Dunham House Plaster Restoration
Tax deductible
trinitywoodbridge.org
The Dunham House
The Trinity Church Rectory began as the Jonathan Dunham House around 1670, the year after Woodbridge Township received its charter. Dunham built New Jersey's first grist mill. His son Benjamin was a founder of Trinity. He is an eighth-great-grandfather of President Barack Obama, whose mother's maiden name was Stanley Ann Dunham.
The oldest portion of the current house was built in 1717. The residence was enlarged and modernized after being bought in 1870 by George C. Hance, a wealthy Parishioner. Hance turned over the deed to Trinity in 1873, when it became the Rector's home.
Trinity Church has been striving to complete a major renovation of the house for the last year and a half. The second floor is just about completed. Most of the work being done by volunteers who have devoted most every Saturday to this project.
We are now at the point of needing professional help to complete some of the more complex restoration on the first floor, including the plaster crown molding and ceilings. This needs to be done by highly qualified and skilled professional restoration specialists and is very labor intensive.
We need to work from ceiling to floor as we complete the renovations so this is the next work that needs to be done as soon as we can raise the funds.
Please be as generous as possible and know that you will be helping to save a national historic treasure!
The Dunham House
The Trinity Church Rectory began as the Jonathan Dunham House around 1670, the year after Woodbridge Township received its charter. Dunham built New Jersey's first grist mill. His son Benjamin was a founder of Trinity. He is an eighth-great-grandfather of President Barack Obama, whose mother's maiden name was Stanley Ann Dunham.
The oldest portion of the current house was built in 1717. The residence was enlarged and modernized after being bought in 1870 by George C. Hance, a wealthy Parishioner. Hance turned over the deed to Trinity in 1873, when it became the Rector's home.
Trinity Church has been striving to complete a major renovation of the house for the last year and a half. The second floor is just about completed. Most of the work being done by volunteers who have devoted most every Saturday to this project.
We are now at the point of needing professional help to complete some of the more complex restoration on the first floor, including the plaster crown molding and ceilings. This needs to be done by highly qualified and skilled professional restoration specialists and is very labor intensive.
We need to work from ceiling to floor as we complete the renovations so this is the next work that needs to be done as soon as we can raise the funds.
Please be as generous as possible and know that you will be helping to save a national historic treasure!
Organizer
RevAngela Cipolla
Organizer
Woodbridge, NJ
TRINITY CHURCH
Registered nonprofit
Donations are typically 100% tax deductible in the US.
