Updike Farmstead

The Historical Society of Princeton obtained the six-section of land Updike Farmstead from the home of Stanley Updike in 2004. The Farmstead comprises of a late eighteenth/mid nineteenth century farmhouse, a substantial outbuilding worked in 1892, wagon shed, corn lodging, three-cove carport, and garden sheds. After the buy, watchful plans were laid for the restoration of the late eighteenth/mid nineteenth century farmhouse and related sitework to oblige extended tasks for the Historical Society. With starting help for the buy of the Farmstead from the New Jersey Green Acres Program and the Mercer County Open Space Preservation Board, the Historical Society additionally got subsidizing from the New Jersey Cultural Trust and from the New Jersey Historic Trust too private establishments, organizations, and exceptionally liberal people. The Historical Society joined forces with the Princeton compositional firm of Farewell Mills Gatsch on the farmhouse recovery from fall 2009 through 2010.