The Historical Preservation in Princeton Boro (HPRC)
The role of the HPRC is to foster the preservation of historic sites and districts for the education, pleasure, and welfare of the people of Princeton. Its activities include: preparing nominations of individual buildings or districts for listing on the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places; assisting in the preparation of Borough ordinances establishing local historic sites and districts (of which there are currently four); advising the Princeton Regional Planning Board and the Princeton Borough Zoning Board of Adjustment on proposed developments within local historic districts; reviewing exterior alterations to buildings within the local historic districts, and reviewing proposed demolition of structures within these districts. In such reviews, the HPRC considers each project's visual compatibility with the buildings and streetscape of the local historic district. http://www.princetonhistoricpreservation.org/
Albert Einstein's house,
112 Mercer Street, a white frame two-story house with large front porch in Greek revival style where the physicist lived from the time he was ousted from his job by the Nazis and joined the Institute for Advanced Study in 1933 until his death in 1955. Not open to the public.www.princetoninfo.com/einstein.html
Woodrow Wilson houses at 72 and
82 Library Placeand
25 Cleveland Lane, not open to the public. As university president he lived in Prospect House on campus. He was elected to be governor of New Jersey, then in 1912 to the presidency of the United States.
Grover Cleveland's house Westland,
15 Hodge Road, not open to the public. "Westland" had built for Caroline Stockton Dod in 1854 and Cleveland lived there from 1896 until his death in 1908.
Paul Robeson's House ,
110 Witherspoon Street, at the corner of
Green Street, not open to the public. He left Princeton at age eight, graduated from Rutgers and Columbia Law School, and was a singer, actor, athlete, and activist (www.princetoninfo.com/199804/80408p02.html)
Springdale,
86 Mercer Street, built in 1846 by the Stockton’s and now occupied by the president of Princeton Theological Seminary, Thomas W. Gillespie.
Hopewell Museum,
28 East Broad Street, 609-466-0103: Located in a Victorian house, the museum has antique clothing, furniture, weapons and a particularly strong collection of Native American artifacts. Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m. 2 week reservation needed.
, 609-466-0103: Located in a Victorian house, the museum has antique clothing, furniture, weapons and a particularly strong collection of Native American artifacts. Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m. 2 week reservation needed.
, 609-466-0103: Located in a Victorian house, the museum has antique clothing, furniture, weapons and a particularly strong collection of Native American artifacts. Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m. 2 week reservation needed.
, 609-466-0103: Located in a Victorian house, the museum has antique clothing, furniture, weapons and a particularly strong collection of Native American artifacts. Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m. 2 week reservation needed.
, 609-466-0103: Located in a Victorian house, the museum has antique clothing, furniture, weapons and a particularly strong collection of Native American artifacts. Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m. 2 week reservation needed.
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