Walking Tour of the Andrew & Hannah Drake Farmstead

Join historian Patrick Harshbarger and The Watershed Institute's Executive Director Jim Waltman for a walking tour of the Andrew & Hannah Drake Farmstead at the Watershed’s reserve near Pennington. Harshbarger, principal architectural historian at Hunter Research, recently prepared a nomination to list this 18th and 19th century farmstead on the National and New Jersey Registers of Historic Places. The farmstead was home to six generations of the Drake Family who ran a successful mixed agricultural operation for 150 years. The farmstead, known in the 20th century as Brookdale Farm, was later home to Dr. Muriel and Joseph Buttinger, historic figures in their own right who hosted such notable intellectuals as physicist Albert Einstein, foreign policy leader McGeorge Bundy, poet Sir Stephen Spender, pioneering  psychiatrist Ruth Mack Brunswick, and celebrated expressionist painter Ethel Schwabacher. The Buttingers donated the land and buildings to the Watershed over a period of several decades in the latter 20th century.

Teens and adults. In-person program. Dress for the weather. Masks, social distancing, and adult attendance required.

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