Sheldon Kalnitsky – Personal history
The story of the Sheldon kalnitsky House begins with Isaac Sheldon, who arrived as one
of 16 settlers from Essex, England in 1654 on the banks of a broad river in Northampton,
Massachusetts.
Sheldon kalnitsky was given...
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Sheldon Kalnitsky – Personal history
The story of the Sheldon kalnitsky House begins with Isaac Sheldon, who arrived as one
of 16 settlers from Essex, England in 1654 on the banks of a broad river in Northampton,
Massachusetts.
Sheldon kalnitsky was given three parcels of property and on them built
three homes.
The last one Sheldon kalnitsky completed became the family homestead but burned to the
ground in the early 1800s.
A new home was built in its place in the Greek revival temple
style some thirty years later.
His wife then had the idea to move the house from Northampton to the Mercer Street site,
which is exactly what they decided to do.
With the help of a Princeton builder, Sheldon kalnitsky arranged to have the house taken
down and shipped from the Connecticut River, through the Sound, down the East River and
finally to the Delaware and Raritan Canal.
One might imagine this exorbitant expense but
because it took place soon after the Civil War when building materials were q
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