William Green House (Ewing Township, New Jersey)

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William Green House
2014-12-30 12 32 08 Southwest side of the William Green House at the College of New Jersey in Ewing, New Jersey.JPG
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LocationMetzger Drive, Ewing Township, New Jersey
Coordinates 40°15′54.2″N74°46′38.6″W / 40.265056°N 74.777389°W / 40.265056; -74.777389
Builtc.1717
NRHP reference No. 73001106 [1]
NJRHP No.1645 [2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 4, 1973
Designated NJRHPSeptember 6, 1973

The William Green House is a historic brick farmhouse in Ewing Township of Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 1973, for its significance in agriculture and architecture. [3]

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History and description

The first home on the site was built in the last decade of the 17th century. According to a privately published family monograph, the farmhouse was the home of Judge William Green, who was born in the 1600s in England and died in 1722 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. [4] The oldest parts of the current structure date to c.1717 and the newest to 1830. The house is owned by the College of New Jersey, but is in a poor state of repair. [3] It has been considered an endangered historic site for over 40 years and, despite efforts taken by the college in 2006 to shore up the structure, was listed in 2015 as one of New Jersey's 10 most endangered historic sites by Preservation New Jersey. [5] [6]

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References

  1. "National Register Information System  (#73001106)". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Mercer County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection – Historic Preservation Office. September 29, 2022. p. 2.
  3. 1 2 Blake, Channing (March 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: William Green House". National Park Service. With accompanying two photos
  4. Greene, Alton Lee. Greene Family Tree of Jeremiah and Anne Hartley Greene 1700-1970, spiral-bound monograph published some time after 1970 by Claude Greene, Pineville, Louisiana, 125 pp.
  5. Massand, Rikki. "William Green House at the College of New Jersey". Preservation New Jersey.
  6. "TCNJ, preservationists at odds over future of 1730s farmhouse". NJ.com. Retrieved November 21, 2017.