Hamill House

The Hamill House is the original building on the campus of The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township, in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1814 by the school's founder, Isaac Van Arsdale Brown, D.D. (1784–1861), the fieldstone schoolhouse is a national historic landmark and an example of Mid-Atlantic federal architecture. The house still fulfills the founder's original intent by serving as a residence hall for both students and faculty. In 1885, the structure was renamed Hamill House in honor of Samuel McClintock Hamill, D.D. (1812–1889) the Lawrenceville School's longest serving Head Master. It is the first of the "Circle Houses", residential houses named for their location on a landscaped circle designed to surround the house by the 19th-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

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