{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Meadowburn Farm | nrhp_type = | image = Meadowburn Farm, Vernon Township, NJ.jpg | caption = | location = Meadowburn Road, Vernon Township, New Jersey | locmapin = USA New Jersey Sussex County#USA New Jersey#USA | built = | architect = Helena Rutherfurd Ely | architecture = Colonial Revival, Federal | added = August 9, 1993 | area = {{convert|5|acre}} | refnum = 93000748<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2013a|refnum=93000748}}</ref> | designated_other1_name = New Jersey Register of Historic Places | designated_other1_abbr = NJRHP | designated_other1_link = New Jersey Register of Historic Places | designated_other1_date = June 28, 1993 | designated_other1_number = 2637<ref name=NJRHP>{{cite web | title=New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Sussex County | url=https://www.nj.gov/dep/hpo/1identify/nrsr_lists/SUSSEX.pdf#page=8 | publisher=New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office | page=8 | date=June 22, 2023 }}</ref> | designated_other1_num_position = bottom | designated_other1_color = #ffc94b }}
The '''Meadowburn Farm''' is a historic {{convert|5|acre|adj=on}} farmstead located on Meadowburn Road in Vernon Township in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 9, 1993, for its significance in landscape architecture and literature.<ref name="nris"/> The flower gardens were first created by the author and gardener Helena Rutherfurd Ely.<ref name="mbf">{{cite web |title=About Meadowburn |url=https://www.meadowburnfarm.com/about |publisher=Meadowburn Farm LLC}}</ref>
==History and description== The farm dates to the 1750s when William Willet DeKay, son of Thomas DeKay, built a small house here, now part of the farmhouse. The DeKay family owned the property until 1853, when it was sold to Mary and Louisa Rutherfurd, daughters of U.S. Senator John Rutherfurd. They named the farm Meadowburn. After their deaths, their nephew John Rutherford, inherited the property. In 1881, the farmstead was given to his daughter Helena Rutherfurd Ely as a wedding present.<ref name="mbf"/>
==See also== * National Register of Historic Places listings in Sussex County, New Jersey
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{Commons category-inline}} * {{Official website}}
{{National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey}} {{NRHP in Sussex County, New Jersey}}
Category:Vernon Township, New Jersey Category:Buildings and structures in Sussex County, New Jersey Category:National Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, New Jersey Category:Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey Category:New Jersey Register of Historic Places