Site Number: 26  Southern Tour

Weekend Events:
 -  The Colonial Living History Alliance will demonstrate daily
       chores of 18th Century life such as open-hearth cooking
 - Costumed interpreters in period clothes
 - Lambs Artillery & Daniel Morgan Rifle Co. demonstrating
      18th century military encampment
 - Live period music on harpsichord and violin throughout the day

 
Driving directions:
From Rt. 206 in Hillsborough, take Amwell Road to Middlebush (6 miles). Turn right on South Middlebush Road. The Wyckoff- Garretson House is on the right side of the road (1 mile).

From 287, take exit 10 to Easton Avenue south. Turn right on Grove Lane to AmWell Road (2 1/2 miles). Turn left on AmWell then right on South Middlebush Road.

Parking:
Parking and restroom facilities are available at the house.

ADA Accessable: No

Normal Hours:
Open only for special events

Website: www.themeadowsfoundation.org
Email: else@patmedia.net
Phone: 732-828-7418; Evelyn Maron
Map: Google Map
Historic Register: Yes

Organization:
The Meadows Foundation

Wyckoff-Garretson House

Constructed in 1730/1805, the Wyckoff-Garretson House has been noted as a very important and rare example of the earliest period of Dutch American settlement in Somerset County. "The house survives remarkably intact for almost 300 years with a considerable amount of original fabric," "… most remarkable of which is the anchor-bent frame, built in two nearly identical building campaigns almost 100 years apart. The timber frame is a marvel of European-influenced building craft…a major showplace of Dutch American vernacular architecture in NJ."

John Wyckoff constructed the first half of this house in 1730, to which improvements were added by John's son, Cornelius, in 1775; and finally, after his and his son's death, the second half of the house was built in 1805 by Samuel Garretson, a farmer from Hillsborough who moved to the farm to be "closer to the city"(New Brunswick.)