Get to Know Frenchtown

Frenchtown looks like a town of life-sized dollhouses: A little borough covering just over a square mile, it has a downtown lined with colorful Victorians, each gaily decorated with shutters in contrasting colors and gingerbread trim along the rooflines. This is a town of artists and writers; recently, Frenchtown was home to Eat, Pray, Love’s Elizabeth Gilbert (after she ate, prayed, and loved), and it also inspired James Agee and Nathanael West, who lived here in the 1930s. Fittingly, Frenchtown has an excellent bookstore and ArtYard, a contemporary art center with an exhibition space, theater, and residency program. New Yorkers longing for the country life have long turned to Frenchtown as their secret retreat and the town’s tiny size belies its sophistication, serving as a getaway for city folks in the know. Recently, more and more residents have decided to stay year-round, charmed by Frenchtown’s beautiful surroundings.

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Living in the Delaware River Towns

The Delaware River winds between New Jersey and Pennsylvania, serving as the dividing line between the two states. Ever since 1776, when George Washington crossed from today’s Bucks County, Pennsylvania, into today’s Mercer County, New Jersey, the two sides of this middle stretch of river have been tied together. Today, locals drive, bike, and walk — and sometimes, like Washington himself, boat — across the Delaware with frequent regularity, treating the two sides as one region. There’s a smattering of delightful little towns situated on both sides of the river that were founded as stops between New York and Philadelphia, during the heyday of the railroads and the Delaware and Raritan Canal. In the past few decades, the towns have experienced a renaissance as city dwellers have realized that just an hour’s drive leads to this bucolic region with world-class dining and shopping, rolling farmland, and gorgeous, historic houses.