Morven, known officially as Morven Museum & Garden, is a historic house at 55 Stockton Street in the Borough of Princeton, New Jersey, United States.
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In 1701, Richard Stockton purchased, from William Penn, the 5,500-acre (22 km2). Commodore Robert Stockton (1795-1869) 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.[3]
In 1944, New Jersey Governor Walter E. Edge purchased Morven, from the Stockton family. The sale was subject to the condition, that Morven would be given to the state of New Jersey within two years of Edge’s death.[4] Edge ultimately transferred possession of Morven to the state during 1954, several years before he died.[5] Morven then served as the New Jersey's first Governor’s Mansion until 1981.
During 1982, the New Jersey Governor’s Mansion was re-designated to Drumthwacket, and Morven became a museum.
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- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2006-03-15. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ "Morven". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. 2008-06-23. http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1117&ResourceType=Building.
- ^ "Edge Buys Historic Mansion at Princeton; Governor Will Later Give it to New Jersey", The New York Times, Nov. 11, 1944, p. 15
- ^ Edge, Water Evans, A Jerseyman's Journal, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press 1948
- ^ "Jersey Acquires Estate of Edge", The New York Times, Jan. 28, 1954, p. 29
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