Whippany Farm

History

Whippany Farm is located at 53 E Hanover Avenue.

The Boston architects Arthur Rotch and George Tilden designed this Colonial Revival mansion as a summer home for George Griswold Frelinghuysen and his wife Sara Ballantine. The house was completed in 1892 and surrounded by a pastoral landscape of sweeping lawns, woods, and gardens.

George’s daughter Matilda kept the summer home and in 1964 planned its conversion to a public arboretum. She bequeathed the estate in 1969 to the Morris County Park Commission, which occupies the house as its headquarters. The former carriage house contains the Frelinghuysen carriages.

Whippany Farm