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Ladd's Castle
Ladd's Castle is located in New Jersey
Ladd's Castle
Location1337 Lafayette Avenue, Colonial Manor, New Jersey
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1688
NRHP reference No.72000794[1]
NJRHP No.1425[2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPOctober 31, 1972
Designated NJRHPMarch 15, 1972

Ladd's Castle (also known as Candor Hall) is a historic building at 1337 Lafayette Avenue in the Colonial Manor section of West Deptford Township, New Jersey.

It was built around 1688 by William Ladd, a surveyor who purportedly helped William Penn to plan out Philadelphia.[3] The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13.
  2. ^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Gloucester County" (PDF). NJ DEP - Historic Preservation Office. April 1, 2010. p. 5. Retrieved October 7, 2010.
  3. ^ Volume 2 of Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, Francis Bazley Lee (Lewis historical publishing company, 1910) , pg. 746 http://books.google.com/books?id=L5E-AAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

See also