The Homestead Farm at Oak Ridge is a historic house and 208-acre grounds in Oak Ridge Park, lying mostly in Clark Township, Union County, New Jersey, with a small extension into Edison Township, Middlesex County. The oldest part of the house was built around 1720 to 1740, and the property, formerly known as Ash Swamp, played a part in the Battle of Short Hills during the American Revolutionary War; the house is associated with Judge Hugh Hartshorne Bowne and combines Federal, Colonial and Italianate styling. It was listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1995 and the National Register of Historic Places on October 25, 1995, and in 2009 the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders voted to support preserving the site. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Homestead Farm at Oak Ridge is a historic house and 208-acre grounds in Oak Ridge Park, lying mostly in Clark Township, Union County, New Jersey, with a small extension into Edison Township, Middlesex County. The oldest part of the house was built around 1720 to 1740, and the property, formerly known as Ash Swamp, played a part in the Battle of Short Hills during the American Revolutionary War; the house is associated with Judge Hugh Hartshorne Bowne and combines Federal, Colonial and Italianate styling. It was listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1995 and the National Register of Historic Places on October 25, 1995, and in 2009 the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders voted to support preserving the site.
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The Homestead Farm at Oak Ridge is a historic house and grounds located in Oak Ridge Park in the township of Clark in Union County, New Jersey and extending into the township of Edison in Middlesex County. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 25, 1995, for its significance in architecture, exploration/settlement, law, military history, and politics/government. In ad
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architecture: Federal, Colonial, Italianate
In Style: American Colonial Architecture, Infobox, architecture
architecture: Federal, Colonial, Italianate
In Style: Italianate Architecture, Infobox, architecture
architecture: Federal, Colonial, Italianate
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Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Clark, United StatesQuote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Clark, United States
Wikidata item Q5890505, property P131/P17 (location): Clark, United States
Wikidata: Homestead Farm at Oak Ridge
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