Albert Einstein House even though it is owned by IAS, and is not open to public. There is no marker, however strategically placed plaques state "Private Residence". Albert Einstein House The Albert Einstein House at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States was the home of Albert Einstein from 1935 until his death in 1955. His wife Elsa Einstein died in 1936 while living in this house. The house was built sometime before 1876, as it originally stood on Alexander Street where Stuart Hall of the Princeton Theological Seminary was built in that year, also displacing the house now
Siegbert Einstein by the Nazis in 1938). Einstein planted a weeping willow in 1951, and the space was opened to the public. Today the space belongs to Jost Einstein, Siegbert's grandson, who is the director of the Center for Nature Conservation of Bad Buchau. After the end of the war, Siegbert married Elsa Schlittler; because she was an Aryan, Siegbert had additional privileges under the Nazis. They had two children, Rolf Einstein and Kurt Einstein, who were raised Protestant Christians. He was a distant relative of Albert Einstein. He died on December 24, 1968 at the age of 79 and was the