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Jacob Wills House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New Jersey Register of Historic Places

The Jacob Wills House in 2013
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Location	Brick Road, west of Evans Road, Evesham Township, New Jersey
Coordinates	39°52′46″N 74°54′02″W / 39.87944°N 74.90056°W / 39.87944; -74.90056
Built	1789 (1789)
Built by	Jacob Wills
Architectural style	Georgian, Corner Passage Plan, Delaware Valley Vernacular
MPS	Historic Resources of Evesham Township MPDF
NRHP reference No.	89002296^[1]
NJRHP No.	809^[2]
Added to NRHP	November 1, 1990
Designated NJRHP	November 29, 1989

The Jacob Wills House is an eighteenth-century Flemish "checkerboard" brick farmhouse, located on Brick Road, west of Evans Road, near the Marlton section of Evesham Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. It was built in 1789 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 1, 1990, for its significance in architecture.^[1]^[3] It was listed as part of the Historic Resources of Evesham Township, New Jersey, Multiple Property Submission (MPS).^[4]

Jacob Wills was a descendant of Dr. Daniel Wills, a Quaker, who had purchased the land in 1676 from William Penn. The brickwork in the gable of the house has the initial I, M, and W for Jacob and Mary Wills, and the date 1789.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System – (#89002296)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Burlington County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection – Historic Preservation Office. March 25, 2024. p. 8.
^ ^a ^b Benenson, Carol A.; Claypoole, N. Catherine (March 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Jacob Wills House". National Park Service. With accompanying 14 photos
^ Behenson, Carol A.; Claypoole, N. Catherine (March 1989). "Historic Resources of Evesham Township, New Jersey". National Park Service.

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Media related to Jacob Wills House at Wikimedia Commons
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NJ-597, "Jacob Wills House, Marlton, Burlington County, NJ", 6 photos, 21 measured drawings, 4 data pages, supplemental material

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Places of worship	Arney's Mount Friends Meetinghouse and Burial Ground Coopertown Meetinghouse Cropwell Friends Meeting House Evesham Friends Meeting House Jacob's Chapel A.M.E. Church Main Street Friends Meeting House Moorestown Friends School and Meetinghouse Protestant Community Church of Medford Lakes Providence Presbyterian Church of Bustleton St. Mary of the Lakes Catholic Church St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
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