Hours
Daily 12:30 to 4 p.m. |
 Birthplace and home of Richard
Stockton, a signer of the Declaration
of Independence, this 1758
house was ransacked during the 1776-1777 British occupation of Princeton.
General Washington visited the house several times. He lunched here with
General Rochambeau on their way to Yorktown and was a guest of the
Stockton family while headquartered at nearby Rockingham in the final
days of the war. The Continental Congress was honored at a dinner in the
house celebrating the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783. On display are
changing exhibits of fine, folk and decorative arts.
Next door is the Princeton Battle Monument (Stockton Street at Route 206).
Built on the site of British defensive works, sculptor Frederick MacMonnies'
memorial was dedicated in 1922.
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