Captain James Lawrence lived on this property while attending school in Woodbury. The property was presented to the Gloucester County, N.J. Historical Society by George M. Beckett, Edward Tonkin Bradway, Fannie V. Watson Bradway, James Cooper Griscom, Howard Clark Hendrickson, Edgar F. Hurff, Victor E. Kugler, Henry W. Leeds, Mahlon W. Newton, William Richman, Isaac D. Sayre, John W. Sparks, Frank H. Stewart, Thomas Whitney Stnnott, Minnie A. Moore Tatem, Hon. David O. Watkins, and Ann Whitall Chapter D.A.R. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior in 1924 1925.