Peachfield

Peachfield in the Spring
Peachfield in the Spring

Peachfield

Peachfield is a restored country plantation house originally built in 1725, with an addition erected on the west side on the home completed in 1732. The name “Peachfield” comes from the property’s first settler, John Skene, the first Freemason resident on record in the colonies, who purchased the 300-acre property in the late 17th century. 

Upon Skene’s death in 1695, Henry Burr purchased the property.  Later, Henry built the east portion of the home in 1725. His son John Burr built the west portion in 1732.  The home remained in the Burr family for 200 years. In 1931, Norman and Miriam Harker purchased Peachfield. The house had virtually been destroyed by fire two years earlier. They engaged the services of R. Brognard Okie, a well-known Philadelphia architect, to restore the home in the colonial revival style which became popular in the early 20th century.  Three years prior to her death in 1965, Mrs. Harker bequeathed Peachfield and its surrounding 120 acres of land to The National Society of The Colonial Dames in The State of New Jersey.

Now used as the Society’s state headquarters, the Dames of New Jersey have honored Mrs. Harker’s wish to keep the property as it “ has always been,” and have maintained Peachfield as a house museum. Surrounding farm lands adjacent to the house are still farmed as they have been for more than 300 years.

Located at 180 Burrs Road, Westampton, NJ.

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