Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — PRESIDENT CLEVELAND’S HOME AT PRINCETON, N. J. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND’S HOME AT PRINCETON, N. J.

A picture of the house in which- President Cleveland will live after his retirement from public life is here presented. It is a picturesque old mansion in a pretty part of Princeton, N. J. Mr. Cleveland will not be dean of tne Princeton University law college. This story, which currency shortly after the purchase of the property, has been authoritatively denied by President Patton. According to the university authorities, Mr. Cleveland’s residence in Princeton will have no university significance. The fact is that the President has been desirous of retiring to some quiet place, aud both he and Mrs. Cleveland are very fond of the college town and its atmosphere. The house is not one which any one would suppose would be occupied by a man of Mr. Cleyeland’s wealth?., It is a large, roomy structure, with an appearance of, age that it does not deserve. It ‘is built of stuccoed brick and brown stone iu the old colonial style. Its dimensions arc thirty feet wide by fifty feet deep and two stories, and a half high. Three sides of it are surrounded by porches. Through its middle runs a wide, old-fashioned, Jiail, at the right of which is the staircase. The flooring of the hall is„in hard wood, but thereare no other hard wood floors in the house. The rooms, fifteen in number, are

all very large, and the ceilings are twelve feet high. of the first floor is given up to the parlor. This apartment ocupies the south side of the house. On the northern side are the dining and sitting rooms. The whole affair is sadly out of order. There is no ornamentation whatever in the interior. The house was built in 1854 by Commodore Stockton, a lineal descendant qf Richard S.tockton, who bought the land |rom William Penn. It was owned lately by Mrs. Slidell, who, when she left for Europe a month ago, told her agent to sell it for $40,000. The Clevelands will reside in Princeton from October to June and intend to spend the warmer months at Buzzard’s Bay.