National Register of Historic Places
High Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey
The record
- Listed
- August 25, 2014
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- 6 W. Pearl St., Burlington
- County
- Burlington
- State
- New Jersey
- Contributing resources
- 1 building, 1 site
- Coordinates
- 40.08056, -74.85998
- Reference number
- 14000515
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The story
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The High Street Historic District (Boundary Increase) is a historic district at 6 W. Pearl St. in Burlington, Burlington County, in the Colonial and Federal styles. A first brewery was established on the site c. 1678, and the building took its present form in stages.
Why it's listed
It was listed in the National Register in 2014 under criteria A, B, C and D, with local significance in community planning and development, politics and government, military history, literary history, architecture and commerce.
Physical character
The walls are stucco over brick on a stone foundation, under an asphalt gable roof. In 1796 a Federal staircase and Federal door frames and molding were installed, and the center chimney was removed, and a south addition was built in 1885-1891.
Historical context
The property was used as a brewery from about 1678 to 1796, when it was converted to a residence and Jackson Browne French and Katherine Lawrence purchased it. Thomas Budd, whom the West Jersey assembly commissioned in 1684 to voyage to England, sold the Burlington brewery to Samuel Jennings in 1693. Frank Richard Stockton moved in in 1860, and Walter H. Shull and Mabel Shull bought the house in 1901. A renovation begun in 2001 was halted in 2008, when the house was put up for sale, and John Brady bought it in 2010.