It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 20, 2013, for its significance in architecture.

His father, Adrian Vermeule (1741–1777), was captured in January 1777 during the American Revolutionary War and died a prisoner of war in the sugar house prisons in New York City.

His son, John M. Vermeule (1801-1833), later inherited the property, but had to sell it in 1824 to James Vail (1773–1850).

In 1855, it was purchased by Morris Cohen, who sold it in 1868 to land investors, Michael F. Marcley and Martin M. Thorn.

Green Brook Township purchased the property from Gilbert I. Mundy in 2008.