2025-02-042025-02-042024-09-04https://hdl.handle.net/10929/144289The house was built on a 120-acre property purchased by Livingston in 1760 in then-Elizabethtown, close to New York, New York where Livingston worked. The Livingston family moved into Liberty Hall full-time in 1773. The gardens and orchards first planted by Governor Livingston are still evident on the museum grounds today. Over the years many famous people have been guests at Liberty Hall including: Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Martha Washington, Lewis Morris, Marquis de Lafayette, Elias Boudinot, John Jay, and Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford and George Herbert Walker Bush.Original file name 1525077318080032920 copy.jpg2048x1536Each photograph within this collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. Therefore, these photos may only be used in a way that is permitted by copyright and related rights legislation. The following terms of use for State Library patrons shall apply. 1. Educational Institution/student use is permitted as long as such usage adheres to all copyright and related rights legislation. In these instances, these photographs may only be used for educational or historical purposes. 2. Non-Commercial use is permitted without permission from the rights holder, as long as such use adheres to all copyright and related right legislation. 3. Under no circumstances may these photographs be used for commercial purposes without the direct permission of the rights-holder. 4. Under no circumstances may these photographs be used for political purposes. 5. Users must always give appropriate credit to the photographer. The credit may not in any way suggest the right's holder endorses the user or their use of the photographs. 6. Photographs may be copied or redistributed in any medium or format as long as such use does not violate copyright and related rights legislation. 7. Users may remix, transform, and rebuild upon the original photographs as long as it does not violate copyright and related rights legislation.Liberty HallGovernor William Livingston HouseKean UniversityU.S. National Register of Historic PlacesU.S. National Historic LandmarkNew Jersey Register of Historic PlacesAmerican HistoryHistoryThe American RevolutionHistoric HomesUnion TownshipUnion CountyCentral JerseyNew JerseyNJJerseyThe Garden State