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Adam Kurtz House

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
76002233

Added to NRHP
  
17 May 1976

Built
  
c. 1757 (1757)

VLR #
  
138-0025

Adam Kurtz House

Location
  
NE corner of Braddock and Cork Sts., Winchester, Virginia

Part of
  
Winchester Historic District (#80004318)

Adam Kurtz House, also known as Washington's Headquarters, is a historic home located at Winchester, Virginia. It was built about 1757, and is of hewn-log construction. It consists of three rooms, with the westernmost room having two of its three exterior walls of stone construction. It sits on a rubble limestone foundation.

The house served as George Washington's headquarters while he was supervising the construction of Fort Loudoun in 1756-57.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is located in the Winchester Historic District.

References

Adam Kurtz House Wikipedia