Liberty Hall - Governor William Livingston House

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dc.creatorBeards, Daniel E.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-31T14:12:45Z
dc.date.available2024-07-31T14:12:45Z
dc.date.issued2014-04-12
dc.descriptionOriginally a fourteen-room Georgian-style house, it was built in 1772. Liberty Hall stands today as a fifty-room Victorian Italianate mansion. Liberty Hall has been home to many historical figures and was the home of William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey, who served from 1776 to 1790; United States Supreme Court Justice Henry Brockholst Livingston; the Kean political dynasty, including Susan Livingston Kean, widow of Continental Congress delegate John Kean, United States Senator and Congressman John Kean, and Captain John Kean, son of United States Senator Hamilton Fish Kean; and, in its first year of occupancy, future Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. Liberty Hall has had visitors of such stature as George Washington, Martha Washington, Lewis Morris, Marquis de Lafayette, Elias Boudinot, and John Jay, the latter of whom was married there
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dc.subjectGovernor William Livingston House
dc.subjectLiberty Hall Museum
dc.subjectKean University
dc.subjectU.S. National Register of Historic Place
dc.subjectU.S. National Historic Landmark
dc.subjectNew Jersey Register of Historic Places
dc.subjectAmerican History
dc.subjectHistory
dc.subjectUnion County
dc.subjectGateway
dc.subjectThe Gateway Region
dc.subjectNew Jersey Gateway Region
dc.subjectNew Jersey
dc.subjectNJ
dc.subjectJersey
dc.subjectThe Garden State.
dc.titleLiberty Hall - Governor William Livingston House

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