James Fenimore Cooper House
Located at 457 High Street, this house was built about 1780. In
1789, it became the birthplace of
James Fenimore
Cooper, novelist of the American wilderness.
In 1923, the house was acquired by the Burlington County Historical
Society, which also owns the adjacent
Bard-How House and
James Lawrence House.
It has now been restored and contains four museum rooms displaying
Cooper artifacts, implements and furnishings, along with
objects from the estate of Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother
who settled not far from Burlington after the battle of Waterloo.
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