The Coach House on Lovers Lane - one of the "outbuildings" on the tour!The Historical Society of Princeton holds its 8th annual Historical House Tour on Saturday, November 7, from 10am -4pm. This year features a terrific line-up of homes, including five that were originally outbuildings for Drumthwacket (the beautiful NJ Governor’s mansion!) at the turn of the 20th century.
Financier and Princeton University alum Moses Taylor Pyne had purchased Drumthwacket from Charles Smith Olden’s estate in 1893 and expanded the estate to more than 300 acres (including the entire area between Stockton St., Princeton Pike, Lover’s Lane and Quaker Road in Princeton). He created “…park-like landscaping, greenhouses, bridle paths, a dairy farm, and formal Italian gardens…” and commissioned the construction of fabulous buildings, including the Dairy, the Superintendent's House, the Greenhouse, the Coach House, the Garden House – all now privately owned homes which are included in this year’s House Tour. Tickets for the House Tour, a fundraiser for the Historical Society, are $35 per person. For tickets, Click Here .
The Historical Society also invites you to become a Docent for House Tour 2009! Click Here
House tour participants can also choose to lunch at Drumthwacket, the beautiful mansion that is the official residence of NJ's Governor. The boxed lunches, priced at $20.00, will be provided by Griggstown Quail Farm. Visitors that day can also opt to visit the building and gardens of Drumthwacket without the lunch (a rare Saturday opportununity!) for a $5.00 donation. Advanced registration is required for either the lunch or the visit. [Purchase of the Historical Society's house tour tickets are required in order to visit Drumthwacket on this day.] Click Here for information and the reservation form for the Drumthwacket lunch and open house or make reservations by phone at 609-683-0057.
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