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Morven | |
![]() Morven in 2006. | |
Location | 55 Stockton Street, Princeton Boro, NJ |
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Coordinates | 40°20′50.97″N 74°40′1.03″W / 40.3474917°N 74.6669528°W |
Built | 1730 |
Architect | Unknown |
Architectural style | Georgian |
NRHP reference No. | 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.
History
editThe land was originally part of a 5,500-acre (22 km2) tract purchased from William Penn by [[Richard Stockton in 1701. In 1754, his grandson, Richard Stockton (1730-1781) acquired 150 acres (0.61 km2) of the original lot and built the house. His wife, Annis Boudinot Stockton named the house "Morven" from a poem by Ossian.[3] Commodore Robert Stockton (1795-1869) lived in the house. Robert Wood Johnson II was the first non-Stockton to live there when he leased the home after Bayard Stockton died in 1932.[3][4] In 1944 Walter E. Edge, the New Jersey Governor purchased Morven. The sale had a deed restriction that the property would be given to New Jersey within two years of Edge's death.[5] Edge ultimately transferred possession of Morven to the state during 1954, several years before he died.[6] Morven became the Governor's Mansion until Drumthwacket was used starting in 1982.
Owners
edit- Richard Stockton I from 1701 till 1707
- John Stockton from 1707
- Richard Stockton (1730-1781)
- Robert Field Stockton (1795-1869)
- Walter E. Edge from 1944 to 1954
- Governor’s Mansion from 1954 to 1981
- Museum 1982 to now
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 15, 2006.
- ^ "Morven". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. 2008-06-23.
- ^ a b "Morven Museum". Retrieved 2012-01-25.
His wife, Annis Boudinot Stockton, was a prolific poet who named their house "Morven" after a mythical Gaelic kingdom in the epic poems of Ossian.
- ^ "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
External links
editSee also
edit- Westland Mansion, patterned after Morven
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Mercer County, New Jersey
Category:Houses completed in 1730 Category:National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey Category:Historic house museums in New Jersey Category:Museums in Princeton, New Jersey Category:Biographical museums in New Jersey Category:Houses in Mercer County, New Jersey