Morven (Princeton, New Jersey) Morven, known officially as Morven - TopicsExpress



          

Morven (Princeton, New Jersey) Morven, known officially as Morven Museum & Garden, is a historic 18th-century house at 55 Stockton Street in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. It served as the governors mansion for nearly four decades in the twentieth century, and has been designated a National Historic Landmark. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. History In 1701, Richard Stockton purchased, from William Penn, the 5,500-acre (22 km2) property. His grandson Richard Stockton (1730–1781) had 150 acres, on which he built the house that his wife Annis Boudinot Stockton named Morven, after a mythical Gaelic kingdom in Ireland. Commodore Robert Stockton (1795–1866) later lived in the house that was built on the property. Robert Wood Johnson II, chairman of the company Johnson and Johnson, leased the home after Bayard Stockton died during 1932. In 1944, New Jersey Governor Walter E. Edge purchased Morven from the...
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:40:03 +0000

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