* The following text is adapted from "A Guide to Lawrenceville's Historic Landmarks," published by the Township in 1992. Photos were provided by Lawrenceville Main Street and are more recent than those in the guide.

The village of Lawrenceville not only has buildings of individual significance but it also has a distinctive historic character that sets it apart from its surroundings. The village has maintained its extraordinary form and this has resulted in its listing as a historic district at the national, state, and most recently, at the local level. Most unusual is the survival of farmland that traces back to seventeenth century land transactions. Many houses, taverns, and farm houses of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are scattered throughout the district along with one of the state’s oldest Presbyterian churches and two cemeteries.

When listed in the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places in 1972, the Main Street Historic District was one of the first registered historic districts in the State. The local historic district fronts along Main Street and the Lawrenceville-Princeton Road (Route 206) for more than two miles between Franklin Corner Road and an area slightly north of Fackler Road. Homes situated more than 250 feet from the road are excluded, however. One exception is the section of The Lawrenceville School known as the Circle and several other buildings in its vicinity, the oldest buildings on the campus. This area itself has been designated a National Historic Landmark.