Walter Lowrie House (Princeton, New Jersey)
Walter Lowrie House | |
Location | 83 Stockton Street, Princeton, New Jersey, United States |
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Coordinates | 40°20′46.9″N 74°40′09.3″W / 40.346361°N 74.669250°W |
Built | 1845 |
Architect | John Notman |
Architectural style | Italianate |
Part of | Princeton Historic District (ID75001143) |
Added to NRHP | 27 June 1975 |
The Walter Lowrie House is located at 83 Stockton Street in
Richard Stockton, another New Jersey Senator, and grandson of Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The latter Richard Stockton built Morven in the 18th century, which sits a short distance up Stockton Street. His grandfather's home, known as the "Barracks" is found at 32 Edgehill Street, the street which fronts the gate to the Walter Lowrie House property. It was built in the 17th century and gained its name from having served as a barracks in either the French and Indian War or the American Revolution.[1]
The Walter Lowrie House was the work of architect John Notman, who designed a number of mansions for the Stockton family including nearby Guernsey Hall and Prospect House. Notman popularized the Italianate revival architecture in the United States and his Princeton homes are prime examples of that style.[2]
The home was purchased from John P Stockton by
Kierkegaardian theologian and translator, spending his retirement in Princeton publishing academic works, including twelve volumes of Kierkegaard translations. After his death in 1959, his wife donated the home to Princeton University in memory of her husband, who had been a member of the Princeton class of 1890. It was used as a guest house by the university from 1960 to 1968 and subsequently became the official residence of the president of the university.[3] The official residence had originally been Maclean House, built 1756.[4] From 1878-1968, it had been Prospect House but was moved to Walter Lowrie House, which is off campus grounds. Prospect House then became the site of a faculty club.[5]
References
- ^ Hageman, John Frelinghuysen (1879). History of Princeton and Its Institutions, Volume 1. J.B. Lippincott & Company. p. 65.
barracks.
- ^ "CHAPTER III: PRINCETON AT MID-CENTURY, 1846-1868". Princeton University.
- ^ Leitch, Alexander (1978). A Princeton Companion. Princeton University Press.
- ^ "Princeton Historic Sites and People". Historical Society of Princeton.
- ^ "Prospect House History". Princeton University.