Saturday, October 11, 2025, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. & Sunday, October 12, 2025, 12 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites
71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJ 08876

Historic preservation is underway for Revolution NJ “Down the Brook” at Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites.

“At the Sign of the Adze, Axe, and Chisel” meet a carpenter at work practicing historic trades of the eighteenth century used in the construction of the Wallace House 250 years ago.

Learn about the “Sustainable Materials & Traditional Techniques” architects and contractors are reintroducing to the Wallace House as part of its 250th anniversary rehabilitation including linseed oil paint made from flax by Brouns and Co.

Sunday, October 12, 2025, 12 p.m. the Somerville Environmental Commission hosts a Salem Oak Celebration for the third anniversary of the planting of Somerville’s seedling of New Jersey’s historic Salem Oak at Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites.

This weekend is made possible by the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage Association, Proud Partner of Revolution NJ, with funds from the Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and New Jersey Historical Commission, and is offered as part of Somerset County’s Journey Through the Past.

250 years after Scottish emigrant and Philadelphia merchant John Wallace built the Wallace House at “Hope Farm,” the Wallace House is under construction again as part of Down the Brook: Revitalization of Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites for Revolution NJ. The historic rehabilitation of Wallace House is being supported in part by a Semiquincentennial Grant from the Historic Preservation Fund administered by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

? Revolution NJ is New Jersey’s official observance of the 250th anniversaries of New Jersey’s first Constitution July 2, 2026 and the American Revolution in New Jersey from 2024 – 2033.

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