For Sale: Rowan University's Woodbury Mansion

The mansion on Cooper Street was home to the university's president for more than a decade.

The domino effect of the proposed merger between Rowan University and Rutgers University-Camden has hit home. With its search for a new president on hold amid the merger talks, Rowan is selling the Woodbury mansion that housed its leader for more than a decade. The stately home on Cooper Street—across from the defunct Woodbury Country Club—went on the market last week, and is listed with Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors. The asking price is $799,900, about $115,000 more than Rowan paid when it bought the home in December 2000 for Donald Farish, who had become the university’s president two years earlier. The Colonial-style mansion has been vacant since June 2011, when Farish moved out after leaving the university to take a job as president …

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