Francis Hopkinson House

Francis Hopkinson House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Francis Hopkinson House in 1970
Location	101 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown, New Jersey
Coordinates
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1750
Architect	John Imlay
NRHP Reference #	71000496
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	July 17, 1971
Designated NHL	July 17, 1971

The Francis Hopkinson House is an historic home in Bordentown, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, where Francis Hopkinson and his wife Ann Borden lived from 1774 until his death in 1791.

Francis Hopkinson designed the first official flag of the United States. He created a Stars and Stripes flag with seven white stripes and six red ones for the United States and a Stars and Stripes flag with seven red stripes and six white ones for the Navy (the basis for the current U.S. flag).

Hopkinson was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New Jersey. He was also the first American-born composer of secular music.

During the American Revolution, Hopkinson designed Continental currency, departmental seals, and most of the elements in the Great Seal of the United States. He later served as a federal judge in Pennsylvania.

The house was to be burned by the British in 1778, but was spared by a Hessian officer's appreciation of Hopkinson's library.

It is currently a law office.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Burlington County, New Jersey

External links

• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NJ-64, "Francis Hopkinson House, Park Street & Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown, Burlington County, NJ", 3 photos, 16 measured drawings, 4 data pages, supplemental material