Historic Sites
Downtown Historic District
| Site | Address | Info |
|---|---|---|
| Stage House Inn | Park Avenue & Front Street | Built 1737; “Tempe” house, 1688; Paff House, 1810, Duncan Phyfe Privy, 1814; Duel Barn, 1760 |
| Parse House | 1833 Front Street | 1680’s. One of the first settlers home. Home of Gideon Allen, Jr. from 1810-1847. In the Parse family for 120 years. Originally at 1828 Front St. Moved 1967, became a law office. |
| John Piatt home | 1805 Front Street | Built 1740’s, torn down 1954. Home of Washington’s aide Captain William Piatt |
| West Side House | 1785 Front Street | Site of W.A. Cleaver’s Academy In the 1780’s, was the site of Britton’s Hotel, which burned down |
| Shepard Place | 428 Valleyscent | Site of the 1712 home of William Miller, son of famous Reverend Benjamin Miller |
| Master William Cole | 1538 Front Street | Built 1742, Osborne Tavern during Revolution |
| Osborn-Coles homestead | 1568 Front Street | Pre-Revolutionary |
| Aaron Parse Plantation | 1800 Front Street | circa 1750’s home of Hemina Shotwell, a Quaker preacher |
| Stilger’s Cobbler Shop | 1818 Front Street | Built prior to 1819 |
| Cannonball House Museum | 1840 Front Street | c. 1760 Headquarters of local historical society. |
| Site of the Excelsior Hook & Ladder company | Corner of Bartle & Forest | Now the Scotch Plains Public Library. Chemical Company across the street is now the Rescue Squad Building |
| Scotch Plains Baptist Church | Corner of Forest & Grand | Gothic, 1871, third church on site, first built in 1747. Graveyard stones date to 1740’s. 26 Revolutionary soldiers are buried here |
| Second Baptist Church | Grand & Union | Built 1817, typical early meeting house, used as a school, then a “Y” since 1911. Open to the public |
| Site of “Deerhurst” | Evergreen Avenue and Westfield Road | Mansion of Dr. Abraham Coles |
| James Coles | 2104 Mountain Avenue | Early 1700’s – typical two-story farm house, well in the kitchen, later Stout’s |
| Amos Swan’s | 215 Westfield Road | Horsebreeeder for Rev., home of stallion, “Traveller” |
| Haunted House | 2215 Pine Terrace | c, 1865, was Julian Hawthorne and his seven children’s home |
| Baker Homestead | 215 Elm Court | Dates to early 1800’s – typical Jersey farm house |
| Jesse Clark Baker’s | 2511 Mountain Avenue | built c. 1760 early low wing added on for son Janathan Baker, 1800 |
| Ephraim Tucker Farmhouse | Jerusalem Road & Plainfield Avenue | 1740’s, Dutch Roof sweep, now the Scotch Hills Country club. Open to the public |
| Deacon Osborn’s | 2117 Westfield Avenue | 1740’s home of John Baldwin Osborn, a revolutionary war soldier |
| Manning Parse house | 348 Park Avenue | c. 1700, home of Cooper Parse, Judge of Superior Court of NJ |
| Old Baptist Parsonage | 347 Park Avenue | 1786 stone house of Reverend William Van Horn, frame section added 1810 |
| Pre-Revolutionary House | 328 park Avenue | Front part pre-Revolutionary |
| Old Hamilton House | 318 Park Avenue | Part of Lyon Farm, 1712 Ben Elliot’s blacksmith shop in the late 1800’s |
| Col. Recompense Stanbery | 245 Park Avenue | Grand Early 1800’s home, moved back in 1905 |
| Old Green Mill | Route 22 Loop | Dates to 1724, grist mill, powder mill, housed troops during the Revolutionary War. |
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Southside Historic District
| Site | Address | Info |
|---|---|---|
| “The Family Lott” | 2160 Buttonwood Lane | Pre-Revolutionary burial ground of DeCamps |
| John DeCamp House | Raritan Road at the corner of Qumby Lane | 1735 low “salt-box” section, larger section has a 1739 cornerstone |
| Dunham-Lambert House | 2050 Raritan Road | c. 1690, most of the original structure is gone |
| Grist Mill | 2041 Raritan Road | Second Simeon Lambert mill of 1840 replaced one built in 1772 |
| John Lambert House | 2011 Raritan Road | 1730’s Son James Lambert, a Revolutionary War hero, died in Sugar House prison |
| Littell Homestead | Raritan Road near Lake Avenue | c 1720, moved East about 200ft,. Early Windmill in back |
| Anthony Littell’s | 1900 Raritan Road | circa 1775, now a restaurant, much altered |
| Half-way Well | 1851 Raritan Road | Captain Eliakim Littell of Jersey Blues, one of five fighting brothers, then Gershom Littell for bride Phoebe Terry in 1785 |
| Frazee-Lee house | 11 Black Birch Road | Left part Moses Frazee’s circa 1694, joined with pre-Rev Thomas Lee, Sr’s home in 1828, moved again in 1963 |
| Aunt Betsy Frzee’s | 1451 Raritan Road | c 1700, was baking bread during the battle, Reluctant to offer British Generals Howe and Cornwallis – bread was refused |
| “House with Stars” | 1391 Raritan Road | Low part c. 1740, Ryno homestead and Sea Captain Brown’s |
| 1760 Carriage Shed | 1385 Raritan Road | Has barn in rear c. 1740’s, studio of artist Maxwell S. Simpson |
| Battle of Short Hills Monument & Memorial Grove | Raritan Road (Ash Brook Golf Club) | Commemorate battle fought on June 26, 1777, many lives, three officers and three cannons lost |
| Jonathan Terry Homestead | 1470 Raritan Road | c. 1740, right end Revolutionary soldier and Indian War hero |
| The Well | 1451 Rahway Road | Where Red coats stopped to drink during battle and it ran dry. House c. 1820’s was Lewis Terry’s |
| Amos Swan’s horse breeding farm | 1480 Martine Avenue | Still a horse farm today |
| Levi Frazee’s | 1461 Martine Avenue | Elegant Georgian brick, c. 1791 – Was Levi Darby’s – first mayor when the township was incorporated in 1877 |
| Scudder Home | 1285 Martine Avenue | Pre-Revolutionary basement, left side build in 1823, right in the 1850’s |
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