Built 1750 NRHP Reference # 71000496 Opened 1750 Added to NRHP 17 July 1971 | Architect John Imlay Designated NHL July 17, 1971 Area 4,000 m² | |
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Similar Village Historic District, Burlington County Historical, Tacony–Palmyra Bridge, Bachman–Wilson House, Kingston Bridge | ||
The Francis Hopkinson House is an historic home in Bordentown, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, where Francis Hopkinson and his wife Ann Borden lived from 1774 until his death in 1791.
Francis Hopkinson designed the first official flag of the United States. He created a Stars and Stripes flag with seven white stripes and six red ones for the United States and a Stars and Stripes flag with seven red stripes and six white ones for the Navy (the basis for the current U.S. flag).
Hopkinson was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New Jersey. He was also the first American-born composer of secular music.
During the American Revolution, Hopkinson designed Continental currency, departmental seals, and most of the elements in the Great Seal of the United States. He later served as a federal judge in Pennsylvania.
The house was to be burned by the British in 1778, but was spared by a Hessian officer's appreciation of Hopkinson's library.
It is currently a law office.