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The house was owned by the Van Wagenen Family and built in 1740 [2] [3] with an addition added in the 1820s. [5] The house has long claimed to be the site of a lunch meeting between George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette in August of 1779 where they discussed war strategy underneath the shade of an apple tree in the front yard of the property.
The Van Blarcom House is a historic stone house located at 834 Franklin Lake Road in the borough of Franklin Lakes in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
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 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 .
Van Cortlandt Manor is a 17th-century house and property built by the Van Cortlandt family located near the confluence of the Croton and Hudson Rivers in the village of Croton-on-Hudson in Westchester County, New York, United States. The colonial era stone and brick manor house is now a museum and is a National Historic Landmark.
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.
West portico. Historically known as Hyde Park, the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site is one of the area's oldest Hudson River estates. [3] The earliest development of the estate began in 1764 when Dr. John Bard purchased land on the east side of the Albany Post Road, where he built Red House and developed the agricultural aspects of the eastern section of the property that continued ...
The Van Allen House was built around 1740 as the home of farmer Hendrik Van Allen. [3] During the Revolutionary War, it served as the headquarters for George Washington on July 14, 1777. At the time, he was moving his troops from Morristown, New Jersey to New York. [4] In 1778 and 1779, Bergen County used the house as a court. [5]