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Morven, known officially as Morven Museum & Garden, is an historic 18th-century house at 55 Stockton Street in Princeton, New Jersey.It served as the governor's mansion for nearly four decades in the 20th century, and has been designated a National Historic Landmark for its association with Richard Stockton (1730-1781), a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) is the Princeton University gallery of art, located in Princeton, New Jersey.With a collecting history that began in 1755, the museum was formally established in 1882, and now houses over 117,000 works of art ranging from antiquity to the contemporary period.
This list of museums in New Jersey is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Pages in category "Museums in Princeton, New Jersey" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
The park is maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry, and is located on Mercer Road (Princeton Pike), about 1.5 miles south of Princeton University and 3.8 miles north of Interstate 295/95. [5] The park was established in 1946 on approximately 40 acres (0.16 km 2). [6]
The Princeton University Art Museum displays another original Peale painting, George Washington at the Battle of Princeton, which was commissioned in 1783 by the Trustees of the College of New Jersey, which is now Princeton University, the year that Princeton University Faculty Room served as the temporary U.S. capital.
Princeton Borough first established a local Jugtown Historic District in 1986. [23] The proposal submitted to the New Jersey and National Register of Historic Places consists of 23 houses representing the core of pre-1900 Jugtown, which initially disappointed the community due to its smaller size.
Tusculum is a country estate on Cherry Hill Road in Princeton, New Jersey, built in 1773 for John Witherspoon, president of Princeton University and signer of the Declaration of Independence. It is named after the Roman town of Tusculum, which was home to the country villa of Marcus Tullius Cicero. [2]