The Merchants and Drovers Tavern Museum is one of the New Jersey’s premier 19th century taverns and hotels, restored today to its 1820’s appearance.

The Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park is a memorial to inventor and businessman Thomas Alva Edison. The tower and museum were dedicated on February 11, 1938, on what would have been the inventor's 91st birthday. The museum showcases many of Thomas Edison's creations...

The Museum is dedicated to researching, preserving and informing visitors about this historically important Staten Island Community. Letters, photographs, film, art, rare books, quilts and other archaeological artifacts are among the collection. The Museum also...

Boxwood Hall, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, was the home from 1772 to 1795 of Elias Boudinot, president of the Continental Congress and a signer of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 ending the American Revolution. Boudinot and others met George Washington here for a luncheon...

Built in 1740, the Miller-Cory House stands on the "road to the mountains" in Westfield, New Jersey. The Miller-Cory House was named in honor of its two 18th century owners, both descended from the earliest settlers in this area. While the Millers and the Corys were...

Welcome to Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University, home of New Jersey’s first elected governor and signer of the Constitution, William Livingston. Built in 1772, on the eve of the American Revolution, Liberty Hall has been a silent witness to more than 200 years of...

Proprietary House in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, is the only Proprietary Governor's Mansion of the Original Thirteen Colonies still standing. Erected in 1762 in the Georgian style, it was occupied only temporarily by the royal governor, Benjamin Franklin's son William...

The Conference House (also known as "Bentley Manor") was built before 1680 and is located near the southernmost tip of New York State on Staten Island, which became known as "Billop's Point" in the eighteenth century. The Staten Island Peace Conference was held here...

Historic Richmond Town is an open-air live museum in the United States. It was formerly the county seat and commercial center which included the former courthouse of Richmond County, coterminous with the borough of Staten Island. The site also contains other former...

The Seguine Mansion, sometimes called the J. H. Seguine House, is located on Lemon Creek near the southern shore of Staten Island. The Greek Revival house is one of the few survivng examples of 19th Century life on Staten Island. It is listed on the National Register...