William Green House (Ewing Township, New Jersey) Explained

William Green House
Location:Metzger Drive, Ewing Township, New Jersey
Coordinates:40.2651°N -74.7774°W
Added:December 4, 1973
Refnum:73001106
Designated Other1 Name:New Jersey Register of Historic Places
Designated Other1 Abbr:NJRHP
Designated Other1 Link:New Jersey Register of Historic Places
Designated Other1 Date:September 6, 1973
Designated Other1 Number:1645[1]
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Designated Other1 Color:
  1. ffc94b

The William Green House is a historic brick farmhouse in Ewing Township of Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 1973, for its significance in agriculture and architecture.[2]

History and description

The first home on the site was built in the last decade of the 17th century. According to a privately published family monograph, the farmhouse was the home of Judge William Green, who was born in the 1600s in England and died in 1722 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.[3] The oldest parts of the current structure date to and the newest to 1830. The house is owned by the College of New Jersey, but is in a poor state of repair.[2] It has been considered an endangered historic site for over 40 years and, despite efforts taken by the college in 2006 to shore up the structure, was listed in 2015 as one of New Jersey's 10 most endangered historic sites by Preservation New Jersey.[4] [5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Mercer County . New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection – Historic Preservation Office . 2 . September 29, 2022 .
  2. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=73001106}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: William Green House ]. National Park Service. Blake. Channing . March 1973 . With
  3. Greene, Alton Lee. Greene Family Tree of Jeremiah and Anne Hartley Greene 1700-1970, spiral-bound monograph published some time after 1970 by Claude Greene, Pineville, Louisiana, 125 pp.
  4. Web site: William Green House at the College of New Jersey . Rikki . Massand . Preservation New Jersey.
  5. Web site: TCNJ, preservationists at odds over future of 1730s farmhouse. NJ.com. November 21, 2017.