Morven Museum & Garden

Princeton
NJ
Portrait to Come (Hidden)

Portrait by Artist to Come

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Morven dates from the 1750's and was the home of Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. It served as the New Jersey Governor's Mansion; its restoration and conversion to a museum were completed in 2004.
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Stockton, Richard

The Federalists of the 1780s had a glimpse of what America was to become — a scrambling business society dominated by the pecuniary interests of ordinary people — and they did not like what they saw. This premonition of America’s future lay behind their sense of crisis and their horrified hyperbolic rhetoric. The wholesale pursuits of private interest and private luxury were, they thought, undermining America’s capacity for republican government. They designed the Constitution in order to save American republicanism from the deadly effects of the private pursuits of happiness.

— Gordon S. Wood
The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States (2011)