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Hardy’s Tavern 2305 Floral Park Road Piscataway
Edelen House 2401 Floral Park Road Piscataway
Built in the 1830s, enlarged, and renovated in 1930, the Edelen House is a three-part, two-and-one-halfstory side-gabled dwelling. The main block, of frame construction, was built for Dr. Horace Edelen; it was of the traditional side-hall-and-double-parlor plan, with interior trim transitional between Federal and Greek Revival styles. In 1926 the property was purchased by the Maryland Tobacco Planters Company, which established an investment tobacco farm. In 1930 David Bailey, one of the company directors, renovated the house, covering it with a brick veneer and adding flanking brick hyphens and wings. The remodeled antebellum plantation house represents the early twentieth-century enthusiasm for Colonial and Georgian architectural forms and styles.
Built in 1790s, Hardy’s Tavern is a two-and-onehalf-story, side-gabled brick building with flush gable chimneys and brick walls laid in Flemish bond. A separate kitchen building is connected by a modern hyphen. The house was built by Isadore Hardy in the 1790s and operated as a tavern by the Hardy family from the 1790s to the 1840s. It has been used as a residence since the Civil War. It is one of the few remaining early buildings in Piscataway and is an important element in this historic port town.
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