The Walker-Stout House
The Walker-Stout house, circa 1908.
Historical Overview
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A small house fronting Route 1 once stood directly south of the Princeton Baptist Church in the historic West Windsor community of Penns Neck.
It's unknown when this house was built, but in 1848 - the same year he purchased the adjacent Red Lion Inn property[1] - Joseph M. Taylor - a West Windsor Overseer of the Highway, Constable, and Poundkeeper from the 1850s-70s - and his wife, Sarah, sold about one tenth of an acre to Embly Snook - a West Windsor "Commissioner for Laying Roads" in the 1860s-80s. The sale indicated a preexisting house on this lot. In 1851, Snook further deeded the house to Mary Walker. The 1870 census shows her living here with a shoemaker named Ezekiel Embly - possibly her husband. At the time, she worked as a tailor. In 1880, the property was deeded to John Embly. However, he died within the next eleven years, for in 1891, his heirs sold the tract to Sarah Pollman and her husband, Bruno. It then passed to Alfred and Harriet Snook in 1897 and finally Sarah J. Stout in 1903. Sarah lived here until her death in 1927, after which it was inherited by her sons Frank and Osborn. Frank died in 1967, and three years later, Osborn sold the property to Frank Danley (cook at the Clarksville Diner) and Adele D. Danley. However, just two years later, the adjacent Princeton Baptist Church - which had stood next to the house all these many generations - bought the property. The house was demolished by 1975 |
The Walker-Stout house once stood in the center of this photo.
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Bibliography
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- “West Windsor Aerial Photography Composite Map, 1980.” Map. Historical Society of West Windsor - Map Archives. West Windsor, NJ, 1980.
- “West Windsor Aerial Photography Composite Map, 1985.” Map. Historical Society of West Windsor - Map Archives. West Windsor, NJ, 1985.
