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64:-inspired supports and a curved porch roof with joists reminiscent of a ship's framing in a nod to the house's namesake and Mauricetown's maritime history. Historically, there was a small sitting porch on the south elevation, but it was enclosed in the 1920s and made part of the interior living space. The home's exterior is covered in vinyl siding, and features ornate Italianate
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was financially successful, and was known to travel to ports throughout the
Atlantic and the Caribbean. His 1878 ship the Harry B. Ritter was of the most expensive ships built at the local J.W. Vannaman Shipyard. A member of Captain Peterson's immediate family owned the property until 1914, when his widow sold the property.
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Captain Peterson House several decades ago, the owners have re-built and installed a cupola similar to the one seen in a 1910 postcard photograph, as
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Isaac
Peterson (1832–1914) was a mariner and sea captain born and raised in southern New Jersey. In about 1852, he married Sarah Ann Lore. They had five children, two of whom died before the age of five. In 1864, they purchased the 21/100-acre plot in Mauricetown to build their house. Peterson
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The structure is a three-bay, two-story, frame home, built on a double-pile side hall plan. There is a one-story kitchen wing, as well as an open porch, at the back of the house. There is also a large screened porch on the southern elevation. The front porch, originally adorned with intricate
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Several owners in the twentieth century carried on the tradition of working with maritime trades. Peterson's son, who owned the house with his wife from 1895 until his death in 1900, made his living through maritime work, and census records show that the next two owners, a father and son, were
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Deed of Sale from Seth and Ruth Bowen to Isaac
Peterson and wife, Cumberland County, New Jersey, Deed Book CK, pg 332. County Clerk’s Office, Bridgeton, New Jersey.
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View of Front Street from steeple of
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Captain Isaac
Peterson and neighbors on his front porch. Photograph. Collection of Robert and Judith Moore.
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