Wood Lawn is a historic mansion located off Ryders Lane on the Cook Douglass Campus of Rutgers University in the city of New Brunswick in Middlesex County, New Jersey.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 8, 1978, for its significance in architecture and education.

[4] The house was built by Colonel James Neilson (1784–1862) in 1830 on land purchased in 1720 by his mother's grandfather, Johannis Voorhees.

In 1868, bay window extensions were added by his son, James Neilson (1844–1937), who was a trustee from 1886 until 1937.

The previous Victorian architecture was transformed into its present Classical Revival style.