Talk:Van Vorst House

History resources
The Van Vorsts were a prominent family who trace their North American roots the third superintendent of the patroonship Pavonia, whose bowery was located at Harsimus, where his widow built the first stone house in the colony on the shores of the North River (Hudson River) in 1647. Their descendants played an important role in the development Jersey City, establishing the Township of Van Vorst (including the namesake Van Vorst Park) which was later incorporated into it. Cornelius Van Vorst acted as mayor of Jersey City from 1860 to 1862 and built the landmark Barrow Mansion.

The bluestone Van vorst House remained the family until 1866.

5001 sqft

Coordinate error
The Van Vorst House is located at 531 Palisade Avenue, on the west side of the side between South and Bowrers.Djflem (talk) 10:37, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅. You know, Djflem, since you know where these places are located, you can use the GeoLocator tool to determine their coordinates exactly: Just Ctrl-click to put the marker in the right place (and drag it if you need to refine the position), then copy an appropriate template from the "Basic wikipedia/commons templates" or "More wikipedia templates" list at bottom left (adding a type parameter and refining the region code to "US-NJ"). If you need to, you can double-check the location with Google street view. Deor (talk) 10:56, 2 June 2013 (UTC)