Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 73001080 Designated NJRHP June 13, 1973 Added to NRHP 24 July 1973 | Built 1740 NJRHP # 604 Opened 1740 | |
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Similar Hopper‑Goetschius House, Naugle House, Vreeland House, Zabriskie Tenant House, Abram Demaree House | ||
An evening at the van allen house
The Van Allen House, is located in Oakland, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built around 1740 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1973.
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History
The Van Allen House was built around 1740 as the home of farmer Hendrik Van Allen. 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. In 1778 and 1779, Bergen County used the house as a court. Edward Day Page, dairy farmer, businessman, and Oakand's second mayor, owned the house as well as the northern fourth of Oakland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It was saved from demolition by the Oakland Historical society with aid from the Woman's Club of Oakland. It is now maintained as a museum displaying colonial Dutch life.