
Fosterfields
About Fosterfields
Fosterfields, also known as Fosterfields Living Historical Farm, is a 213.4-acre (86.4 ha) farm and open-air museum at the junction of Mendham and Kahdena Roads in Morris Township, New Jersey. The oldest structure on the farm, the Ogden House, was built in 1774. Listed as the Joseph W. Revere House, Fosterfields was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 1973, for its significance in art, architecture, literature, and military history. The museum portrays farm life circa 1920.
United States Navy officer, adventurer and author Joseph Warren Revere, a grandson of Paul Revere, was a significant owner of the property. During Revere's ownership he designed and built an 1854 Carpenter-Gothic mansion titled "The Willows."
In 1881 Charles Grant Foster, a New York commodities broker, purchased the property and developed it into a Jersey cattle farm entitled "Fosterfields." His daughter, Caroline Rose Foster, spent 98 years living and working on the property, enjoying carpentry, fishing, and civic engagement during the Gilded Age of Morristown.
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Photos of Fosterfields
01Morris TownshipJerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 3.0
02MORRISTOWN, MORRIS COUNTYJerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 3.0
03Joseph Warren Revere ColorizedAvital Shtapura · CC BY-SA 4.0
04Sidebar Runabout Carriage House, Fosterfields New JerseyEvedawn99 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 2 miles of Fosterfields; the closest, Macculloch Hall, is about 1.4 miles away.



