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Where to Stay in Parsippany, New Jersey
Parsippany-Troy Hills is a township in Morris County, New Jersey, with preserved houses dating from the eighteenth century.
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Where to stay in Parsippany
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Two halves, one township. Parsippany-Troy Hills is a compound name and a compound place, so the first decision is which half of it a stay should sit in rather than which street. The old Parsippany streets hold the buildings worth walking to: the 1783 Isaac Beach House, the 1790 Littleton School house, and the 1870 Condit house are all kept within the town rather than moved to a park somewhere else.
Troy Hills is the other half. Rooms out that way trade the preserved houses for the ordinary comforts of a suburban township, and they suit anyone whose day starts with a drive across Morris County. History is the reason to choose the older side.
The Bowers-Livingston-Osborn House, the Bowlsby-Degelleke House, the Grimes Homestead, and the Benjamin Howell Homestead are all on the township's register, and covering several of them takes a car and an afternoon. You will drive either way. The Illumination Gas Plant of the New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane at Morris Plains rounds the list out, an industrial piece that suits a visitor already interested in the institutional history of northern New Jersey.
Choose the half, then the street.
About Parsippany
Old houses, kept.
What is Parsippany known for?
The township keeps a run of dated buildings, the 1783 Isaac Beach House, the 1790 Littleton School house, and the 1870 Condit house among them, on ground that has been settled since the eighteenth century. Morris County frames the rest. Beyond the preserved houses, Parsippany-Troy Hills runs as a suburban township in the northern portion of New Jersey, with the Grimes Homestead and the Benjamin Howell Homestead standing among the newer building.
What are the main landmarks in Parsippany?
Six entries, all buildings. The Bowers-Livingston-Osborn House, the Stephen Condit House, the Bowlsby-Degelleke House, the Grimes Homestead, and the Benjamin Howell Homestead make up the domestic side of the township's register. One entry is not a house.
The Illumination Gas Plant of the New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane at Morris Plains is the industrial outlier on the list, a service building from an institution rather than a family holding.
What is the history of Parsippany?
Settlement here runs back to the eighteenth century. The 1783 Isaac Beach House is the oldest dated survivor on the township's list, and the 1790 Littleton School house follows it by a few years. Both were kept rather than cleared, which is the reason the township's dated buildings can still be counted one by one.
Names outlast owners. The Bowers-Livingston-Osborn House carries three families in one title, the Bowlsby-Degelleke House two, and the Grimes Homestead and the Benjamin Howell Homestead record the farms that stood before the township took its present shape. A different kind of building came with the nineteenth century.
The 1870 Condit house belongs to that period, and so does the Illumination Gas Plant of the New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane at Morris Plains, an industrial fragment of an institution large enough to make its own gas. The Stephen Condit House sits in the same family record. Two names were eventually joined, and the township that resulted is set down as Parsippany-Troy Hills even though Parsippany is what people use.
What the place holds is a list of addresses rather than a single monument, and that list reaches from the eighteenth century through to the industrial fittings of a state institution. The old houses stayed put.
Where is Parsippany?
Parsippany-Troy Hills covers about sixty-six square kilometres of Morris County, a spread of township ground in the northern portion of New Jersey. One municipality answers to both names. The compound name carries two places at once, and the municipality that resulted takes in more ground than either half would on its own.
Morris Plains appears in the name of one landmark, the Illumination Gas Plant of the New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane at Morris Plains.
What is the climate of Parsippany?
Morris County sits in the temperate band, so the calendar rather than the map does most of the work here. Nothing here is tropical. The year turns through four full seasons in the northern portion of New Jersey, which is the climate the 1783 Isaac Beach House and its neighbours were framed and roofed against.
How do you get to Parsippany?
Arrivals come through Morris County. Parsippany-Troy Hills sits in the northern portion of New Jersey, and the practical approach is by road across Morris County to whichever of the township's centres a stay is aimed at. Distances inside the township are short.
The scattered centres mean the last leg is local driving, between the preserved houses on one side and the newer streets that grew around them on the other.
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Updated August 2026