Built 1750 Designated NHL November 28, 1972 Opened 1750 Phone +1 908-282-7617 | NRHP Reference # 70000397 Address Elizabeth, NJ 07201, USA Area 1,600 m² Added to NRHP 18 December 1970 | |
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Architectural styles Colonial architecture, American Colonial Similar Warinanco Park, Belcher‑Ogden House, Liberty Hall, Courtyard Newark Elizabeth, Residence Inn Newark Elizabeth | ||
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Boxwood Hall, in Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey, United States, was built around 1750 by Elizabethtown's Mayor Samuel Woodruff, and from 1772 to 1795 served as home of Elias Boudinot, U.S. Representative and former President of the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 ending the American Revolutionary War. Alexander Hamilton was a friend of the Boudinouts, and he frequently visited at Boxwood Hall during much of the time he studied at Elizabethtown Academy. Boudinot and others met George Washington here for a luncheon and then escorted him to Manhattan for his inauguration as the first President on April 30, 1789.
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In 1795 Elias Boudinot sold the building to a lieutenant and paymaster in the Revolutionary War, Jonathan Dayton, who was one of four men to sign the Declaration of Independence for New Jersey. Dayton lived here until his death in 1824. In 1824, Dayton entertained Lafayette at this house.
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Modern status
In 2004, the house was at severe risk of damage.
The State of New Jersey operates the house as a historic house museum. The house is near the Belcher-Ogden Mansion-Price, Benjamin-Price-Brittan Houses District and the Nathaniel Bonnel House.
Boxwood Hall was an important place of interest for the "Young Immigrant Hamilton Tour" led by the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society, as part of the 2014 CelebrateHAMILTON events. The tour took place again in July 2016.