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The Van Veghten House is a historic building in the Finderne section of Bridgewater Township, New Jersey. It was built around 1725 and served as the headquarters of Quartermaster General Nathanael Greene during the second Middlebrook encampment (1778–79) in the American Revolutionary War .
The original structure belonged to an estate owned by the Van Leer family who immigrated from Germany in 1698. [3] [4] The land passed to the Van Leer family in 1720 or 1721, [2] and Dr. Bernardhus Van Leer built the house with the help of his father-in-law, ironmaster William Branson, in c. 1742.
The Lewis and Elizabeth Van Vleet House, also known as the Yee House, is a historic building located in the Eliot neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States, on the plat of the former town of Albina. Built in 1894, it was the home of Lewis Van Vleet (1826–1910), the United States Deputy Surveyor for the Pacific Northwest for 40 years ...
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a government-owned corporation created by U.S. Code Title 16, Chapter 12A, the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.It was initially founded as an agency to provide general economic development to the region through power generation, flood control, navigation assistance, fertilizer manufacturing, and agricultural development.
The log house and barn are the only remaining residential structures in the vicinity of the Town Square. [2] The Van Vleck House was built by Roy Van Vleck, operator of the first "mercantile", or general store, in Jackson. Roy and his new wife, Genevieve Lawton Van Vleck lived in the cabin from 1911 to 1960.
John Van Vechten House is a historic home located at Leeds in Greene County, New York. It was built in 1891 and is a masonry, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story Queen Anne–style dwelling with rectangular massing on a stone foundation. It features large gable wall dormers and a hipped roof with standing seam metal roofing. [2]
Like the Columbia County Historical Society's Luykas Van Alen House in Kinderhook, the steeply-pitched roof, parapet-gabled house is a rare surviving example of a type of rural house characteristic of the upper Hudson Valley in the first half of the 18th century. Van Hoesen House is located on Route 66, north of the City of Hudson.
During the Gilded Age, the house was "Greek Revivaled" with the addition of a white balustrade and a grand porch with pillars, as well as a two-story rear addition built in 1929 and today, the home is roughly 6,000 square feet, [4] and has nineteen rooms. [5] Located behind the house is a former office c. 1840 and two large barns c. 1840. The ...