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The Valerie Fund announces designers participating in The Clark Rogers House, A Designer Showhouse to benefit children in our area battling cancer and blood disorders

The Valerie Fund announces the interior designers selected for The Clark Rogers House, a designer showhouse benefiting the organization. The Designer Showhouse will be open for public tours April 30th through May 24, 2026. Located just steps from Plainfield’s historic Millionaires’ Row, The Clark Rogers House is a noteworthy example of Victorian Italianate and Queen Anne-style architecture. Built in the 1860s for retired merchant Clark Rogers, the home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is part of Plainfield’s Van Wyck Brooks Historic District.  

This is a unique project, with the home purchased by a neighborhood collective invested in restoring and reimaging the historic home. The designers will be following a modern-day manor house theme, as set by the Design Committee made up of part-owner, Krisja Lorenson, with Valerie Dottle, Jane Yaris, and Tina Squeri representing The Valerie Fund. The designers will bring their vision to meld with the home’s original features, including ornate decorative molding, original fireplaces and mantles, and stained-glass windows. Over 20 design spaces make up the over 3,600-square-foot home.

We are very grateful to the designers on this project, Isla Porter, Adina Kornbluth, California Closets, Jourdan Fairchild, Marilyn LaVergne Interiors, Marina V., Mimi + Hill, Spaces by Hollie Velten, SRF Interiors, Tess Interiors, and Vestige Home. If you would like to learn more about the designers, please visit The Valerie Fund’s website at https://thevaleriefund.org/showhouse/designers/.  

The Valerie Fund would like to recognize sponsors, Isla Porter, NJ Monthly, Benjamin Moore, Schwartz Design Showroom, and HCO Interiors. Sponsorship opportunities are still available. Please contact Bunny Flanders at (973) 202-1992 or bflanders@thevaleriefund.org

The Clark Rogers Designer Showhouse will be open for self-guided tours Thursdays through Sundays beginning April 30, 2026, through May 24, 2026. Tickets for self-guided tours of The Clark Rogers House are available for purchase now at https://thevaleriefund.org/showhouse/. The success of this fundraiser will benefit The Valerie Fund’s upcoming $5,000,000 capital campaign, which will fund the first three years of the brand-new Valerie Fund Pediatric Pain and Palliative Care Program at Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center and ensure The Valerie Fund hallmark psychosocial services can be sustained at the eight Valerie Fund Children’s Centers.

ABOUT THE VALERIE FUND: After their nine-year-old daughter Valerie Goldstein succumbed to cancer in 1976, her parents Sue and Ed Goldstein were determined that no family should have to travel great distances to receive superior medical care. Along with a group of close friends, they began fundraising efforts from their living room---tireless work that would lead to the 1977 opening of New Jersey’s first pediatric oncology facility at Summit’s Overlook Hospital. Nearly fifty years later, The Valerie Fund’s mission remains that of supporting comprehensive healthcare for children battling cancer and blood disorders. The Valerie Fund treats more than 6,500 patients each year at eight treatment centers throughout New Jersey, New York, and metro Philadelphia.