Westland Mansion
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Westland Mansion was the Princeton, New Jersey home of the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States, Grover Cleveland. Purchased by Cleveland after his second term as president in 1896, the former chief executive lived there from 1897 until his death in 1908. In that time period, Cleveland dramatically altered his home by adding a two story wing to the house. The National Park Service describes the original house, patterned after Morven, a nearby 18th-century mansion, as a "2-1/2-story, stone structure covered with stucco painted yellow, [with] twin parlors on the first floor, spacious rooms, high ceilings, and handsome marble mantelpieces."
Cleveland's widow, Frances, continued to reside in the house for many years after his death. Today, Westland, while in pristine condition, is privately owned, and thus not open to the public.
