The Holmes–Hendrickson House is located at 62 Longstreet Road, adjacent to

Holmdel Park Holmdel Park is located in Holmdel Township, New Jersey and is part of the Monmouth County Park System. The initial park land was established in 1962, with an additional section added in 2001. Holmdel Park is also the home of the Holmdel Arbore ...

, in Holmdel Township of

Monmouth County, New Jersey Monmouth County () is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is bordered to its west by Mercer and Middlesex Counties, to its south by Ocean County, to its east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to its north ...

, United States. The farmhouse was built around 1754 by William Holmes, a descendent of

Obadiah Holmes Obadiah Holmes (1610 – 15 October 1682) was an early Rhode Island settler, and a Baptist minister who was whipped in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs and activism. He became the pastor of the Baptist Church in Newport, ...

and

Cornelius Hendrickson Cornelius Hendrickson was a Dutch mariner and explorer who charted the North American coastline near present-day New Jersey. Early life Cornelius Hendrickson was born around 1572, the son of Lambert Barrentje Hendrickson, an admiral in the Dutch ...

. William sold the property to his maternal first cousin, Garret Hendrickson, shortly after construction. The property changed hands several times after Garret's death in 1801, and was eventually purchased by Bell Labs in 1929. At risk of demolition during construction of the

Bell Labs Holmdel Complex The Bell Labs Holmdel Complex, in Holmdel Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, functioned for 44 years as a research and development facility, initially for the Bell System and later Bell Labs. The centerpiece of the campus is ...

, the structure was sold to the

Monmouth County Historical Association The Monmouth County Historical Association was established in 1898 by a group of county residents headed by professional educator Caroline Gallup Reed. They soon incorporated in order “to discover, procure, preserve and perpetuate whatever rela ...

, who relocated the building to its present location in 1959. Ownership of the structure was transferred in 2019 to the

Monmouth County Park System The Monmouth County Park System is an agency that maintains over 40 parks and recreational areas, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Established in 1960, the Park System takes up 5.9% of Monmouth County's to ...

. The house is one of several historic properties owned by the Monmouth County Park System and is operated as a

historic house museum A historic house museum is a house of historic significance that is preserved as a museum. Historic furnishings may be displayed in a way that reflects their original placement and usage in a home. Historic house museums are held to a variety of ...

by MCPS in cooperation with MCHA. The house was documented as the Hendrick Hendrickson House by the

Historic American Buildings Survey The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , , "little star", is a Typography, typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a star (heraldry), heraldic star. Computer scientists and Mathematici ...

(HABS) in 1939. It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

on April 26, 1978, for its significance in agriculture and architecture. With The house is also listed on the Monmouth County Historic Sites Inventory.https://www.monmouthcountyparks.com/page.aspx?ID=5419

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