Governor William Livingston House | |
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| Location | Morris and North Avenues, Union, New Jersey |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 40°40′42″N 74°13′43″W / 40.67833°N 74.22861°W |
| Area | 140 acres (57 ha) |
| Built | 1772 |
| NRHP reference No. | 72000807[1] |
| NJRHP No. | 2732[2] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | November 28, 1972 |
| Designated NHL | November 28, 1972[3] |
| Designated NJRHP | November 28, 1972 |
Liberty Hall, also known as the Governor William Livingston House, located on Morris Avenue in Union, Union County, New Jersey, United States, is a historic home where many leading influential people lived. It was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) in 1938.[4] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark on November 28, 1972, for its significance in politics and government.[5] It is now the Liberty Hall Museum.
Originally a fourteen-room Georgian-style house, it was built in 1772. Liberty Hall stands today as a fifty-room Victorian Italianate mansion. Liberty Hall has been home to many historical figures and was the home of William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey, who served from 1776 to 1790; United States Supreme Court Justice Henry Brockholst Livingston; the Kean political dynasty, including Susan Livingston Kean, widow of Continental Congress delegate John Kean, United States Senator and Congressman John Kean, and Captain John Kean, son of United States Senator Hamilton Fish Kean; and, in its first year of occupancy, future Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. Liberty Hall has had visitors of such stature as George Washington, Martha Washington, Lewis Morris, Marquis de Lafayette, Elias Boudinot, and John Jay, the latter of whom was married there.
The Liberty Hall Museum is located on the Liberty Hall Campus of Kean University in Union, New Jersey between the campus' Main Campus in Union and East Campus in Hillside, New Jersey.
- ^ "National Register Information System – (#72000807)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Union County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection – Historic Preservation Office. June 22, 2023. p. 14.
Listed as Liberty Hall (Governor William Livingston House)
- ^ "Livingston, William, House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. June 23, 2008. Archived from the original on February 25, 2009.
- ^ "Liberty Hall". Historic American Buildings Survey. 1938.
- ^ Snell, Charles W. (April 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Governor William Livingston House, "Liberty Hall"". National Park Service. With accompanying 4 photos