Nearest city Pluckemin, New Jersey NRHP Reference # 95001137 Designated NJRHP July 13, 1995 Area 8 ha Added to NRHP 29 September 1995 | Built 1779 (1779) NJRHP # 2808 Opened 1779 Phone +1 908-396-6053 | |
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Address 1 River Road Park, Bedminster Township, NJ 07921, United States Architectural styles Federal architecture, American Colonial Similar Rockingham, Brick Academy, Old Dutch Parsonage, Wallace House, Cornelius Low House Profiles | ||
The Jacobus Vanderveer House, also known as Knox House, is a Federal style house located just north of the community of Pluckemin, in Bedminster Township, Somerset County, New Jersey at the junction of US 202 and 206 north of River Road. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Vanderveer /Knox House & Museum while owned by Bedminster Township, is operated under the direction of the Friends of the Jacobus Vanderveer House, a 501-C3 non-profit organization. The Jacobus Vanderveer House is situated on part of the 218 acres (0.88 km2) that make up River Road Park. The house was thought to be built somewhere in the mid-1770s by James (Jacobus) Vanderveer, son to Jacobus Vanderveer after the property was willed to him by his father.
The house is famous as being the winter residence for General Henry Knox during the winter of 1778-1779 while he was commanding Continental Army Artillery Cantonment and what is now known as America's first military training academy, the forerunner to the United States Military Academy at West Point. What was then known as the Pluckemin Continental Artillery Cantonment Site is near the Vanderveer/Knox house, which happens to be the only remaining original structure on the fringe of the cantonmnent.