Aycrigg Mansion, located in

Passaic Passaic ( or ) is a city in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city had a total population of 70,537, ranking as the 16th largest municipality in New Jersey and an increase of 656 from the 69,7 ...

Passaic County Passaic County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey that is part of the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, the population of Passaic County was enumerated at 524,118, an increase of 22,892 (4.6%) from t ...

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, United States, was the home of

John Bancker Aycrigg John Bancker Aycrigg (July 9, 1798 – November 8, 1856) was an American physician and politician who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives in two non-consecutive terms from 1837 to 1839 and 1841 to 1843. Early li ...

. The mansion was built in 1848 and was added to the

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on April 29, 1982, for its significance in architecture, education, politics/government, and social history. With

History

In 1848, Dr.

, a physician and politician who represented New Jersey in the

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, built the Renaissance revival Italian Palazzo style home for his family. One of Aycrigg's sons, Benjamin Bogert Aycrigg, was the first mayor of Passaic, in 1873 and later owned the mansion. In 1899, the house became the first permanent home of the Passaic Collegiate School (which today is at 22 Kent Court). In 1908, the house became the new home of several

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s, which it remained until 1994. For a several years, the house was the home to the Passaic Museum which shut down due to financial issues. Since the late 1990s, the structure houses a boy's religious high school, Mesivta Tiferes R' Tzvi Aryeh Zemel.

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File:Aycrigg Mansion, Main Avenue, Passaic, Passaic County, NJ Photos from Survey HABS NJ-413 - EXTERIOR - VIEW FROM EAST.tif, Exterior view from east File:Aycrigg Mansion, Main Avenue, Passaic, Passaic County, NJ Photos from Survey HABS NJ-413 - EXTERIOR - LOOKING SOUTH.tif, Exterior looking south File:Aycrigg Mansion, Main Avenue, Passaic, Passaic County, NJ Photos from Survey HABS NJ-413 - EXTERIOR - LOOKING NORTH.tif, Exterior looking north

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