William Green House (Ewing Township, New Jersey)

The William Green House is a historic farmhouse in Ewing Township, New Jersey. 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 Greene, who was born in the 1600s in England and died in 1722 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.[2] The oldest parts of the current structure date to 1717 and the newest to 1830. The house is owned by the College of New Jersey but is in a poor state of repair. It has been considered an endangered historic site for over 40 years[3] 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]

William Green House
LocationMetzger Drive, Ewing Township, New Jersey
Coordinates40°15′54.2″N 74°46′38.6″W
Arealess than 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Builtca. 1717
NRHP reference No.73001106
NJRHP No.1645[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 4, 1973
Designated NJRHPSeptember 6, 1973

See also

References
  1. "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places — Mercer County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection — Historic Preservation Office. January 22, 2015.
  2. 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.
  3. Blake, Channing (March 10, 1973). "William Green House". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  4. "10 Most Endangered Historic Places in New Jersey 2015" (PDF). Preservation New Jersey.
  5. "TCNJ, preservationists at odds over future of 1730s farmhouse". NJ.com. Retrieved November 21, 2017.


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