Morven Tract HD Final Report With Forms 1209

THe mOrVeN TrAcT HISTOrIc DISTrIcT PrINceTON bOrOUGH mercer cOUNTY, NeW JerSeY HISTOrIcAL AND ArcHITecTUrAL DOcUmeNTATION
Prepared for: Friends of the Western Section
Prepared by: Charles H. Ashton Richard W. Hunter
December 2009
TAbLe of ConTenTS
Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................................. i List of Figure, Plates and Tables .......................................................................................................................... ii 1. InTroduCTIon .......................................................................................................................................... 1 2. desCrIPTIon............................................................................................................................................... 2 3. deveLoPmenTaL HIsTory .................................................................................................................... 2 4. moved BuILdIngs ................................................................................................................................. 23 5. arCHITeCTs .............................................................................................................................................. 24 6. sTaTemenT oF sIgnIFICanCe ............................................................................................................. 27 reFerenCes ................................................................................................................................................ r-1 aPPendICes a. architectural survey Forms ....................................................................................................................... a-1 B. resumes
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LIST of fIGUreS, PLATeS AnD TAbLeS
LIsT oF FIgures 1. map of the proposed morven Tract Historic district showing the district boundary, block and lot numbers and street addresses .................................................................... 3 2. e. sandoz, Part of the morven Property Princeton n.J, 1890................................................................ 12 3. J.m. Lathrop, Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton, 1905............................................. 13 4. sanborn map Company, Fire Insurance maps of Princeton, new Jersey, 1906........................................ 14 5. sanborn map Company, Fire Insurance maps of Princeton, new Jersey, 1911 ........................................ 15 6. sanborn map Company, Fire Insurance maps of Princeton, new Jersey, 1927........................................ 16 7. sanborn map Company, Fire Insurance maps of Princeton, new Jersey, 1943........................................ 17 8. Composite map of the proposed morven Tract Historic district based on the historic map data of 1905, 1906, 1911, 1927 and 1943 ............................................................................. 18 9. Proposed morven Tract Historic district Boundary superimposed over Princeton Borough Zoning map ................................................................................................................................ 28 LIsT oF PLaTes 1. view south along the west side of Bayard Lane from Hodge road ............................................................ 4 2. view west along the south side of Boudinot street, eastern end ................................................................. 5 3. view east along the south side of Boudinot street, western end ................................................................. 6 4. view east along the south side of Hodge road from Library Place ............................................................ 7 5. view north along the west side of Library Place from Boudinot street ...................................................... 8 6. view south along the west side of Library Place from Boudinot street ...................................................... 9 7. view south along the west side of morven Place from Hodge road ........................................................ 10 LIsT oF TaBLes 1. Princeton university faculty and staff resident in the morven Tract Historic district up to 1916 ....................................................................................................................... 20
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THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT PrInCeTon boroUGH, merCer CoUnTY, neW JerSeY HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon
1. InTroDUCTIon
This document presents the results of historical and architectural research completed by Hunter research, Inc. for the neighborhood group the Friends of the Western section in support of an anticipated effort to designate the morven Tract Historic district as a local historic district under the Borough of Princeton municipal Code. The proposed district would be the fifth such district within the Borough and would directly abut the northern boundary of the mercer Hill Historic district. Formal designation of this district would entail compliance with the designation process of the Borough of Princeton Historic Preservation review Committee, which serves in an advisory capacity to the Boroughs Zoning and Planning Boards and Borough Council. The survey, conducted according to established historic preservation practices and procedures, sought to answer the question of whether or not the morven Tract neighborhood constitutes an historic district. Historic districts are mentioned (although not defined) in the Princeton Borough Code pertaining to local designation of historic resources, but a definition is available from the national Park service, which characterizes an historic district as a geographically definable area, urban or rural, possessing a significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of sites, buildings, structures, or objects united by past events or aesthetically by plan or physical development. Three broad activities were employed to determine whether the morven Tract meets this definition: background research into the history of the neighborhood and the people who shaped it historically, whether architect, builder, or client (this task also included review of two prior surveys in the vicinity); field recording, in which every primary building was photographed and significant features noted; and the synthesis of the results of these two activities into the present report. In what follows, the district as a whole, as it exists today, is described summarily in the next section of the document, after which is summarized the history of the development of the neighborhood. Two shorter sections follow, one that discusses the six buildings that were moved into the neighborhood and another that introduces the architects known to have been associated with specific buildings within the neighborhood. Finally, a statement of significance ties together the physical appearance and the history of the neighborhood, linking it to significant events, people and architecture. Information on individual buildings was recorded using standard new Jersey Historic Preservation office survey forms. These are appended as appendix a. appendix B contains the resumes of Hunter research staff involved in the project, both of whom meet the secretary of the Interiors Professional Qualifications Standards.
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HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT
2. DeSCrIPTIon
The proposed morven Tract Historic district is comprised of all of Boudinot street and morven Place, both sides of Library Place south of Hodge road nearly to stockton street, the west side of Bayard Lane south of Hodge road and the south side of Hodge road east of Library Place (Figure 1; Plates 1-7). The district contains 51 principal buildings, all but three of which are single-family houses (many with garages). The exceptions are Borough Hall and the suzanne Patterson Center (both modern) and a church on Bayard Lane. Because the district was developed over a fairly short time period, the architecture represents a snapshot of some of the styles prevalent in the two decades surrounding the turn of the last century. Thus, streetscapes generally do not display a wide temporal range of styles, as most of the houses were built before World War I. However, the districts temporal diversity is broadened by the fact that at least six existing buildings were moved onto their lots from elsewhere in Princeton. These moved buildings range in construction date from the late 18th century to the 1870s and they give an added architectural and historical depth to the district that would not otherwise be present. Two of the moved houses were built by Charles steadman, Princetons noted 19th century builder/architect. setbacks are uniform and street trees are nearly ubiquitous. Writing in 1931 about Library Place (where he was a resident as early as 1905), varnum Lansing Collins spoke of the wealth of foliage and flowering shrubs and the fine old trees that speak of earlier ownerships and give this part of Princeton its intimate beauty (Collins 1931:35). This description is as appropriate today as when it was written. modern traffic affects the district most acutely on its eastern edge. Bayard Lane is part of u.s. route 206, a major regional artery, and is thus subject to use by tractor trailers and intense periods of commuter traffic. Two buildings in the district were evaluated as Key Contributing. Because the district is relatively compact and self-contained on all or part of six blocks and six streets, these two buildings are at two of the outer corners, where the district connects with its surrounding environment. These two buildings, both houses, are at the corner of Hodge road and Library Place (159 Library Place) and Bayard Lane and Hodge road (56 Bayard Lane). Both occupy highly visible and prominent locations, and the presence of a significant house at each is important to the districts identity.
3. DeveLoPmenTAL HISTorY
The genesis of the proposed morven Tract Historic district is intertwined with the history of the morven property and the stockton family, ancestral owners of the estate: the district encompasses lots laid out at the time of the first major subdivision of morven land in 1890. The district is also linked to the metamorphosis of the College of new Jersey into Princeton university in 1896. Because of these two status-conferring associations it quickly became a very desirable neighborhood, with strong university connections. some owners of building lots moved existing houses from elsewhere in Princeton, while others commissioned architects to erect their
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Figure 1. map of the Proposed morven Tract Historic district showing the Proposed Historic district Boundary (outlined by red dashed line), Block and Lot numbers and street addresses. scale: 1 inch= 260 feet (approximately). Base map: Princeton Borough engineering department.
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Plate 1. view looking south along the west side of Bayard Lane from Hodge road (Photographer: Charles H. ashton, February 2009) [HrI neg. # 08065/d3:29].
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Plate 2. view looking west along the south side of Boudinot street, eastern end (Photographer: Charles H. ashton, February 2009) [HrI neg. # 08065/d3:34].
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Plate 3. view looking east along the south side of Boudinot street, western end (Photographer: Charles H. ashton, march 2009) [HrI neg. # 08065/d4:1].
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Plate 4. view looking east along the south side of Hodge road from Library Place (Photographer: Charles H. ashton, march 2009) [HrI neg. # 08065/d6:6].
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Plate 5. view looking north along the west side of Library Place from Boudinot street (Photographer: Charles H. ashton, march 2009) [HrI neg. # 08065/d5:15].
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Plate 6. view looking south along the west side of Library Place from Boudinot street (Photographer: Charles H. ashton, march 2009) [HrI neg. # 08065/d5:14].
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Plate 7. view looking south along the west side of morven Place from Hodge road (Photographer: Charles H. ashton, march 2009) [HrI neg. # 08065/d5:16].
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houses. The result is a residential neighborhood that came into existence suddenly, in the two decades surrounding the turn of the last century. of the 48 houses in the district, nearly three-quarters were in existence just 15 years after the initial subdivision of lots. The land that would become the morven property, including all of the proposed morven Tract Historic district, was part of William Penns east Jersey proprietary holdings, conveyed to him in 1693. Penn sold off 5,500 acres to richard stockton in 1701. stockton sold 300 acres to Benjamin Fitzrandolph in 1705, and Bayard Lane occupies one of the property lines in this latter transaction (Federal Highway administration 1984:105). The stockton land west of Bayard Lane eventually became morven and remained in the stockton family for nearly two centuries (the house itself even longer). The history of the estate, its owners and residents has been amply treated elsewhere, most recently and perhaps most thoroughly in Morven: Memory, Myth & Reality by Constance m. greiff and Wanda s. gunning (2004). a brief recitation of the history of the property as the 19th century closed is relevant to the history of the district. In 1869 morven came into the possession of major samuel Witham stockton after the death of his uncle, Commodore robert F. stockton. The Commodores offspring the majors cousins had inherited the property in 1866 but they, unable or unwilling to maintain it, had transferred it to samuel Witham stockton in satisfaction of a debt (greiff and gunning 2004:132-139). major stockton was a Civil War veteran and a farmer. unlike the other side of the family, he did not have an outside income to help offset the costs of running the estate, and the expenses seem to have eventually overtaken the income. during his tenure stockton sold off a few lots on Bayard Lane, and he also built a rental property at what is now 34 Bayard Lane in 1877. morven was in decline; a visitor in 1875 called it somewhat shabby (Federal Highway administration 2004:106; greiff and gunning 2004:138-140). In 1890 conditions were so dire that stockton was in default on a mortgage, and a sheriffs sale was scheduled. rather than see the stockton legacy end in this manner, he transferred morven to a group of trustees who carved the property into a number of large and small parcels (Figure 2). The parcel on which morven stood consisted of 11 acres, all south of the newly-created Boudinot street, but the remainder of the historic district was laid out in streets and lots. morven Place and Hodge road came into being (with morven Place extending south of Boudinot street as a paper street to an intersection with stockton street). steadman street (todays Library Place) was extended north of stockton street, with the new roadway being laid out considerably wider than the pre-existing street. The new streets are not named on the subdivision map. Figure 2 also shows the buildings then standing in the subdivided area, including a gardeners house on the north side of Boudinot street just west of morven Place, stables to the northwest and two unidentified buildings (one of which stood in Boudinot street). of these, the gardeners house is believed to survive, now at the northeast corner of Boudinot street and morven Place. Figure 2 also indicates lots where houses were already standing: the misses stevens house, no longer standing, at 10-16 Bayard Lane; the rental house at 34 Bayard
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Figure 2. sandoz, e.. Part of the morven Property Princeton n.J. 1890. This map shows the proposed historic district as it came into existence with the subdivision of part of the morven property. scale: 1 inch= 285 feet (approximately). source: Historical society of Princeton (original on file at Princeton Borough engineering department).
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Figure 3. Lathrop, J.m. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. Plate 22. 1905. scale: 1 inch= 245 feet (approximately).
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Figure 4. sanborn map Company. Insurance Maps of Princeton, New Jersey. 1906.
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Figure 8. Composite map of the Proposed morven Tract Historic district Based on the Historic map data of 1905, 1906, 1911, 1927 and 1943. Colors indicate date of the earliest map on which the building appears.
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HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL DOCUMENTATION: THE MORVEN TRACT HISTORIC DISTRICT
Lane; 40 Bayard Lane, built in 1874 for William A. Dod (related to the Stocktons by marriage); and 56 Bayard Lane, built for Mary Elizabeth Hodge Scott in 1887 on a lot sold to her by the Major (her brother-in-law) the same year. Construction on the new lots began slowly. A Sanborn fire insurance map of Princeton published in 1895 (not reproduced here) did not extend its coverage into the new neighborhood, showing only Bayard Lane buildings. Land to the west was labeled Vacant Beyond. The 1902 Sanborn map was similar, although Boudinot, Library and Hodge were shown and named. However, the situation had changed dramatically by 1905 when a detailed map was produced by J.M. Lathrop showing buildings, lots and the names of the owners of both (Figure 3). By this time there were 25 houses standing in the district, mostly on the outer streets: Bayard Lane was fully built, the southern end of Library Place nearly so. The northwestern corner of Morven Place and Boudinot Street was occupied by a large lot labeled S.W. Stockton Est.; the Major had died in 1899. The former gardeners cottage was likewise labeled, as was the vacant lot that is now 159 Library Place. This latter property was surrounded by six other vacant parcels awaiting the spread of development two just to its south, one just east, and three across the street on Library Place. The following year, 1906, the Sanborn Map Company published another map (Figure 4). Comparison of the Sanborn map of 1906 with the Lathrop map of 1905 is revealing: seven more houses were shown that were not on the 1905 map two each on Library Place, Boudinot and Morven Place, and one on Hodge Road. The large S.W. Stockton Est. lot on Boudinot now contained four additional houses on Morven Place and Boudinot Street. Except for six lots on Library Place, three on Boudinot and one each on Hodge Road and Morven Place, the metamorphosis of the Morven lands into a residential neighborhood was nearly complete. Six of these 11 gaps would be filled by the time the next Sanborn map was published in 1911 (Figure 5), and the last cluster of buildings, near the southeastern corner of Library Place and Boudinot Street, was complete before publication of the Sanborn map of 1927 (Figure 6). Most of the new construction after 1911 consisted of garages behind existing houses. Comparison of the Sanborn maps of 1927 and 1943 (Figures 6 and 7) shows how little change occurred subsequent to the late 1920s. Figure 8 shows graphically the early burst of development followed by slow infilling in later years. It is a composite map of the information contained in the five historic maps of 1905, 1906, 1911, 1927 and 1943 in which the colors indicate the first map on which each building appears. One interesting item of information retrievable from the Sanborn maps is the dates when domestic water service became available. Bayard Lane had a four-inch water main by 1886; water came to Library Place between Stockton and Boudinot Streets in 1895. All of Morven Place, Boudinot Street from Morven Place to Bayard Lane, Hodge Road and the northern portion of Library Place received public water service in 1902. The western block of Boudinot Street obtained its main in 1905. The early stages of residential development within the district were taking place at the same time that the College of New Jersey was transitioning into Princeton University, and events surrounding this change would affect the development of the historic district. In 1896 the College of New Jersey celebrated its Sesquicentennial by renaming itself Princeton University, but that simple statement does not do justice to the magnitude of this
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Table 1. Princeton Faculty and Staff in the Morven Tract Historic District up to 1916.
Bayard Lane Address 24 Name and Title Henry Conrad Bunn, Assistant Treasurer of Princeton University (1902 to 1904), thereafter Curator of Buildings and Grounds Charles Greene Rockwood Jr., Professor of Mathematics Charles McMillan, Professor of Civil Engineering Emeritus Willard Humphreys, instructor in Latin, Professor of German. Died 1902. William Berryman Scott, Professor of Geology Source(s) Lathrop 1905 ("H.C. Bunn"); Princeton Univeristy 1908 Lathrop 1905 ("C.G. Rockwood"); Princeton University 1908 Princeton University 1916-1917 Princeton University 1908; Craig 1981 Lathrop 1905 ("Wm B. Scott"); Princeton University 1908 Lathrop 1905 ("H.C. Bunn"); Princeton University 1908 Princeton University 1916-1917 Princeton University 1916-1917
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Boudinot Street 10 Henry Conrad Bunn, Assistant Treasurer of Princeton University (1902 to 1904), thereafter Curator of Buildings and Grounds William Franklin Willoughby, Lecturer in Jurisprudence and Politics Phillip Marshall Brown, Professor of International Law
10 15 Hodge Road 54 60
Alexander Hamilton Phillips, Professor of Mineralogy
Princeton University 1916-1917 Princeton University 1916-1917
Douglas Labaree Buffum, Professor of Romantic Languages and Literature Library Place 73 82 95 101 Henry Burchard Fine, Dean of the Departments of Science, Dod Professor of Mathematics Woodrow Wilson, Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Economy Kenneth Hamilton Condit, Instructor in Civil Engineering David Magie, Professor of Classics
Princeton University 1916-1917 Princeton University 1908; Historical Society of Princeton Princeton University 1916-1917 Princeton University 1916-1917
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Table 1. Continued
Address 101 107 118 130 133 144 148 154 Name and Title John William Basore, Assistant Professor, John Rutherfurd Preceptor in Classics James Ormsbee Murray, Dean of the Faculty. Died 1899. William Francis Magie, Dean of the Faculty, Henry Professor of Physics Henry Green Duffield, Assistant Treasurer, Treasurer Howard Crosby Warren, Stuart Professor of Psychology, Director of the Psychological Laboratory Edmund Yard Robbins, Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature Fred Neher, Professor of Organic Chemistry Source(s) Princeton University 1916-1917 Lathrop 1905 ("J.O. Murray Est."); Princeton University 1908 Oestrich 1995 Lathrop 1905 ("H.G. Duffield."); Princtone University 1908 Princeton University 1916-1917 Princeton University 1916-1917 Princeton University 1916-1917 Lathrop 1905 ("V.L. Collins"); Princeton University 1908 Princeton University 1916-1917 Princeton University 1916-1917 Princeton University 1916-1917 Lathrop 1905 ("S.R. Winans"); Princeton University 1908 Princeton University 1916-1917 Princeton University 1916-1917
Varnum Lansing Collins, preceptor, modern languages, reference librarian Morven Place 2 11 12 21 22 (illeg.) 2 Charles Freeman Williams McClure, Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology Henry Dallas Thompson, Professor of Mathematics Henry Bedinger Cornwall, Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Emeritus Samuel Ross Winans, Professor of Greek language,Dean of the Faculty Charles Henry Smyth, Jr., Professor of Geology Leroy Wiley McCay, Moore Professor of Chemistry
Sources: Lathrop 1905; Princeton University 1908, 1916-1917; Craig 1981; Oestrich 1995; Historical Society of Princeton
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event. Over the course of the three-day celebration that saw the transformation of the college into a university, Princeton intended to showcase itself as an institution on a par with the finest European universities. Lectures and addresses were presented by scholars from several British and Continental universities, the implication being that these were the peers among whom Princeton was taking its place (Greiff et al. 1967:163). A secondary implication was that the town of Princeton would no longer be the home of a provincial college, but rather that of a world-class university; the names of the town and the university would henceforth be synonymous, like Cambridge or Leipzig. Princeton University soon adopted the Collegiate Gothic as its architectural style of choice in order to take on the appearance of an ancient seat of learning. A number of nationally prominent architectural firms brought the Gothic look and feel to the campus, including Cope and Stewardson and Day and Klauder. Off campus, the theme of Medieval Revival architecture widened to include Tudor half-timbered buildings such as the outbuildings for Drumthwacket and two buildings on Nassau Street in downtown Princeton, all built by Princeton alumnus and trustee Moses Taylor Pyne. Strong ties soon developed between the new neighborhood behind Morven and the university, and this may be part of the reason why some of the same architects who designed for the university were also commissioned to build in the Morven Tract. The Princeton University Catalog for 1916 listed the members of the faculty not only by name, degrees held and faculty position, but also gave their home addresses. No fewer than 18 faculty members and administrators lived within the bounds of the proposed historic district in this year (Table 1). Besides the Princeton professors and administrators known (from this source) to have lived in the district in 1916, other properties can be linked to the University with reasonable certainty by matching names on the Lathrop map of 1905 (Figure 3) with a searchable online version of the University Catalog for 1908, a document that includes brief biographical sketches of the faculty and staff. For instance, the Lathrop map shows H.C. Bunn at two adjacent properties, 24 Bayard Lane and 10 Boudinot Street; according to the Catalog, Henry Conrad Bunn was the Universitys Assistant Treasurer and later curator of buildings and grounds. By this method, believed to be reliable if conservatively applied, seven more University connections to the Morven tract were found (also listed in Table 1). Twenty years after Princeton University came into being, more than half the houses in the new neighborhood behind Morven had some connection to the University other than being home to an alumnus. The new neighborhood was an architectural tabula rasa, and it is not surprising that among a group of neighbors and future neighbors having in common a link to the new/old university, and presumably with similar levels of academic attainment and refinement of taste, they would turn to professional architects to design their new houses. If a professor at a university such as Princeton should live in a house befitting the position, on Morvens ancestral grounds, then who better to design it than the universitys architects. Thus two professors, Henry Burchard Fine and Arthur Lincoln Frothingham, commissioned houses by Cope and Stewardson, both still standing, on Library Place and Hodge Road (Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project). Other professors commissioned other architects: 82 Library Place was designed for Professor Woodrow Wilson by Edward S. Child and 52 Bayard Lane was designed for Professor Willard Humphreys by John Russell Pope. When A. Page Brown designed 56 Bayard Lane for the Scott family, Major Stocktons relatives, William Berryman Scott was already a professor of geology at the University (Princeton University 1908).
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The architecture of the district reflects the taste of these people and their times. revival styles are virtually ubiquitous, including half-timbered Tudor revival, stone Collegiate gothic revival, and what may be called Cottage revival. However, if Princeton universitys architects brought a certain old World flavor which spread to the developing neighborhoods, in town, having once been a Colonial village, Colonial architecture never went entirely out of style. The Colonial revival house soon became a mainstay of the towns domestic streetscapes. of the initial surge of building represented by the sanborn map of 1906 (Figure 4), more than a dozen examples are found of two-story, three- or five-bay houses with central entries (often sheltered by a onebay entrance porch supported on columns), with a gabled or gambrel roof. Full-height pilasters often accent the main block of the house. The Colonial revival style and its many variations in form and detail would remain popular in Princeton well into the 20th century, thanks in large part to local architect rolf Bauhan who worked extensively in the style throughout his career, extending from about 1920 to his death in 1966 (Croll n.d.). significantly, it was these years when the neighborhood was being populated by professors and deans, and others of similar means, that saw the tract virtually built out in its entirety. review of the sanborn insurance map of 1911 (Figure 5) shows less than half-a-dozen empty lots that would later have houses built on or moved onto them, four on the south side of Boudinot street and one almost adjacent at 101 Library Place. In other words, the morven Tract had nearly attained its present appearance before World War I, and few modern buildings have been constructed since then to change this.
4. moveD bUILDInGS
six houses in the proposed morven Tract Historic district are known to have been moved from elsewhere in Princeton: 20 Bayard Lane, also known as the Peacock Inn, was probably built in the late 18th century on the south side of nassau street, where Holder or madison Halls now stand. It was moved to its present location circa 1875 to make way for the construction of the university Hotel at the corner of nassau street and university Place (Federal Highway administration 1984:103). 24 Bayard Lane, the next house north on Bayard Lane, was built on nassau street two doors west of the First Presbyterian Church in 1855. It too was moved to make way for the university Hotel, circa 1875. It was moved to its present location in 1902 (Federal Highway administration 1984:105). 16 Boudinot Street was built by Charles steadman, Princetons noted 19th-century carpenter/builder, in 1832 at 38 Washington road, today the site of the fountain in front of the Woodrow Wilson school (also known as the yamasaki Building). It was moved to the Boudinot street location in 1930. 144 Library Place, dating from the 1870s, originally stood at 14 university Place, where it was home to the Cottage Club and Tiger Inn. It was moved to its present location in 1908.
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162 Library Place originally stood at the northeast corner of Library Place and stockton street, where in 1905 it was identified on the Lathrop map as susan d. Brown est. The house was dismantled and moved to its present site by William r. matthews, builder, who published photographs of it at both locations in his advertisements in the Princeton Press. 12 Morven Place, also known as the dr. samuel Ladd Howell House, was also built by Charles steadman, circa 1820-1830. It stood at 51 nassau street, immediately west of the First Presbyterian Church. It was moved to its present site in 1905, reportedly to improve the view of alexander Hall (Hand n.d.). Its handsome iron fence is even more widely traveled. It stood at nassau Hall until 1838, then at the second Presbyterian Church at the corner of nassau and Chambers streets. It was moved here in 1965 (greiff et al. 1967).
5. ArCHITeCTS
The work of at least nine architects or architectural firms is represented by 17 houses in the proposed morven Tract Historic district. several designed other buildings elsewhere in Princeton, some (but not all) of which are noted here. Future research may reveal works by other architects, and possibly more houses in the district by those listed here. represented architects are as follows:
Louis Carter Baker, Jr. of Dallett & Baker, Philadelphia Louis Carter Baker, Jr. (1859-1915) was a native of Camden, new Jersey and a graduate of Princeton university, Class of 1880. He joined the firm of Furness & evans in Philadelphia in the year of his graduation and became a partner in 1886. Two years later, he and elijah James dallett, also a partner at Furness, left to found the firm of dallett & Baker. The firm was active in the Philadelphia area until its dissolution in 1912, after which Baker moved his office to Wilmington, delaware (Philadelphia architects and Buildings). Baker designed two houses in the historic district, his parents home at 87 Library Place about 1899, and the J.P. Cuyler studio at 95 Library Place in 1898. Cuyler was married to Bakers sister (Historical society of Princeton, rose Collection; Lee 1907:713).
Barney & Banwell W. Pope Barney (1890-1970) and roy Banwell (1893-1973) were both university of Pennsylvania graduates and both had been employed by the firm of day and Klauder in Philadelphia. Barney & Banwell designed many church buildings for the Church of Christian science, including Princetons First Church of Christ scientist at 16 Bayard Lane in 1950 (Philadelphia architects and Buildings).
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A.(rthur) Page Brown arthur Page Brown was born in 1859 in adams, new york, a few miles east of Lake ontario, and attended Cornell university for about a year. after working as a draftsman for mcKim, mead and White in new york City, he opened his own architecture office in new york in 1884. He moved to California in 1889 and was the Principal in the firm of a. Page Brown, architect. He tends to be better known for his California work than for his east Coast projects. He died as the result of a runaway horse and buggy accident in 1896 at age 36 (Parry n.d.). Before leaving for California (and before the neighborhood became a showplace for Colonial revival houses), Brown designed the shingle style house at 56 Bayard Lane in 1887 for mary elizabeth Hodge scott, widowed sister-in-law of samuel Witham stockton. stockton, who still owned morven at that time, had sold her the lot the same year (greiff and gunning 2004:139-140).
Edward S. Child The facts of the life of edward s. Child are sketchy. He is believed to have been born in 1859. With a.C. Child (relationship unknown) he operated the national architects union; the firm probably sold packaged house plans. The national architects union had offices in Philadelphia beginning in 1890, although by 1893 there was also an office in new york, where edward Childs office was located. In new york he was in business with guyon degoll from at least 1894 to 1900 (Philadelphia architects and Buildings). In 1895 Professor Woodrow Wilson commissioned Child to design the house at 82 Library Place. This was Wilsons home until he moved to Prospect in 1902 upon ascending to the Presidency of the university (Historical society of Princeton).
Cope and Stewardson Walter Cope (1860-1902) and John stewardson (1858-1896) founded their eponymous partnership in 1885. Cope had worked in the offices of Theophilus Chandler and addison Hutton; stewardson, a Philadelphian, had studied at the cole des Beaux arts, after which he worked for Chandler and then for Furness & evans. Cope and stewardson is perhaps best know known for designing collegiate buildings and campuses, including their work at Bryn mawr, the university of Pennsylvania, Washington university and Princeton. In the historic district the firm designed houses for Professor H.B. Fine at 73 Library Place in 1897-98, a.L. Frothingham at 50 Hodge road in 1898 and dr. david magie at 94-104 Library Place in 1901(embury 1909; Princeton History 1989; Philadelphia architects and Buildings). all were designed after stewardsons death, and all three are in distinctly different styles.
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William Harris virtually nothing is known of the life and career of William Harris. samuel Witham stockton hired him to design the house at 34 Bayard Lane, built in 1877 as a rental property (Craig 1981:48; Federal Highway administration 1984:109).
John Russell Pope John russell Pope was born in 1874. Following his graduation from Columbia university in 1894, he studied at the american academy in rome and traveled extensively in Italy and greece. He enrolled in the cole des Beaux arts in 1896 and returned to the united states in 1900, establishing his architectural practice the same year. In 1902 he designed the brick georgian revival house at 52 Bayard Lane for Professor Willard Humphreys. The new house burned the same year and was rebuilt from the same plans in 1903 (great Buildings online, Federal Highway administration p. 113). among the better-known of Popes later works are the Thomas Jefferson memorial, the national archives and the national gallery of art, all in Washington, d.C. Pope died in 1937.
Charles Steadman Charles steadman, born in 1790, was a 19th-century builder-architect and Princetons first developer. Library Place below stockton was originally known as steadman street and a focus of his building activity. Typically he would purchase and subdivide a tract of land, then build houses on the lots to sell or rent, combining pattern book designs with his own. more than 70 buildings have been attributed to him. steadman died in 1868 before the historic district was subdivided from morven, but he designed two houses in the historic district. Both were built elsewhere in Princeton and moved here later. 16 Boudinot street was built in 1832 at 38 Washington road, and 12 morven Place was built circa 1820-1830 west of the First Presbyterian Church on nassau street. Both are more substantial than the typical steadman houses such as are found on alexander street and mercer street.
William E. Stone Willliam e. stone, born in 1865, was a new york architect who went into practice with his brother Frederick as W.e. and F.s. stone. He was a favored architect for people about to move into the new streets behind morven (greiff et al. 1967:165-166). stones practice specialized in the designing of country homes (new york Times 1905). Besides four known commissions in the historic district, probably his most visible and well-
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known Princeton work is the dutch revival former bank at the corner of nassau and Bank streets. Within the historic district he is credited with 10 Boudinot street, 35 Boudinot street, its neighbor at 117 Library Place and 32 Hodge road. stones life ended suddenly at the age of 40 when he was killed by a train at the Princeton Junction station in august of 1905. according to the New York Times, he had been in Princeton on business and was returning to new york when the accident occurred. The firm remained in business after William stones death until at least the 1920s, when young rolf Bauhan, perhaps Princetons most prolific architect of the next generation, worked there briefly (Croll n.d.:12).
6. STATemenT of SIGnIfICAnCe
Howard Crosby Butler (Princeton 92), Professor of art and archaeology at Princeton from 1901 to 1922, wrote an article in 1905 entitled Princeton: a Typical american university Town and its Beautiful architecture. His description of the towns residential sections reads like a walk through the proposed morven Tract Historic district: The village is not divided into quarters according to the interests of the citizens; the merchant, the professor and the retired professional man have adjoining gardens. The residents build on the same street according to their means, but the hand of taste is visible in almost every house. Here is a stately Colonial mansion and beside it is a roughcast cottage overgrown with climbing roses. There is a costly stone house of the elizabethan style, and beyond, an artistic combination of stucco and timber. Two styles seem to be trying titles for the supremacy in the residences of Princeton, the Colonial and the Tudor. The one may be taken to represent a perpetuation of old Princeton, and the other stands abreast with the later architectural developments of the university, though it is to be doubted if the owners have either of these thoughts in mind when they build. These two styles are capable of endless variation in material and color treatment, and as each house has a sufficient garden space about it to overcome incongruities of juxtaposition, the village becomes more and more attractive as the rivalry progresses (Butler 1905). The proposed district conveys architecturally the convergence of two major veins of the cultural life of Princeton: the veneration of historic sites, perhaps chief among them morven, home of richard stockton the signer, and the influence of Princeton university in shaping the community. It is significant in american history and architecture and possesses integrity of design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association. It is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of Princetons past and embodies the distinctive characteristics of a period. The boundary of the proposed district coincides with the morven subdivision of 1890 as shown on Figure 2, a map entitled Part of the morven Property Princeton n.J. surveyed and drawn by e. sandoz, with the exception of the southern part of the present morven property and the state of new Jersey property south of Borough Hall which are not included in the district. The district directly abuts the northern edge of mercer Hill Historic district (Figure 9).
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Morven Tract Historic District Boundary Line Figure 9. Proposed Morven Tract Historic District Boundary Superimposed over Princeton Borough Zoning Map. Source: Princeton Borough Engineering Department.
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As discussed elsewhere in this document, development of the district was the direct result of the subdivision of Morven lands in the early 1890s, at which time the new streets were laid out and the lots surveyed. This event nearly coincided with the Sesquicentennial of the College of New Jersey in 1896, at which time it changed its name to Princeton University and took steps to claim its place among the worlds great universities. Part of this effort was a conscious step backward into revivalist architectural styles, most notably the Collegiate Gothic. Development within the district took place fairly rapidly, through new construction and the moving of existing houses from elsewhere in Princeton. Nearly three-quarters of the 48 houses in the district were standing 15 years after the initial subdivision. As a result, the architecture reflects the conservative styles then locally prevalent in domestic architecture, mostly revivals of earlier styles such as Gothic and Medieval, although Colonial Revival would soon come to dominate the district. Architects and architectural firms some nationally known, some who would become so later in their careers, and others were commissioned to design at least 17 houses in the district. The names of nine are known. These include the firm of Cope and Stewardson, who designed three houses in the district as well as significant contributions to the campuses of Princeton, Bryn Mawr and the University of Pennsylvania; and John Russell Pope, who designed one house in the district early in his career and went on to design the Jefferson Memorial and the National Gallery of Art and the National Archives in Washington, D.C. The district is almost completely residential. Only Borough Hall and the Suzanne Patterson Center, the First Church of Christ Scientist and the Morven pool house, clustered near the southeastern corner of the district, are non-residential. The district maintains integrity its ability to convey its significance in several areas. Its design is virtually unchanged from the 1890 subdivision with the exception of the reconfiguration of the intersection of Library Place with Hodge Road. This occurred sometime before 1905 concurrent with the residential development of the neighborhood. The two open lots that occupy the southwestern angle of this intersection provide a key gateway to this district and contribute in an important aesthetic sense to the district's overall setting which is characterized by fashionable homes placed against a background of spacious landscaped gardens. The only other change is an event that never happened: the 1890 map showed what is now Morven Place continuing south of Boudinot Street to intersect Stockton Street but this was never built. The materials and workmanship of individual houses, while not pristine, are substantially intact. While changes have been made, on the whole these are unobtrusive. Nearly all houses retain their original siding materials (i.e., modern siding materials such as aluminum and vinyl are virtually absent). Later construction generally consists of garages, since most of the houses predate the automobile age.
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Integrity of design, material and workmanship together result in integrity of feeling, defined by the National Park Service as a propertys expression of the aesthetic or historic sense of a particular period of time. It results from the presence of physical features that, taken together, convey the propertys historic character (National Park Service 1995). The presence of a large number of residences constructed over a relatively short time period, and not significantly marred or interrupted by later structures, meets this test. Integrity of association is somewhat ephemeral; it is the link between the district (or other historic resource) and the people who created it. One method of determining integrity of association is to ask whether the persons with whom it is historically associatedin this case, the architects and builders and their clientswould recognize the district as it appears today. While the answer may be subject to interpretation (i.e., the trees are larger, there are automobiles on the streets, etc.), overall the question can be answered affirmatively. This is due in large part to the absence of primary structures that post-date the district, the major examples being Borough Hall and the First Church of Christ Scientist. As discussed elsewhere, the district is associated with two events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of Princetons past, the creation of one of Princetons first residential developments at nearly the same time the College of New Jersey was transforming itself into Princeton University. The street pattern and lot sizes established in 1890 contributed to the development of Princeton as the town grew with the new university and established the streetscapes that survive to the present. The architecture and urban design aspects of the Morven tract also would have influenced the appearance of the later neighborhoods surrounding it as they were developed. The transformation into a major university brought nationally prominent architects to Princeton, and their work was not limited to the campus (nor to this historic district). The distinctive characteristics of the period are expressed through the variety of architectural styles present in the district, most of which are revivals of earlier styles. These include Colonial Revival, Tudor Gothic Revival, and Medieval Revival. Having established that the Morven Tract is associated with significant events and individuals (notably the architects who created the neighborhood as it exists today), and that it retains integrity of design, material workmanship, feeling and association, the inevitable conclusion to be drawn is that the district possesses the quality of significance, as that term is defined in the Borough Code relating to the designation of historic resources. The Morven Tract Historic District has survived more than a century of change to its surroundings as the three Princetons (Borough, Township and University) have grown, particularly since World War II, although very little of that change has come to the neighborhood itself. Streets and intersections have been improved to accommodate automobile traffic, plantings have matured and been replaced, additions and garages have been built, but thanks to the virtual absence of intrusive new construction, overwhelmingly the streetscapes are very much as they would have been before the middle of the 20th century.
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Breese, gerald 1986 Princeton University Land 1752-1984. Princeton university, Princeton, new Jersey. Butler, Howard Crosby 1905 Princeton: a Typical american university Town and its Beautiful architecture. Indoors and Out 1(3):103-120. Collins, varnum L. 1931 Princeton Past and Present. Princeton university Press, Princeton, new Jersey. Craig, robert 1981 The report of the Princeton architectural survey. Princeton Joint Historic sites Commission, Princeton, new Jersey. Croll, emily n.d. Craftsmanship, Comfort and elegance: The architecture of rolf W. Bauhan 1920-1966. Princeton History and Historical society of Princeton exhibit. http://www.princetonhistory.org/pdf/bauhan. pdf, accessed march 24, 2009. embury, aymar 1909 One Hundred Country Houses: Modern American Examples. The Century Company, new york, new york. Federal Highway administration 1984 route u.s. 206 Technical environmental study. on file, new Jersey department of Transportation, Trenton, new Jersey. great Buildings online John russell Pope. http://www.artificeimages.com/architects/John_russell_Pope.html, accessed december 4, 2008. greiff, Constance m., mary W. gibbons, and elizabeth g.C. menzies 1967 Princeton Architecture: A Pictorial History of Town and Campus. Princeton university Press, Princeton, new Jersey. greiff, Constance m., and Wanda s. gunning 2004 Morven: Memory, Myth & Reality. Historic morven, Inc., Princeton, new Jersey. Hand, susanne n.d. moved Buildings in Princeton. Princeton History and Historical society of Princeton exhibit. http://www.princetonhistory.org/museum_movedbuildings.cfm, accessed June 19, 2009.
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Princeton History 1989 http://etcweb.princeton.edu/Campuswww/otherdocs/history.html, accessed december 4, 2008. Princeton Press on file, Historical society of Princeton, Princeton, new Jersey. Princeton university 1908 General Catalogue of Princeton University. Princeton university, Princeton, new Jersey. 1916-17 Catalogue of Princeton University, One Hundred And Seventieth Year, 1916-1917. Princeton university, Princeton, new Jersey. sanborn map Company. 1906 Insurance Maps of Princeton, New Jersey. sanborn map Company, new york, new york. 1911 Insurance Maps of Princeton, New Jersey. sanborn map Company, new york, new york. 1927 Insurance Maps of Princeton, New Jersey. sanborn map Company, new york, new york. 1943 Insurance Maps of Princeton, New Jersey. sanborn map Company, new york, new york. sandoz, ernest 1890 map of the morven Property Princeton n.J. on file, Firestone Library, Princeton university, Princeton, new Jersey. Town Topics 2004 Henry W. Jandl. Town Topics. vol. LvIII, no. 5, February 4, 2004. http://www.towntopics.com/ feb0404/obits.html#obit9, accessed november 10, 2009.
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Appendix A ArCHITeCTUrAL SUrveY formS
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Historic Preservation Office
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Property Name: First Church of Christ Scientist Street Address: Street #: 16
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Street Name: Bayard MERCER Princeton Borough
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Block(s): 12.01 USGS Quad: Princeton
Lot(s): 23
One of a handful of non-residential buildings in the district and among the last built, for which reasons it does not contribute to the district's significance. The church is brick veneer, one story with a gabled roof facing Bayard Lane.
Registration and Status Dates:
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SHPO Opinion: Legal Designation: Other Designation: Other Designation Date:
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Built in 1950, according to the church's website. Designed by the Philadelphia architectural firm of Barney & Banwell. Historic maps indicate it is the only building to have stood here; previously the lot was the side yard of 10 Bayard Lane.
More Research Needed?
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No Historic District Name: Morven Tract Historic District Key Contributing Contributing X Non Contributing Yes X No
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Route U.S. 206 Section (5) Technical Environmental Study (1984) Craig et al, Princeton Historic Sites Survey (1980) Hand, "Moved Buildings in Princeton." Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905).
Property 1f in Route 206 TES; Property 1-I3 in Princeton survey. "Peacock Inn" on 1911 Sanborn map. Probably dates from third quarter of the 18th century; built for Jonathan Deare, member of NJ Provincial Congress during Revolution. Moved here c. 1877-1878 from Princeton University campus. Occupied by Col. William Libbey, developer of Greenholm, 1881-1901. Moved when University Hotel built at Nassau and University Pl., 1875 (Hand). Labeled "Wm. Libbey" on Lathrop map, 1905.
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Route U.S. 206 Section (5) Technical Environmental Study (1984) Craig et al, Princeton Historic Sites Survey (1980) Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Hand, "Moved Buildings in Princeton." Princeton University, General Catalogue Published by The University, 1908 available at http://books.google.com/books?id=xWMiAAAAMAAJ
Property 1g in Route 206 TES; Property 1-I4 in Princeton Survey. Shown on 1906 Sanborn map. Constructed 1855 on Nassau Street, two doors from First Presbyterian Church; moved to make way for Holder Hall, 1878; moved to this site 1902. With 10 Boudinot, labeled "H.C. Bunn" on Lathrop map (1905). Henry Conrad Bunn was Assistant Treasurer of Princeton University from 1902 to 1904, thereafter curator of buildings and grounds (Catalog)
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The only French Second Empire house in the district, the house is two stories plus mansard roof, two large bays wide, of frame construction. Windows are 1/1. The entrance is in a one-bay, one story porch. There is a semi-hexagonal projecting bay on the front faade, first floor.
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Property 1h in Route 206 TES; Property 1-I5 in Princeton Survey. Built in 1877 as a rental property for Samuel Witham Stockton, owner of Morven at that time. Architect: William Harris (Craig p. 48; Rt. 206 TES p. 109) Labeled "C.G. Rockwood" on Lathrop map (1905). Reportedly it had a cupola, removed in 1891. Charles Greene Rockwood was professor mathematics at Princeton from 1878 to 1905 (Catalog).
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Frame, three bays wide, two stories with slate gabled roof with dentil cornice. Central entrance has oversized pedimented surround with pilasters and semi-circular fanlight. The chimney placements suggests the house's late 19th century floor plan but it was apparently heavily remodeled during the Colonial Revival era, around the time the rest of the district was being built.
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Property 1i in Route 206 TES; Property 1-I6 in Princeton Survey. Labeled "Chas. McMillan" on Lathrop map (1905). Built in 1874 for William A. Dod who was related to the Stocktons by marriage. Charles McMillan was a professor of Civil Engineering at Princeton (1916 Catalog)..
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Frame, two and a half stories, gable end to the street. Siding is wood shingle, in a variety of patterns, and clapboard. Fenestration is irregular.
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Property 1j in Route 206 TES; Property 1-I7 in Princeton Survey. Built about 1892, rented to the Elm Club in 1895 (Route 206 TES p. 111). Labeled "Mrs. M.E. Woodhull" on Lathrop map. Its style combines Shingle and Queen Anne features, resulting in a design unique in the district.
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A solidly Georgian Revival brick house, three bays wide, two stories high with hipped roof (and hipped dormers). Quoins define the corners and a water table and belt course define the lstories. Keystones highlight the window lintels. Central entry in one-bay, one-story flat-roofed porch with paired Ionic columns.
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Property 1k in Route 206 TES; Property 1-I8 in Princeton Survey. Built for Prof. Willard Humphreys in 1902; it burned in 1903 and was ebuilt using the original plans. Designed by John Russell Pope. Labeled "Mrs. Mary Humphreys" on Lathrop map. This is one of Pope's earlier works; he would go on to design the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, the National Archives and the National Gallery of Art, all in Washington, D.C.
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The best example of the Shingle Style in the historic district, the house slightly predates the Morven subdivision and visually anchors the northeastern corner of the district. It is three and a half stories, beneath a sweeping roof that extends down to the second story. Twin towers at the corners are divided by a second floor porch. Siding is clapboard and wood shingle. The full-width first floor porch has a stone parapet supporting paired Doric columns.
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Route U.S. 206 Section (5) Technical Environmental Study (1984) Craig et al, Princeton Historic Sites Survey (1980) Greiff, Constance M. and W. Gunning, Morven: Memory, Mythj and Reality Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Parry, David. Pacific Heights Architects: A. Page Brown. At http://www.classicsfproperties.com/Architecture/apagebrown.htm Princeton University, General Catalogue Published by The University, 1908 available at http://books.google.com/books?id=xWMiAAAAMAAJ
Property 1L in Route 206 TES; Property 1-I10 in Princeton Survey. Samuel Witham Stockton, owner of Morven, sold this lot to his widowed sister-in-law Mary Elizabeth Hodge Scott in 1887; the Scotts commmissioned A. Page Brown to design the house (Greiff et al, 139-140). Labeled "Wm B. Scott" on Lathrop map. Brown trained witih McKim, Mead and White, and moved to California in 1887. He died at 36 in 1896 as the esult of a carriage accident (Parry). William Berryman Scot taught geology at Princeton from 1880 until at least 1908 (Catalog).
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A simple three-bay, 1-1/2-story Colonial Revival house with gambrel roof and a broad shed dormer. Siding is wood shingle, the roof is slate. The roof overhangs the front faade more than is typical and serves to shelter the central entrance. Windows are 6/6.
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Property 1n in Route 206 TES. Built between 1911 and 1917 (TES). Lot numbering suggests the property was subdivided from its neighbor to the east (34 Bayard Lane/1 Boudinot).
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This is a rectangular 2-1/2 story house with stucco siding and a hipped roof. The entry, at the northwestern corner, is recessed from the plane of the front elevation and is within a one-story, one-bay porch. The second story overhangs the first, supported on a row of brackets. Rafter tails are exposed at the eaves. Windows tend to be grouped in two and threes.
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Route U.S. 206 Section (5) Technical Environmental Study (1984) Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Princeton Press, on file, Historical Society of Princeton. Princeton University, General Catalogue Published by The University, 1908 available at http://books.google.com/books?id=xWMiAAAAMAAJ Princeton University, Catalogue Princeton University One Hundred And Seventieth Year 1916-1917 available at http://www.archive.org/stream/catalogue62univgoog/catalogue62univgoog_djvu.txt
Property 1m in Route 206 TES. Built 1900-1905 (TES p. 117). Designed by W.E. Stone (Princeton Press.). With 24 Bayard, labeled "H.C. Bunn" on Lathrop map. A photograph of the house appears in the Princeton Press, 1909, in an advertisement for William R. Matthews, Builder. Stone was a New York architect who designed at least four houses in the historic district and the Dutch Revival former bank at the corner of Nassau and Bank Streets. Henry Conrad Bunn was Assistant Treasurer of Princeton University from 1902 to 1904, thereafter curator of buildings and grounds (1908 Catalog). In 1916 this was the home of William Franklin Willoughby, lecturer in jurisprudence and politics at Princeton (1916 Catalog).
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This is a frame, three-bay, 2-1/2-story Colonial Revival house with gambrel roof and gabled roof dormers. The entry, in the center bay, includes a fanlight and sidelights, all within a one-story flat-roofed porch with a balustrade. Most windows have multi-pane interlocking Gothic arches in the upper sash. A Palladian window dominates the first floor faade of the right-hand bay, which projects from the plane of the main block. There is a simplified Palladian grouping above it, and another full Palladian window on the left (east) elevation, presumably lighting a stair landing. Full-height pilasters accentuate the corners of the main block and the projecting bay.
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Property 1-I17 in Princeton Survey which dates it to c. 1900 (visual). Labeled "R.R. Whiting" on 1905 Lathrop map. Pre-1905 photograph during construction at Historical Society of Princeton notes it was owned by Robert Whiting in 1905.
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Brick and stucco 1-1/2 story, gable-roof house comprised of three masses: the main block faces Morven Place and features a gabled wall dormer. To the right (south) is a smaller recessed block containing the entry in a recessed porch. This block is stuccoed and there is a semihexagonal roof dormer. Behind this block, parallel to Boudinot Street, is a 1-1/2 story ell with shed dormer. Behind this is attached a one-story garage. Windows throughout are multi-paned Medieval Revival types including casements and diamond-pane.
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Craig et al, Princeton Historic Sites Survey (1980) Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Greiff, C. M. and W. Gunning. Morven: Memory, Myth & Reality. Princeton, N.J.: Historic Morven, Inc. (2004). Collins, V.L. Princeton Past and Present. Princeton University Press (1931). Princeton University, Catalogue Princeton University One Hundred And Seventieth Year 1916-1917 available at http://www.archive.org/stream/catalogue62univgoog/catalogue62univgoog_djvu.txt
Property 1-I18 in Princeton Survey. A masonry house with this footprint (minus the garage) is labeled "S.W. Stockton Est." on the Lathrop map (1905). This may have originally been the Morven gardener's house which stood just west of here (on the other side of Morven Place) in 1890 (Greiff and Gunning). Collins (p.33) says it was remodelled in the 1890s for Prof. Walter A. Wyckoff. In 1916 it was the home of Phillip Marshall Brown, Professor of International Law at Princeton (Catalog).
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This is a frame house with a gabled roof and clapboard siding comprised of a three-bay, two story main block and a smaller two-bay block to the left (east). A second ell extends west. The entry, in the left bay of the main block, includes rectangular sidelights and a transom, with pilasters, all within a one-bay, one-story flat-roofed porch with modillion cornice supported by columns. There is a similar cornice at the top of the main block. There is a detached frame garage to the rear.
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Craig et al, Princeton Historic Sites Survey (1980) Greiff, C. M., M.W. Gibbons, E.G.C. Menzies, Princeton Architecture Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967
Property 1-I19 in Princeton Survey. Built in 1832 by Charles Steadman for one of the Olden sisters at 38 Washington Rd., site of Woodrow Wilson fountain. Moved here 1930 (Greiff, pp. 84-85), the house predates the historic district but, due to its style and association with one of Princeton's earliest carpenter/builders, it contributes to the district.
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Occupying an important location nearly on axis with Morven Place, this house evokes the Medieval Revival stylistically with its broad expanses of roof (gabled and jerkinhead), large unbroken wall surfaces (stuccoed) and relatively small door and window openings, the major exception being a double-leaf garage door recessed beneath an arch on the front faade. The arched main entry is within a gabled projection and is accented by stone quoins, as are the corners of the main block. There are two arched roof dormers on the front slope of the roof.
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Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. maps, 1911 and 1927.
Built between 1911 and 1927 based on map evidence.
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This nearly-empty parcel is the rear of Morven, although it is designated a separate tax lot. Screened by a stockade fence along Boudinot Street, the lot is the site of Morven's pool and pool house, probably built in the 1950s.
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This is a three-bay, 2-1/2 story stone Colonial Revival house with gabled slate roof. The entry, with sidelights, is in the center bay, sheltered by a gabled one-bay, one-story portico supported on plain Doric columns. Windows are 8/8 on the first floor and 6/6 on the second, with shutters. There is a detached garage to the rear.
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Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. map, 1906 E. Sandoz, "Part of the Morven Property Princeton N.J." 1890.
The house first appears on historic maps in 1906; the property was part of the Samuel Witham Stockton Estate on the 1905 Lathrop map. At the time of the subdivision of Morven its stables were partly on this lot, according to the 1890 subdivision map.
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This is a three-bay, 2-1/2 story Colonial Revival house with a recessed wing to the right (west) connecting the house to a one-story garage. All are stuccoed and have gabled roofs. The entry is in the center bay of the main block, within a one-story, one-bay flat-roofed porch with Chinese-motif railings. Windows are generally 6/6, with panelled and louvered shutters.
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Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. map, 1911, 1927
Shown on Lathrop map (1905) as part of a larger lot with what is now 36 Boudinot, labeled "W. J. Magie." Historic map evidence indicates ithe house was built between 1911 and 1927.
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Property Name: McLaren/Benchley House Street Address: Street #: 35
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This is a three-bay, 2-1/2 story Colonial/Georgian Revival house with a hipped roof and roughcast stucco siding. The central entrance is beneath a two-story pedimented gable ornamented by a modillion cornice, as is the main block. Windows are generally single 8/1, although on the front faade there is a pair of these to the left of the entry and a leaded-glass, diamond-pane bay window to the right. At the top of the house is a flat deck with balustrade.
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Craig et al, Princeton Historic Sites Survey (1980) Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. map, 1906.
This is Property 1-I20 in Princeton Survey which dates it to about 1902-1906 and c. 1905; it was built for Dr. William McLaren. Like its neighbor to the east, it is not shown on the 1905 Lathrop map but does appear on 1906 Sanborn map. The Princeton survey states that it was "Apparently" designed by Fred. or William E. Stone, without attribution.
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This is a frame, 2-1/2-story house, one of the few in the district with a gable-end orientation (although others have cross-gables). The house is two bays wide in the main block, with a recessed one-story ell to the left (east). Siding is wood shingle. The main entry is within a gabled one-bay, one-story porch, in the left (east) bay of the main blockWindows are generally 6/6, with shutters. There is a detached garage at the rear.
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Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. map, 1911 and 1927.
Shown on Lathrop map with what is now 30 Boudinot as an empty lot labeled "W. J. Magie." The house was built between 1911 and 1927, based on map evidence.
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This imposing stone house, displaying features suggesting a Medieval Revival style, is composed of a main 2-1/2 story block and a smaller ell to the east (left). The main block is five major bays wide; the central bay and the two end bays project forward above the first floor and terminate in wall dormers. The main entry is in a splayed, pointed-arch opening in the central bay. Windows tend to be small, grouped, and glazed with small leaded panes. The ell is two stories and has a central gabled wall dormer. There is a detached garage to the rear.
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Craig et al, Princeton Historic Sites Survey (1980) Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Princeton Press, 12/25/09 (on file, Historical Society of Princeton) Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. map, 1906.
Property 1-I27 in Princeton Survey. The Lathrop map (1905) shows a vacant lot labeled "Isaac S. Wheaton." The present house is shown on the 1906 Sanborn map. A photograph of it appeared in the Princeton Press, 1909, in an advertisement for William R. Matthews, Builder, indicating that it was designed by W.E. and F.S. Stone. Although details of the plan are unknown, its massing suggests it could be a threebay center-hall house with period ornament.
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This is a large frame house displaying Colonial Revival elements. It is 2-1/2 stories tall and five major bays wide. The roof is hipped, with three gabled roof dormers. The entry, with a semicircular fanlight and pedimented portico, is in a projecting semi-hexagonal two-story bay slightly to the right of center. A large arched window to the left of center probably lights a stair landing. To the left of the main block is a smaller three-bay, two story wing, also with a hipped roof,
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Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 13, n. 42, p. 671 (10/19/1898) (http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/pj_display.cfm/12676) Princeton University, General Catalogue Published by The University, 1908 available at http://books.google.com/books?id=xWMiAAAAMAAJ
Labeled "A.L. Frothingham Jr." on Lathrop map (1905)' Showh on 1906 Sanborn map. Described by the Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 13, n. 42, p. 671 (10/19/1898) "on the boards" at Cope and Stewardson., the house was probably built shortly thereafter. Cope and Stewardson were nationally known architects from Philadelphia. Frothingham taught art history and archaeology at Princeton from 1886 to 1906 (Catalog).
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This is a three-bay, 2-1/2 story brick house with elements of the Shingle and Richardsonian Romanesque styles, The faade is dominated by a wood shingle roof that encompasses a full story and a half, within which are a central cross gable and two smaller gambrel roof dormers. The central entry, recessed within a large arched opening, is a Richardsonian Romanesque feature. An open porch on the right (west) end adds to the Shingle Style feel.
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Craig et al, Princeton Historic Sites Survey (1980) Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Princeton University, Catalogue Princeton University One Hundred And Seventieth Year 1916-1917 available at http://www.archive.org/stream/catalogue62univgoog/catalogue62univgoog_djvu.txt Princeton University, General Catalogue Published by The University, 1908 available at http://books.google.com/books?id=xWMiAAAAMAAJ
Property 1-I28 in Princeton Survey which dates it to c. 1890 (visual). It is labeled 'A.H. Phillips' on the Lathrop map (1905). Alexander Hamilton Phillips (Princeton 1887) is listed in the Princeton University catalog of 1908 as a professor of mineralogy and was still living here in 1916 (1916 Catalog).
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Historic District Name: Morven Tract Historic District Key Contributing X Contributing Non Contributing Yes X No

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This is a frame, 2-1/2 story gable-roof Colonial Revival house with central entrance and two flanking wings. Windows are generally 8/8. Siding is wood shingle and full-height pilasters at the corners of the main block and the wings. The entry, in the center bay, is beneath a one-story, one-bay pedimented portico supported on Doric columns and surmounted by a modillion cornice (as is the house). In an unusal design feature, there is a large oval window within a panel in the center bay at the second floor. The two wings are not as tall as the main block.
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Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Princeton University, General Catalogue (1908). At http://books.google.com/books?id=xWMiAAAAMAAJ
Labeled 'Mrs. M.H. Hall' on Lathrop map (1905). Architecturally the house contributes to the Hodge Road streetscape through is style, massing, materials and historic integrity. It was the home of Douglas Labaree Buffum, preceptor in modern languages at Princeton beginning in 1905 (Catalog).
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The house is architecurally unique within the historic district. It is 2-1/2 stories with a hipped roof that broadly overhangs the walls, the eaves of which are supported by long brackets. The entry is in a cross gable near the right (west) end of the faade; it is round-arched and is in a quoined surround. Above it are a pair of double doors and a small balcony with iron railing. Above this is a pair of round-arched windows in the attic story. Open grillwork in the stucco siding to the left of the door completes this bay. Other noteworthy design features include two projecting groups of four windows on the first floor of the main faade, and an eyebrow dormer to the left of center.
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Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. map, 1906 and 1911.
The house is on a lot that was vacant and labeled 'Mrs. Lenox Scott' on the Lathrop map (1905) Historic map evidence indicates it was built between 1906 and 1911. While the volume of the house is in scale with that of its neighbors, the style of the house is unique in the district and contributes to the district's architectural interest.
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Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905).
Vacant lot labeled "A.G. Cameron" on Lathrop map (1905). Vacant on 1906, 1911, 1927 Sanborn maps.
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Property Name: Professor Fine House Street Address: Street #: 73
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Street Name: Library MERCER Princeton Borough
Suffix: Zip Code: Block(s): 12.01 USGS Quad: 08540
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Notable for its Tudor Revival half-timbering, this is a 2-1/2 story house whose main (west) faade is dominated by two massive (and similar) cross gables above a stone first floor. Each cross gable has projecting bays of multi-paned leaded windows on the first floor and grouped (but not projecting) similar windows on the upper floors. The main entry is between the two cross gables, projected by a small gabled hood. There is a small detached garage to the rear.
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Craig et al, Princeton Historic Sites Survey (1980) Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Embury, Aymar. One Hundred Country Houses: Modern American Examples. The Century co., 1909.
Property 1-I30 in Princeton Survey. Designed by Cope & Stewardson, 1898. Labeled "Mrs. H.B. Fine" on Lathrop map (1905). The house was profiled in "One Hundred Country House" by Aymar Embury (1909). One of Princeton's outstanding Tudor Revival houses, designed by the Philadelphia firm of Cope and Stewardson for Professor Henry Burchard Fine (Princeton 1880). Fine was a professor mathematics and dean of the faculty.
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The house is 2-1/2 stories, of frame contruction, oriented with its front faade facing south. There are two full-height cross gables, one of which rises through a shed porch. There is a central glazed cupola at the ridge line.
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Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. map, 1906, 1911, 1927 and 1943
On the Sanborn maps, a carriage house (having a footprint not unlike that of the present building) is shown behind 72 Library Place in 1906, 1911 and 1927. In 1943, the carriage house was gone and the building was shown on the site of the present building, labeled as a dwelling. Its present appearance does not convey a sense of historicity.
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The house consists of a broad three-bay symmetrical mass with the entry centered under a large projecting cross gable. The first floor is stone, the second half-timbered and projecting slightly over the first. There are projecting grouped windows on the second floor flanking the cross gable. Above the entry is a group of four diamond-pane windows and four smaller windows. To the right (north) of the main block is a smaller wing, with a large Roman window on the first floor and bands of diamond-pane windows on the second. To the rear is a detached garage.
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Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Historical Society of Princeton Historic Photos (http://princetonhistory.org/historic_photos.cfm) Collins, Varnum L. Princeton Past and Present. Princeton University Press, 1931.
Woodrow Wilson commissioned Edward S. Child to build this house ih 1896 while a professor at Princeton (and living next door at 72 Library Place).. After Wilson moved to Prospect it was owned by Robert Garrett, Baltimore banker and Princeton trustee. It is labeled "Robert Garrett" on the Lathrop map (1905). There is a historic photo in the Rose collection at the Historical Society of Princeton.
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Unusual in the historic district in its four-bay width, this house is brick laid in Flemish bond. Windows are 6/9 on the first floor and 6/6 on the second, each with stone flat arches with keystones. A stone belt course divides the first floor from the second. The roof is gabled and has three gabled roof dormers. The main entrance is on the north elevation which is three bays wide. The entry is sheltered by a one-bay, one-story gabled portico. According to notes in the Rose Collection at the Historical Society of Princeton, the house was extensively remodelled in the 1920s.
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Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project (http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/)
Designed by Louis Carter Baker of Dallitt and Baker for his parents. Labeled "Mrs. L.C. Baker" on Lathrop map (1905).
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This is a stone L-shaped house with a projecting gable front at the right (north) end. It is two and a half stories, with a gabled roof. Windows are grouped and are in stone surrounds. The entry, not original (see below) is at the angle where the gable meets the main block and is in a small one-bay, one-story gabled projection. There is a small detached garage at the rear.
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The Athenaeum of Philadelphia et al. "Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project" (http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/) Embury, Aymar. One Hundred Country Houses: Modern American Examples. The Century co., 1909. Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. map, 1943 Lee, Francis Bazley. Genealogical and personal memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey (Lewis Publishing Company, 1907).
94 and 104 Library Place once comprised much of the Dr. David Magie house, designed by Cope and Stewardson in 1901 (Philadelphia Architects and Buildings). The house appeared on historic maps as late as 1943 (Sanborn). At some point thereafter the center section of the house was removed and it became two houses. 94 is the southern part, to which the main entry was added. The larger house was featured in One Hundred Country Houses: Modern American Examples by Aymar Embury in 1909. Dr. David Magie was a physician who retired to Princeton in 1901, father of David Magie, Jr. (see 101 Library Place) (Lee p. 439).
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This is one of the smaller houses in the district and is unique for its orientation at an angle to Library Place. This is said to be the result of its design by architect Louis Carter Baker for his brother-in-law, artist John P. Cuyler, for use as a studio; the facades are oriented nearly to the cardinal compass points whereas Library Place runs generally northwest-southeast. The house is is 1-1/2 stories with a tall hipped roof pierced by two gabled roof dormers on the front faade and wall dormers on the sides. There are two front entrances, beneath a full-width at-grade porch. Wall fabric is stucco. There is a detached garage at rear which appears on the 1905 Lathrop map.
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Craig et al, Princeton Historic Sites Survey (1980) Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 13, n. 28, p. 443 (7/13/1898) in The Athenaeum of Philadelphia et al."Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project" (http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/) Lee, Francis Bazley. Genealogical and personal memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey (Lewis Publishing Company, 1907). Princeton University, Catalogue Princeton University One Hundred And Seventieth Year 1916-1917 available at http://www.archive.org/stream/catalogue62univgoog/catalogue62univgoog_djvu.txt
The studio was probably built around 1898--99. It is Property 31 in the Princeton Survey. The building is labeled "J.P. Cuyler" on the Lathrop map (1905). Plans for a studio for Mr. John P. Cuyler, Princeton NJ were mentioned by architects Baker and Dallett, 7/31/98 (Philadelphia Architects and Buildings). John Potter Cuyler, an artist, was married to Louis Carter Baker's sister (Lee p. 713). In 1916 it was the home of Kenneth Hamilton Condit, instructor in Civil Engineering at Princeton (Catalogue).
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The house is three bays wide and two stories in height with the main entrance in the center bay. A high parapet nearly obscures the roof (which has three dormers), giving the house a nearly cubical appearance. First floor windows are tall casements. Full-height Corinithian pilasters divide the bays and accent the corners of the front faade. There is a detached garage to the rear.
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Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Princeton University, Catalogue Princeton University One Hundred And Seventieth Year 1916-1917 available at http://www.archive.org/stream/catalogue62univgoog/catalogue62univgoog_djvu.txt Princeton University, General Catalogue Published by The University., 1908 available at http://books.google.com/books?id=xWMiAAAAMAAJ Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. map, 1911
The house was built after 1911 based on historic map evidence (Sanborn 1911) although the lot was labeled "David Magie" on the Lathrop map (1905). In 1916 this was the home of David Magie, Jr. (Princeton 1897), preceptor and professor of classics at Princeton beginning in 1905, and John William Basore, preceptor in classics (Catalog, 1908, 1916).
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This is a stone L-shaped house with a projecting gable front at the left (sourth) end. It is two and a half stories, with a gabled roof. Windows are grouped and are in stone surrounds. The entry is at the angle where the gable meets the main block and is below a gabled wall dormer. There is a small garage at the rear.
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The Athenaeum of Philadelphia et al.Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project (http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/) Embury, Aymar. One Hundred Country Houses: Modern American Examples. The Century co., 1909. Lee, Francis Bazley. Genealogical and personal memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey (Lewis Publishing Company, 1907).
104 and 94 Library Place once comprised much of the Dr. David Magie house, designed by Cope and Stewardson in 1901 (Philadelphia Architects and Buildings). The house appeared on historic maps as late as 1943 (Sanborn). At some point thereafter the center section of the house was removed and it became two houses. 94 is the southern part, to which the main entry was added; 104 is the northern part. The complete house was featured in One Hundred Country Houses: Modern American Examples by Aymar Embury in 1909. Dr. David Magie was a physician who retired to Princeton in 1901, father of David Magie, Jr. (see 101 Library Place) (Lee p. 439).
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The house is composed of three distinct sections. The front block, facing Library Place, is essentially a three-bay, 2-1/2 story mass with a hipped roof and central cross gable, all sheathed in Spanish roofing tile. The wall fabric is stucco. To the rear of this, also stuccoed and with Spanish tile roof, is a 3-1/2 story hexagonal tower on Boudinot Street. Connected to this by a one-story hyphen with a blind arcade is a one-story, nearly rectangular and windowless structure, the parapet of which nearly obscures the roof.
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Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. map, 1927 Princeton University, Catalogue Princeton University One Hundred And Seventieth Year 1916-1917 available at http://www.archive.org/stream/catalogue62univgoog/catalogue62univgoog_djvu.txt Historical Society of Princeton Rose Collection Prentke, Richard Ottesen. A Short History of Princeton's Rowing Facilities Available at http://www.princeton.edu/~crew/features/rowing_facilities_history.html
A building with a footprint similar to the front section is labeled 'J.O. Murray Est.' on the Lathrop map (1905). This may refer to James Ormsbee Murray, professor and Dean of the Faculty at Princeton who died in 1899 (subject to verification). The 1927 Sanborn map shows the present footprint of the house; the easternmost wing is labeled "Art Gallery" but the tower was only two stories at that time. Notes in the Rose Collection indicate it was later owned by Howard Russell Butler. Butler was a graduate of Princeton (class of 1876) and played a large role in the creation of Lake Carnegie (Prentke).
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The house is brick, 2-1/2 stories tall and three bays wide. Two hipped roof dormers pierce the gabled roof of the main block. Windows are generally 12/12, with shutters. The main entry, in the center bay, is within a marble surround that features an entablature supported by columns and pilasters, sidelights and a semicircular transom. Similar two-story wings extend to the left and right of the main block; these have large segmentally-arched windows on the first floor and projecting bay windows on the second floor. A large brick ell extends to the rear (east) of the main block. There is a one-story brick natatorium northeast of the house, built within the past decade, that is not historic.
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Historical Society of Princeton, Rose Collection Princeton Press, on file, Historical Society of Princeton. Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. map, 1906
The Lathrop map (1905) labels the vacant lot "W.P. Armstrong." The house was built before 1906 (Sanborn). According to the Rose Collection and the Princeton Press, it was designed by W.E. and F.S. Stone of New York and built for Armstrong by the Matthews Construction Company.
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The Colonial Revival house is stone, five bays wide and 2-1/2 stories high with a gambrel roof. There is a pair of bridge chimneys at each end of the house. The entry, in the middle bay, includes an aarched fanlight and sidelights, all within a one-story, one-bay gabled porch with segmentally-vaulted ceiling supported by paired columns. Windows are 6/6 and there is an open porch on the right (north) side of the house. There is a detached garage to the rear.
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Oestrich, Alan E. Professor William F. Magie and the American Discovery of the Fluoroscope in American Journal of Roentgenology 165:1060-1063 (November 1995). Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905).
The 1905 Lathrop map labels the house "Mrs. W.F. Magie." William F. Magie was a graduate of Princeton (1879), later professor of physics and Dean of the Faculty. He had the house built in 1895 (Oestrich).
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Like so many of its neighbors, this Colonial Revival house is three bays wide and 2-1/2 stories tall. It has a gambrel roof with three gabled roof dormers. The entry is in the center bay, and includes sidelights; it is beneath a one-bay, one-story flat-roof porch with rooftop balustrade. Windows are generally 8/8 and 6/6. Full-height pilasters define the corners of the house. There is an open porch to the right (north) and a projecting full-height semi-hexagonal bay on the left (south) faade. There is also a rear ell, barely discernible from the street.
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Princeton University, General Catalogue Published by The University., 1908 available at http://books.google.com/books?id=xWMiAAAAMAAJ Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905).
The Lathrop map (1905) labels this house "H.G. Duffield" which may refer to Henry G. Duffield, Princeton 1881 and Assistant Treasurer and Treasurer of the University beginning in 1892 and 1901 respectively (General Catalogue).
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This is a Tudor Revival style house evocative of its three similarly-styled neighbors on Library Place. Half-timbering on the upper floors, above a stone first floor (in this case only the northern half of the house), characaterizes the style locally and generally, as do projecting cross gables (in this case two). The cross gables are similar but not identical; among other differences, half-timbering in the northern gable includes more curved members.The entry is in a small gable projection between the two larger cross gables. Fenestration is irregular.
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Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Princeton University, General Catalogue Published by The University., 1908 available at http://books.google.com/books?id=xWMiAAAAMAAJ Princeton University, Catalogue Princeton University One Hundred And Seventieth Year 1916-1917 available at http://www.archive.org/stream/catalogue62univgoog/catalogue62univgoog_djvu.txt
The Lathrop map (1905) labels the house "Jesse B. Carter." This may refer to Jesse Benedict Carter, Princeton 1893, who was instructor and professor of Latin at Princeton from 1895 until 1904 when he left to teach in Rome (1908 Catalogue). In 1916 it was the home of Howard Warren Crosby, professor of psychology and director of the psychology laboratory (1916 Catalog).
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Although like many of its neighbors this is a 2-1/2 story, three bay center hall house, it reveals its Italianate roots in its tall paired windows, round-arch window in the center bay of the second floor, and the slender paired columns supporting a one-bay porch roof, behind which is the double-leaf main entry with segmentally archedfanlight. Although the main roof is hipped, the central projecting bay is gabled. Windows are generally 1/1 or 2/2.
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Craig et al, Princeton Historic Sites Survey (1980) Collins, Princeton Past and Present Hand, Susanne. "Moved Buildings in Princeton." Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Princeton University, Catalogue Princeton University One Hundred And Seventieth Year 1916-1917 available at http://www.archive.org/stream/catalogue62univgoog/catalogue62univgoog_djvu.txt
Property 1-I32 in Princeton Survey. This house was built c. the 1870s at 14 University Place, where it was home to the Cottage Club and Tiger Inn. It was moved here in 1908 (Hand, Moved Buildings). Not surprisingly, the Lathrop map (1905) shows the present site vacant (and not labeled). In 1916 this was the home of Edmund Yard Robbins, professor of Greek Language and Literature (Catalogue).
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Like the other three Tudor Revival style houses on Library Place below Hodge Road, this house features a side-gable main block and prominent projecting cross gables, in this instance two. Equally prominent is the masonry first floor and half-timering on the upper floors. This house is 2-1/2 stories and the faade is divided into three main sections: the two cross gables, each story of which proijects beyond the one below, and the space between the which contains the main entry is a gabled one-story, one-bay porch. Each cross gable has a projecting bay window on the first floor, a pair of windows on the second and a single window in the gable peak. There is a prominent multi-paned window next to the entry whose elevation suggests it lights a stair landing. To the left (south) of the main block is a one-story porch whose wood siding, pilasters and 12/12 windows all suggest it is an addition or an alteration of the porch shown on the 1905 map.
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Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Princeton University, Catalogue Princeton University One Hundred And Seventieth Year 1916-1917 available at http://www.archive.org/stream/catalogue62univgoog/catalogue62univgoog_djvu.txt
Labeled "J.H. Neher" on Lathrop map (1905). This was the home in 1916 of Fred Neher, Princeton 1889 and Professor of Chemistry at Princeton (Catalogue). The relationship between J.H. Neher and Professor Neher is unknown.
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The Georgian Revival style house is five bays wide and two and half stories tall. The entry, with widely spaced sidelights and a rectangular transom, is in the slightly projecting central bay which is framed by full-height Ionic pilasters which rise to a cross gable with modillion cornice. There is a semi-circular attic window in the peak of the cross gable. Other windows are generally 6/6. The gabled roof is pierced by two gabled roof dormers with round-arch headed sash. There is a recessed two-story ell to the right (south) of the main block.
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Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. map, 1906, 1911
The Lathrop map (1905) shows the lot vacant and labeled "R.L. Benson." The house was built between 1906 and 1911 based on historical map evidence (Sanborns). Its style, age and massing are consistent with other houses on Library Place and elsewhere in the district.
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The house is five bays wide and 2-1/2 stories tall. It is frame with clapboard siding. The central entrance is its primary link to the Coloonial Revival style: it includes a segmental fanlight and two sidelights, all within a one-story, one-bay flat-roofed porch supported by Corinthian columns. Windows are generally 6/1 although the flanking bays on the first floor are both occupied by projecting bay windows.
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Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. map, 1906, 1911 Princeton University, General Catalogue Published by The University., 1908 available at http://books.google.com/books?id=xWMiAAAAMAAJ
The lot was vacant but labeled "V. L. Collins" on the 1905 Lathrop map. Varnum Lansing Collins, Princeton class of 1892, was a preceptor of modern languages beginning in 1906 (Catalogue). He was also the author of "Princeton Past and Present" (1931). Historic map evidence shows the house was built between 1906 and 1911 (Sanborn): it is absent from the 1906 map but shown in 1911.
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Because of this house's corner location it essentially has two front facades, one on Library Place and one on Hodge Road; architecturally they are are treated with nearly equal importance. It is brick, 2-1/2 stories tall, three bays on the west (Library Place) side and five on the north (Hodge Road) side. Quoins define the corners of the building and a slightly projecting cross gable on the west side, attached to which is a one-bay, one story entry. The north elevation features a one-story flat-roofed entry, above which is a Palladian window. A brick privacy wall between the house and Hodge Road is a feature of the streetscape.
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Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905).
The lot was vacant but labeled "S.W.S. [Samuel Witham Stockton] Est." on the 1905 Lathrop map. The house is shown on 1906 Sanborn map. The building is assessed as Key Contributing because of its prominent location at the corner of Library Place and Hodge Road.
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The house is stone, two bays wide on the Library Place elevation and most notable for its gabled roof which encompasses a full story and a half above the two story main block. The entry is recessed in an arched opening near the right (north) end of the front faade. There is a one-story ell to the north, set back from the plane of the front faade. A cross gable projects from the left (south) faade.
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Hand, Susanne. "Moved Buildings in Princeton." Princeton Press, on file, Historical Society of Princeton Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. map, 1906, 1911
This house once stood at the northeast corner of Library Place and Stockton Street (Hand, Princeton Press). Between 1906, when the lot was shown vacant (Sanborn) and 1911 it was moved, stone by stone, by William R. Matthews to this location. The Princeton Press includes photographs of it at its old and new sites in 1909. This is the last house on this side of Library Place before Hodge Road.
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This is a 2-1/2 story, three bay Georgian Revival house with the entry in the center bay. The walls are finished in stucco and there is a belt course between the first and second floors. The entry, with full-height sidelights and rectangular transom, is within a one-story, one bay porch with modillion cornice and flat roof supported by paired Doric columns. A similar cornice is at eave level of the main block. The gabled roof is pierced by three shed dormers. Windows are generally 12/12 on the first floor and 8/8 on the second.
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Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. map, 1906, 1911 Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905).
Hisroric map evidence indicates the house was built between 1906 and 1911 (Sanborn). In 1911 the house is shown, labeled to indicate it as a 2-1/2 story dwelling built of stuccoed hollow tile. The property is part of that which was the Samuel Witham Stockton estate in 1905 (Lathrop).
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This is a three-bay, 2-1/2 story frame Colonial Revial house with the entry in the center bay. The entry has sidelights and is within a onestory, one-bay porch whose flat roof is supported by paired Ionic columns. There is an iron balustrade around the porch roof. Siding is clapboard. Windows are generally 12/12 with panelled or louvered shutters. The gabled roof has a dentil cornice and one hipped roof dormer. There is a two-story ell on the right (south) side and a garage at the rear.
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Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Princeton University, General Catalogue Published by The University., 1908 available at http://books.google.com/books?id=xWMiAAAAMAAJ Princeton University, Catalogue Princeton University One Hundred And Seventieth Year 1916-1917 available at http://www.archive.org/stream/catalogue62univgoog/catalogue62univgoog_djvu.txt
The Lathrop map (1905) shows the house and labels it 'H.D. Thompson' (Lathrop). This was the home in 1916 of Henry Dallas Thompson, a graduate of Princeton (1885) and professor of mathematics beginning in 1894 (Catalog, 1908, 1916).
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This is a three-bay, 2-1/2 story frame house with clapboard siding and central entrybbut it is considerably older than its neighbors to whom the same description would apply. It was built c. 1820-1830 by Charles Steadman on Nassau Street and moved here in 1905 (see below). The entry is within a one-bay, one-story porch with a flat roof supported by Ionic columns. Windows are generally 6/6; the two flanking the entry and the one above it are in elaboratesurrounds with cornices. The wrought iron fence is an important feature of the streetscape and has historical value as well, having once stood in front of Nassau Hall..
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Craig et al, Princeton Historic Sites Survey (1980) Greiff, C.M. Princeton Architecture Hand, Moved Buildings Collins, Varnum L. Princeton Past and Present. Princeton University Press, 1931. Princeton University, Catalogue Princeton University One Hundred And Seventieth Year 1916-1917 available at http://www.archive.org/stream/catalogue62univgoog/catalogue62univgoog_djvu.txt Princeton University, General Catalogue Published by The University, 1908 available at http://books.google.com/books?id=xWMiAAAAMAAJ
This is Property 1-I35 in the Princeton Survey. The house was built c. 1820-1830 by Charles Steadman at 51 Nassau St., immediately west of the First Presbyterian Church. Known as the Cornwall house, it was moved here in 1905 to improve the view of Alexander Hall (Hand). The handsome iron fence stood at Nassau Hall in 1838, then was moved to the Second Presbyterian Church at Nassau and Chambers Streets. It was moved here in 1965 (Greiff). In 1916 this was the home of Henry Bedinger Cornwall, Princeton professor of chemistry and mineralogy emeritus since 1873 (Catalog 1908, 1916). After 1918 it was informally called "the monastery," home to a group of single professors (Collins p. 35). Collins refers to it as the home of the astronomer Stephen Alexander (p. 35); Alexander taught astronomy at Princeton from 1840 to 1854 (Catalogue 1908).
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This is a frame, 2-1/2 story Georgian Revival house, three bays wide with the entry in the center bay. The entry, with sidelights, is within a one-bay, one-story porch with a flat roof supported by square paired columns. The porch roof is enclosed by a balustrade, forming a porch reached by a door in the center bay of the second floor. Siding on the house is clapboard and full-height pilasters mark the corners. Windows are generally 15/1, with shutters. The roof is hipped and is pierced by three hipped roof dormers on the front slope. There is a garage at the rear.
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The house is shown on the Lathrop map (1905) labeled 'S.R. Winans.' This may be a reference to Samuel Ross Winans (1855-1910), Princeton class of 1874, professor of Greek and dean of the faculty from 1899 to 1903 (Catalog). Based on its style the house was probably built during the latter era.
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This is a 2-1/2 story frame Georgian Revival house with the entrance in the center bay. Siding is wood shingle and on the front elevation the second floor overhangs the first slightly. The entry, flanked by two bay windows, has two sidelights and is beneath a small pediment. Windows are generally 6/6. Paired full-height pilasters define the bays and the corners of the front elevation. The roof is gabled. There is a one-story porch to the right (north).
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Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. map, 1906, 1911 Lathrop, J.M. Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A. H. Mueller & Co. (1905). Princeton University, Catalogue Princeton University One Hundred And Seventieth Year 1916-1917 available at http://www.archive.org/stream/catalogue62univgoog/catalogue62univgoog_djvu.txt
Historic map evidence indicates the house was built circa 1906 (Sanborn). It was absent from the Lathrop map (1905), the land then having been part of the Samuel Witham Stockton estate, but shown on the 1906 Sanborn map. The maps also show that the one-story porch on the right (north) side was added between 1906 and 1911. In 1916 it was the home of Charles Henry Smyth, Jr., Professor of Geology (Catalog).
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The house is a 2-1/2 story, three-bay Georgian Revival style structure with the entry in the center bay. It is frame with wood shingle siding. The entry (with sidelights) is within a recessed bay framed by full-height pilasters supporting a portico with a demi-lune in the gable peak. On the second floor of the center bay is a small balcony, also within the recess. Projecting bay windows flank the entry on the first floor. There is a garage to the rear.
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The Lathrop map (1905) shows a house at or near this location, the only building on the "S.W. Stockton Est." property which occupied the southeastern part of this block. Stockton had been the last of his family to own Morven. In 1916 it was the home of Charles Freeman Williams McClure, professor of zoology (Catalog).
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A single story, brick municipal building accessed by means of a double tiered concrete staircase leading to the building's central brick and glass arcade. The rear of the borough hall property is taken up by the more recently constructed Suzanne Patterson building. Also situated on the property is a monument incorporating the bell of the U.S.S. Princeton, the first screw powered steam vessel to be commissioned in the United States Navy.
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"Borough on the Move" Trenton Evening Times, August 23, 1967:5 Eric Quinones. "Emeritus Professor of Architecutre Henry Jandl Dies." Princeton Weekly Bulletin. February 9, 2004 (Web Edition).
Completed in 1967 at a cost of $685,000, the Princeton Borough Hall was designed by Henry W. Jandl, an influential member of the faculty of Princeton University's School of Architecture from 1940 to 1975. The new buillding replaced an earlier Borough Hall which stood at 50 Stockton Street. The property on which the current Borough Hall now stands was the site of "The Princeton Inn." This imposing, threestory, brick Italianate building was subsequently occupied by "Mrs. Fine's School," a girls' preparatory school which would become one of the predecessors of the Princeton Day School.
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Appendix b reSUmeS
HUNTER RESEARCH
Richard W. Hunter PRESIDENT Ian C. Burrow VICE PRESIDENT
CHARLES H. ASHTON Architectural Historian, M. S. EDUCATION M.S., Historic Preservation, Columbia University, New York, New York, 1977 B.A., American Studies, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 1974
EXPERIENCE 2002present Architectural Historian Hunter Research, Inc., Trenton, NJ Technical and managerial responsibilities for survey, evaluation and recording of selected Historic Architectural projects. Participation in: Historic structures survey and evaluation Overall site direction and day-to-day management Oversight of historical and archival research for all company projects Report and proposal preparation
2001-2002
Independent Historic Preservation Consultant Research, writing, photography Desktop publishing Contractual oversight of publicly-funded preservation projects
1985-2001
Principal Environmental Specialist New Jersey Department of Transportation, Trenton, New Jersey
Ensured that highway projects (in one of six DOT regions) complied with state and federal laws and regulations protecting historic and prehistoric resources.
identification and evaluation of potentially significant resources coordination with federal officials, project managers, engineers and interested citizens in evaluations of historic significance and in efforts to avoid or mitigate projects effects project manager of statewide consultant survey to identify historic bridges
1985
Historian National Park Service, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Designed and implemented Oracle database management system to track projects qualifying for Federal tax incentives for restoration of historic buildings. Temporary position.
1980-1985
Director of Surveys Heritage Studies, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey Conducted and/or directed evaluations and inventories of historic resources for public and private clients. Client liaison
Recruiting and supervising field staff Research, photography, report writing and production. Preparation of nominations to the National Register of Historic Places Project manager for award-winning statewide survey of historic railroad stations and inventory of historic buildings of Ocean County, New Jersey.
1977-1980
Director of Surveys and Registration Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, Montpelier, Vermont
Directed full-time and seasonal staff of up to 15 in statewide inventory of historic buildings. Recruiting, training, assigning work, reviewing completed assignments. Researched and wrote and/or assigned and reviewed nominations to the National Register of Historic Places. Public liaison
HUNTER RESEARCH
Richard W. Hunter PRESIDENT Ian C. Burrow VICE PRESIDENT
RICHARD W. HUNTER President/Principal Archaeologist, Ph.D., RPA EDUCATION Ph.D., Geography, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1999. Dissertation Title: Patterns of Mill Siting and Materials Processing: A Historical Geography of Water-Powered Industry in Central New Jersey M.A., Archaeological Science, University of Bradford, England, 1975 B.A., Archaeology and Geography, University of Birmingham, England, 1973
EXPERIENCE 1986-present President/Principal Archaeologist Hunter Research, Inc., Trenton, NJ Founder and principal stockholder of firm providing archaeological and historical research, survey, excavation, evaluation, and report preparation services in the Northeastern United States. Specific expertise in historical and industrial archaeology (mills, iron and steel manufacture, pottery manufacture), historical geography, historic landscape analysis. Participation in: Project management, budgeting and scheduling Proposal preparation and client negotiation Hiring and supervision of personnel Supervision of research, fieldwork, analysis and report preparation 1999-present Faculty Member, Certificate in Historic Preservation Office of Continuing Education, Drew University, Madison, NJ Courses: The Role of Archaeology in Preservation; 25 Years of Public Archaeology in New Jersey 1983-1986 Vice-President/Archaeologist Heritage Studies, Inc., Princeton, NJ Principal in charge of archaeological projects. Responsibilities included: Survey, excavation, analysis, and reports Client solicitation, negotiation, and liaison Project planning, budgeting, and scheduling Recruitment and supervision of personnel 1981-1983 Principal Archaeologist Cultural Resource Group, Louis Berger & Associates, Inc., East Orange, NJ Directed historical and industrial archaeological work on major cultural resource surveys and mitigation projects in the Mid-Atlantic region. Primary responsibility for report preparation and editing. 1979-1981 Archaeological Consultant, Hopewell, NJ
RICHARD W. HUNTER
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1978-1981
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and Archaeology, Douglass College, Rutgers University, NJ Research Editor Arete Publishing Company, Princeton, NJ Prepared and edited archaeological, anthropological, and geographical encyclopedia entries (Academic American Encyclopedia, 1980).
1978-1979
1974-1977
Archaeological Field Officer Northampton Development Corporation, Northampton, England Supervised archaeological salvage projects executed prior development of the medieval town of Northampton (pop. 230,000). Experience included: Monitoring of construction activity Supervision of large scale urban excavations Processing of stratigraphic data and artifacts Preparation of publication materials to
1969-1970
Research Assistant Department of Planning and Transportation, Greater London Council
SPECIAL SKILLS AND INTERESTS
water powered mill sites iron and steel manufacture before the Industrial Revolution historic cartography scientific methods in archaeology historic research interpretation and public outreach
PUBLICATIONS Keeping the Public in Public Archaeology. In: Historic Preservation Bulletin, pp. 6-9. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Parks and Forestry, Historic Preservation Office [2004]. A Coxon Waster Dump of the Mid-1860s, Sampled in Trenton, New Jersey. In: Ceramics in America, edited by Robert Hunter, pp. 241-244. University Press of New England [2003] The Richards Face Shades of an Eighteenth-Century American Bellarmine. In: Ceramics in America, edited by Robert Hunter, pp. 259-261. University Press of New England [2003] The Pottery Decorating Shop of the Mayer Arsenal Pottery Company. Trenton Potteries 4(2):17 [2003]. Minutes of the Potters Union (Part 2). Trenton Potteries 4(1):1-5 [2003]. Minutes of the Potters Union (Part I). Trenton Potteries 3(4):1-5 [2002]. Eighteenth-Century Stoneware Kiln of William Richards Found on the Lamberton Waterfront, Trenton, New Jersey. In: Ceramics in America, edited by Robert Hunter, pp. 239-243. University Press of New England [2001] William Richards Stoneware Pottery Discovered! Trenton Potteries 1(3):1-3 [2000].
RICHARD W. HUNTER
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Trenton Re-Makes: Reviving the City by the Falls of the Delaware. Preservation Perspective XVIII (2): 1, 3-5 [1999] "Mitigating Effects on an Industrial Pottery." CRM 21(9):25-26 [1998] (with Patricia Madrigal) From Teacups to Toilets: A Century of Industrial Pottery in Trenton, Circa 1850 to 1940, Teachers Guide sponsored by the New Jersey Department of Transportation, 1997 (with Patricia Madrigal and Wilson Creative Marketing) "Pretty Village to Urban Place: 18th Century Trenton and Its Archaeology." New Jersey History, Volume 114, Numbers 3-4, 32-52 [Fall/Winter 1996] (with Ian Burrow) Hopewell: A Historical Geography. Township of Hopewell [1991] (with Richard L. Porter) "Contracting Archaeology? Cultural Resource Management in New Jersey, U.S.A." The Field Archaeologist (Journal of the Institute of Field Archaeologists) 12, 194-200 [March 1990] (with Ian Burrow) "American Steel in the Colonial Period: Trenton's Role in a 'Neglected' Industry." In Canal History and Technology Proceedings IX, 83-118 [1990] (with Richard L. Porter) "The Demise of Traditional Pottery Manufacture on Sourland Mountain, New Jersey, during the Industrial Revolution." Ch. 13 in Domestic Potters of the Northeastern United States, 1625-1850. Studies in Historical Archaeology, Academic Press [1985]
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Registry of Professional Archeologists (RPA) [formerly Society of Professional Archeologists] (accredited 1979; certification in field research, collections research, theoretical or archival research) Preservation New Jersey (Board Member, 1994 - 2003) New Jersey State Historic Sites Review Board (Member, 1983 -1993) Professional Archaeologists of New York City (PANYC) Society for Historical Archaeology Society for Industrial Archaeology Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology Archaeological Society of New Jersey (Life Member) Mount Hope Historical Conservancy (Board Member, 1995 - 2000)
OTHER AFFILIATIONS Trenton Downtown Association (Board Member, 1998 - present) Hopewell Township Historic Preservation Commission (Member, 1998 - present)

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THe mOrVeN TrAcT HISTOrIc DISTrIcT PrINceTON bOrOUGH mercer cOUNTY, NeW JerSeY HISTOrIcAL AND ArcHITecTUrAL DOcUmeNTATION

Prepared for: Friends of the Western Section

Prepared by: Charles H. Ashton Richard W. Hunter

LIST of fIGUreS, PLATeS AnD TAbLeS

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL DOCUMENTATION: THE MORVEN TRACT HISTORIC DISTRICT

HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL DOCUMENTATION: THE MORVEN TRACT HISTORIC DISTRICT

Alexander Hamilton Phillips, Professor of Mineralogy

Princeton University 1916-1917 Princeton University 1916-1917

HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL DOCUMENTATION: THE MORVEN TRACT HISTORIC DISTRICT

HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL DOCUMENTATION: THE MORVEN TRACT HISTORIC DISTRICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL DOCUMENTATION: THE MORVEN TRACT HISTORIC DISTRICT

HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL DOCUMENTATION: THE MORVEN TRACT HISTORIC DISTRICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

HISTorICAL AnD ArCHITeCTUrAL DoCUmenTATIon: THe morven TrACT HISTorIC DISTrICT

Appendix A ArCHITeCTUrAL SUrveY formS

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Historic Preservation Office

BASE SURVEY FORM

Prefix: County(s): Municipality(s): Local Place Name(s): Ownership: Description:

Street Name: Bayard MERCER Princeton Borough

Suffix: Zip Code: 08540

Block(s): 12.01 USGS Quad: Princeton

Registration and Status Dates:

National Historic Landmark: National Register: New Jersey Register:

SHPO Opinion: Legal Designation: Other Designation: Other Designation Date:

Determination of Eligibility: Photograph:

Survey Name: Surveyor: Organization:

Morven Tract Historic District C. Ashton Hunter Research, Inc.

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Historic Preservation Office

BASE SURVEY FORM

More Research Needed?

Associated Archaeological Site/Deposits?

Survey Name: Surveyor: Organization:

Morven Tract Historic District C. Ashton Hunter Research, Inc.

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Historic Preservation Office

BASE SURVEY FORM

Prefix: County(s): Municipality(s): Local Place Name(s): Ownership: Description:

Street Name: Bayard MERCER Princeton Borough

Suffix: Zip Code: 08540

Block(s): 12.01 USGS Quad: Princeton

Registration and Status Dates:

National Historic Landmark: National Register: New Jersey Register: