel J. Allen.

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The father and son served as Morris County Prosecutor's Office detectives for most of the 20th century, with the elder Allen making newspaper reports across four decades for his work. Many of his cases today seem nostalgic.

Among the first was a 1925 prohibition probe into rum runners. A crackdown on counterfeiters in 1933 was followed by a 1950 raid on an illegal horse betting ring. Perhaps the most notable case was the still unsolved 1933 disappearance of Denville's Martha Jane Cooper, a wealthy 71-year-old who lived alone on her 32-acre Denville farm before allegedly leaving one August day with two unknown women in a red car.

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Allen's son was a World War II veteran who was deployed with other reinforcements during the five-week-long Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944-45 and served as a scout for the 78th Infantry Division's Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon. After arriving home, he earned a law degree and became a criminal investigator at Picatinny Arsenal in Rockaway Township before filling his father's shoes at the Morris County Prosecutor's Office in 1955.  A lieutenant by January 1963, he became chief of county detectives in November 1979. During his time with the office, he led the homicide squad and investigation divisions, according to his obituary.

Both senior and junior lived at 1 Cobb Road in January 1943, when the younger married fellow Boonton High School graduate Helen Edelmann, according to the Paterson Morning Call. A municipal chair of the Boonton Township Republican Committee later in life, she was heavily involved with local Republican politics. Prior to her 2001 retirement, she worked at times for U.S. Congressmen Joseph Maraziti and Dean Gallo as well as state senators John Dorsey and Anthony R. Bucco. All four had deep ties to the Boonton area.

This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: This 1920 Hapgood home in North Jersey listed for $1.15M