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The Veblen House: Taking a Step Towards Reuse

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Friends of Herrontown Woods (FOHW): Restoring a forgotten house and legacy. Sunday, July 12, 2015. Taking a Step Towards Reuse. With the handholds removed, it was rolled into place on a wheelbarrow similarly rescued from the curb. Another piece was added, meaning that about 100 pounds less "stuff" got hauled to the landfill, and we no longer have to dodge the mud. It also saved the time and materials that a newly constructed boardwalk would have required. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Numerous sour...

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The Veblen House: Finding Veblen Connections in a NY Photography Exhibit

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Friends of Herrontown Woods (FOHW): Restoring a forgotten house and legacy. Tuesday, December 23, 2014. Finding Veblen Connections in a NY Photography Exhibit. At the New York Historical Society gallery. You can find many of the photos through an internet search of " Annie Leibovitz Pilgrimage. That once stood near the house. Emily Dickinson's love of plants, also photographed by Leibovitz, is a thread that runs through the lives of many others, including Robert Frost and Veblen's uncle Thorstein. George...

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The Veblen House: Herrontown Woods

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Friends of Herrontown Woods (FOHW): Restoring a forgotten house and legacy. There's a nice writeup. On Herrontown Woods at the town website, describing how the Veblen homestead used to be a working farm, and how some of the woodlands were logged in the 1920s. Some trees are 150 years old or more. In May, 2015, FOHW made available a color-coded map of existing trails. Landmarks and access points. Copies are usually available at the kiosk at the main parking lot, or follow the link. Because the boulder fie...

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The Veblen House: Nature/Culture Walk

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Friends of Herrontown Woods (FOHW): Restoring a forgotten house and legacy. Saturday, May 23, 2015. On the premise that holiday weekends can sometimes have unexpected gaps, we're offering a nature and culture walk at Herrontown Woods. The Rotary Club of Princeton. Includes the Veblen House at Herrontown Woods among its service projects. They're having their annual Pancake Festival. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A House as a Character in a Play. Found Beauty- Springtime at the Veblen House. Numerous...

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The Veblen House: Found Beauty--Springtime at the Veblen House

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Friends of Herrontown Woods (FOHW): Restoring a forgotten house and legacy. Monday, May 11, 2015. Found Beauty- Springtime at the Veblen House. A clearing near the house is filled with Ajuga, a member of the mint family. In another flower bed, multiflora rose had displaced a portion of the remnant irises. Cut down during a Rotary volunteer day two years ago, the invasive rose was kept in check by the deer last year. We're leaving it as an experiment, to see if the deer do the same this year. Earlier in t...

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The Veblen House: Veblen House History and Raingarden Tutorial at Updike Farmstead on April 4th

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Friends of Herrontown Woods (FOHW): Restoring a forgotten house and legacy. Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Veblen House History and Raingarden Tutorial at Updike Farmstead on April 4th. Here's the press release:. At 1:00 PM - Siting a Raingarden in Your Yard. At 2:00 PM - Preserving Oswald Veblen's Historic House and Legacy. At 3:00 PM - Tree and Wildflower Walk. Learn about plants on this informal walk around the Updike Farmstead grounds to learn about the stately trees and plants growing along the fence lin...

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The Veblen House: A Walk in the Woods for K-2 Students

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Friends of Herrontown Woods (FOHW): Restoring a forgotten house and legacy. Friday, May 1, 2015. A Walk in the Woods for K-2 Students. Then, as we were crossing the little stream flowing out of the headwaters, we peered down into the clear water. What grabbed everyone's attention? The young salamanders were first discovered earlier this spring by Tyler Christiansen, a remarkable naturalist who was featured in the documentary "Field Biologist". We found a dragonfly larva, which didn't seem to mind posing ...

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The Veblen House: Stone Hill Church Volunteers Clear Old Barn Site

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Friends of Herrontown Woods (FOHW): Restoring a forgotten house and legacy. Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Stone Hill Church Volunteers Clear Old Barn Site. This past weekend, I led thirty kids on an expedition from the church into the woods and over to the Veblen House to clear some invasives. Everyone approached the challenge of invasives removal in a different way. These girls used a bucket brigade method to transfer cut multiflora rose to a pile. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Writer, Musician, Natura...

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The Veblen House: Letters

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Friends of Herrontown Woods (FOHW): Restoring a forgotten house and legacy. Letters to the editor about the Veblens and the Veblen House:. Veblen Began Process That Continues Today Through Open Space Movement. Appeared in Town Topics, March 20, 2013). WHO IS OSWALD VEBLEN? IMAGINE PRINCETON WITHOUT THE IAS, EINSTEIN, HERRONTOWN WOODS. A version of this letter appeared in the Town Topics, Feb. 6, 2013). Who is Oswald Veblen? Called a "woodchopping professor" of mathematics, he combined a midwesterner's bu...

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The Veblen House: Prefab

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Friends of Herrontown Woods (FOHW): Restoring a forgotten house and legacy. The Veblen House is a 1920s prefab brought to Princeton by J.P. Whiton-Stuart around 1930 from New York or Morristown, NJ, and then worked on by a Russian cabinet maker for a couple years, before being bought by the Veblens, who already owned the 1870s farm cottage nearby. An architect has described the house as "wonderful and unique". Rosemary Thornton, of SearsHomes.org. The photo shows how sections of the attic were connected.