Littell-Lord Farmstead

Littell-Lord Farmstead is a beautiful landmark home in Union County, New Jersey.

We visited it on the same spectacular fall day (October 28, 2023) we visited The Haunted Village of Feltville which is located in the same lovely town of Berkeley Heights on Horseshoe Road.

According to the Berkeley Heights website:

The Littell-Lord Farmstead, located in Berkeley Heights, Union County, New Jersey, United States, is a pastoral site reminiscent of Union County’s agricultural past. It was built around 1760 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 7, 1979. It currently serves as the home and public museum of the Berkeley Heights Historical Society.

The farmhouse was built around 1760 by farmer and weaver Andrew Littell, who lived there with his wife and seven children. It was passed down through the Littell family until it was sold to the Lord family in 1867. Elizabeth Wemett of the Lord family sold the property to Berkeley Heights in 1975.

The farmstead property, all of which is owned by the township of Berkeley Heights, includes the main farmhouse, an adjacent Victorian annex in the Carpenter Gothic style (which served as a schoolhouse in the 1870s), a stone spring house, a summer kitchen, and 18 acres of farm and forest land.

Restoration and Structural Stabilization

The site is currently undergoing restoration efforts for structural stabilization.

There is a Construction Journal of the progress of the renovations.

This video explains the need for renovations:

The video below was filmed the Saturday before we visited the Farmstead! Sadly, we missed seeing the interiors when we were there.

4 Comments

Paula Short

November 14, 2023 at 10:11 am Reply

This is lovely. Thank you for sharing your visit with us.
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  December 5, 2023 at 1:58 pm Reply
  
  Thank you so much for visiting!
Pam

May 26, 2024 at 3:40 pm Reply

When can one visit the Littell-Lord farmstead? In addition to the museum, can records from the 1950’s in Berkeley Heights be located here? Thank you!
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  May 26, 2024 at 9:24 pm Reply
  
  I believe the interior is currently being restored:
  
  https://www.berkeleyheights.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=775&ARC=2473
  
  https://www.berkeleyheights.gov/1485/Littell-Lord-Farmstead
  
  I believe you can walk around outside from dusk to dawn, but I would probably contact the town office of Berkeley Heights at 908-464-2700.

Littell-Lord Farmstead | Berkeley Heights, New Jersey

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