- Morven (Princeton, New Jersey)
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Morven
Morven in 2006.Location: 55 Stockton Street, Princeton Boro, NJ Coordinates: 40°20′50.97″N 74°40′1.03″W / 40.3474917°N 74.6669528°WCoordinates: 40°20′50.97″N 74°40′1.03″W / 40.3474917°N 74.6669528°W Built: 1730 Architect: Unknown Architectural style: Georgian Governing body: State NRHP Reference#: 71000503 [1] Significant dates Added to NRHP: January 25, 1971 Designated NHL: July 17, 1971[2] Morven, known officially as Morven Museum & Garden, is a historic house at 55 Stockton Street in the Borough of Princeton, New Jersey, United States.
It was originally part of a 5,500-acre (22 km2) tract purchased from William Penn by Richard Stockton during 1701. During 1754, his grandson, Richard Stockton (1730-1781), signer of the Declaration of Independence, acquired 150 acres (0.61 km2) of this land and built the house. His wife, Annis Boudinot Stockton, was a poet and named their house "Morven" after a mythical Gaelic kingdom in a poem by Ossian. Commodore Robert Stockton (1795-1869) lived in the house. Robert Wood Johnson II, Chairman of the company Johnson and Johnson, was the first non-Stockton to reside at Morven, leasing the home after Bayard Stockton died during 1932.[3] In 1944, New Jersey Governor Walter E. Edge purchased Morven from the Stockton family. The sale was subject to the condition that Morven would be given to the state of New Jersey within two years of Edge’s death.[4] Edge ultimately transferred possession of Morven to the state during 1954, several years before he died.[5] Morven then served as the state’s first Governor’s Mansion until 1981. During 1982, the New Jersey Governor’s Mansion was re-designated as nearby Drumthwacket, and Morven became a museum.
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Owners
- Richard Stockton I from 1701 till 1707
- John Stockton from 1707
- Richard Stockton (1730-1781)
- Robert Stockton (1795-1869)
- Walter E. Edge from 1944 to 1954
- Governor’s Mansion from 1954 to 1981
- Museum 1982 to now
See also
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2006-03-15. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ "Morven". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. 2008-06-23. http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1117&ResourceType=Building.
- ^ "Edge Buys Historic Mansion at Princeton; Governor Will Later Give it to New Jersey", The New York Times, Nov. 11, 1944, p. 15
- ^ Edge, Water Evans, A Jerseyman's Journal, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press 1948
- ^ "Jersey Acquires Estate of Edge", The New York Times, Jan. 28, 1954, p. 29
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See also
- Westland Mansion, patterned after Morven
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Mercer County, New Jersey
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