Welcome back to the 2021 Union County Four Centuries in a Weekend event. My last stop for Saturday was Liberty Hall. I planned another meetup with our NPTC club members, as I had in 2019. This time, however, I was determined to join the tour. The blue house on the left page is the visitor center. Liberty Hall is the yellow house on the right page. Construction of the initial house (14 rooms) began in 1760, with the original owner serving in the Continental Congress and as New Jersey's first governor. The house passed through several other families before returning to a niece of the original owner. By the late 1800s, there was a push to expand the house, and it now stands at 50 rooms!
By the early 1900s, the family started conservation and the creation of a museum, buying back period pieces from the original owners. The tours for the Four Centuries event are free. Unfortunately, they also only cover the garden and the first floor of the house. If you want the upstairs, you must purchase the whole tour on another weekend. I've seen so many old houses that I doubt I will return to see the rest. You can see a few of the rooms below, and you will see more in the following blog entries.
This layout was made for the CM November 2025 virtual crop. Scroll to sketch #4. The left page is mostly exterior photos, while the right side focuses on interior images, including the dining room set for a Halloween Party (we toured in October, remember). When looking through my collections, I decided on the Burlap and Lace collection, which had previously been a secret box. There were 2 packs of paper, and the lacy prints worked best for this layout. I used three tones of lace paper--white, pink, and brown. Those were layered on soft ivory cardstock. I used border stickers and a few other embellishments from the kit to round out the pages.
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