Acorn Hall

Acorn Hall was built in 1853 by the Schermerhorn family and remodeled in Italianate Villa style around 1860 after the Augustus Crane family bought it. The house is named for a centuries-old oak that once stood on the grounds.

Mary Crane Hone donated the property to the Morris County Historical Society in 1971, making it both the society’s headquarters and a house museum. The furnishings are largely original to the Schermerhorn and Crane-Hone families; carpeting and decorative painting have been preserved from the Victorian era.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and listed on the New Jersey Women’s Heritage Trail.

The house is a short walk east of downtown Morristown, on the same block of Morris Avenue as the Washington’s Headquarters NPS unit. Worth pairing into a single afternoon of Morristown history.