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The Lambertville Historical Society will hold its 25th Autumn House Tour on Sunday, October 21st from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Advance tickets will be available after Labor Day.
TICKETS:
Advanced tickets by mail = $15.00 / Day-of-Tour = $20
Tickets are available starting Tuesday, September 4, 2007
BY MAIL: Please order by mail before October 12. Tickets will be mailed within 5 days.
Send self-addressed stamped envelope and check, made payable to the Society, to:
Lambertville Historical Society, PO Box 2, Lambertville, NJ 08530.
IN-PERSON: Advance Sales through Saturday, October 20
Lambertville:
Coda, 34 North Union Street
Coryell Gallery, 8 Coryell Street Dresswell’s, 10 Bridge Street Fiddleheads, 19 Bridge Street Lambertville Free Public Library, 6 Lilly Street Lambertville Trading Co., 43 Bridge Street Marshall House, 60 Bridge Street (Weekends 1 to 4 pm) Homestead Farm Market, 262 N. Main Street Stanley Cleaners, Church and Main Streets
New Hope:
Farley’s Bookshop, 44 South Main Street.
Blue Raccoon, 550 Union Square
Stockton:
Phillips Fine Wines, 17 Bridge Street.
DAY-OF-TOUR TICKETS — $20.00
ON-SALE:
Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead, Rt. 29, just north of City Limits
Marshall House, 60 Bridge Street City Hall, 18 York Street FREE PARKING at Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead. FREE SHUTTLE BUS loops from the Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead to City Hall, 18 York St. (every half hour) INFORMATION, call 609-397-0770. DIRECTIONS TO PARKING AND SHUTTLE BUS AT FARMSTEAD:
Some of the Homes and Historic Sites on the 2007 House Tour 
Fenwick Pew House 42 Coryell Street
The restoration of this 1887 Queen Ann Victorian has been thoroughly chronicled in Old House Interiors and Victorian Homes magazines. Bob Vila featured the house in his Restore America television series (the New Jersey episode) on Home and Garden TVThis lovely free-standing Queen Anne town house has been brought back to its original architectural style and integrity. The owners refinished the staircase and floors; stripped all the woodwork, transformed the parlors, dining room, halls and kitchen with turn-of-the-century decor and wall paper. Salvaged oak columns were added to the location where pocket doors were located and removed many years ago to define the separation between the front and back parlors. Each room has been papered from ceiling to baseboard with Bradbury and Bradbury wallpapers, with one pattern lending an element and/or color to the next application. 
A three story brick Colonial Revival,
this house, along with its next door twin, was built in 1904 when Lambertville was a prospering factory town.Upon entering the home, one is immediately struck by the beautiful entry hall. The impressive staircase is the original chestnut, a beautiful wood seldom used in the United States after 1910 due to a blight that decimated the species. The carving over the opening into the living room and the two large bay windows further convey the elegance of this structure. The first floor powder room showcases local artist Mark Pullen’s mural, “Views from the Bridge.” Mark painted the views north and south of the river from the New Hope/Lambertville Bridge encompassing all four walls of the room.
Tour participants are also invited to visit the James Marshall House, the 185-year-old home of the man credited with discovering gold at Sutter's Mill, California, in 1849. The house, at 60 Bridge Street in the heart of Lambertville, serves as the headquarters of the Lambertville Historical Society.
Our new exhibit, "Lambertville Roots: Evolution of a River Town," , traces the history of the area through photographs and artifacts. Accompanying these displays are scrapbooks and video presentations featuring more interesting images from Lambertville's past. The Society maintains the Marshall House and artifacts and documents of importance to Lambertville's history. It will use proceeds from the tour to support these conservation activities as well as its educational programs. 
The Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead
features a newly created old time General Store and Post Office, a new barn to house large artifacts and a three-level bank barn, filled with farm implements and household items spanning 200 years.
The general store and post office join two small buildings and puts the old post office inside the store. The counter holds an old cash register. Shelves hold tins of food and household needs from fabric and thread to baby bottles, tools and the Lambertville Rubber Co.’s famous SnagPruf boots. The large, new barn will house large farm equipment and recent acquisitions not quickly assimilated into existing displays. The three-level bank barn, with parts dating back to 1892, was built into a hillside so that both the first level for animals and second for feed were accessible at ground level. It is filled with farm implements--corn huskers, poultry-raising equipment and tools like a beautiful thresher with its original red paint, and familiar household items - everything from an early, well-equipped kitchen with wood stove, pump and canning equipment to the farmer’s wife’s vacuum cleaner and beam loom. 
Canal Walks: Lambertville’s 19th century growth and affluence was a product of the mills that dotted the riverfront and the canal traffic. A guided walking tour along the Delaware and Raritan Canal from the Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead to downtown Lambertville will leave at 12:00 Noon. Canal tours from downtown Lambertville to the Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead will begin at 4:00 PM at the intersection of the canal path and Bridge Street near the bridge (look for the balloons). Just short of a mile, each tour will take about an hour. It will follow the towpath behind the gardens of homes on Clinton Street, alongside remaining walls of mills, old pier pilings and Alexauken Creek. You can leave the tour anywhere along the canal path to rejoin the house tour.
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