This marked appearance has gained Wood Lawn a listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Today Wood Lawn is the home of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, an active and respected education, research and public service unit of the University, nationally recognized for its activities in the field of American politics. Eagleton conducts innovative and practical research, educates students, and informs policymakers and the public. The Institute was established in 1956 by Florence Peshine Eagleton, a suffragist and founder of New Jersey's League of Women Voters. The Eagleton Institute of Politics and its Wood Lawn home are inextricable, well known across and beyond New Jersey as a place for celebrating politics and strengthening democracy.
Information contained here is drawn from two sources.
A Preservation Plan for Wood Lawn was prepared for the Eagleton Institute of Politics by Ford Farewill Mills and Gatsch Architects of Princeton, NJ in 1997.