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.
Van Allen House | |
 Van Allen House in 2015 | |
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| Location | Corner of U.S. 202 and Franklin Avenue, Oakland, New Jersey |
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| Coordinates | 41°1′47″N 74°14′11″W / 41.02972°N 74.23639°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1740 |
| NRHP reference No. | 73001080[1] |
| NJRHP No. | 604[2] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | July 24, 1973 |
| Designated NJRHP | June 13, 1973 |
History
editThe 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] 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.[3] 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.[6] There were several branches of the family in the Paterson Passaic Bergen, New Jersey area.
See also
edit- National Register of Historic Places listings in Bergen County, New Jersey
- List of Washington's Headquarters during the Revolutionary War
- Van Alen House Another old house with similar family name is in Columbia County, New York, which may have been the loyalist branch of the Van Alen Van Allen family.
- John Evert Van Alen House And another house of the same family, the Van Alen House, in Defreetsville, NY, across from Albany.
Notes
edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Bergen County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. January 10, 2010. p. 5. Retrieved April 20, 2010.
- ^ a b John Madden and Kevin Heffernan (2003). Oakland. p. 35. ISBN 0-7385-1301-6.
- ^ Mark Di Ionno (2000). A Guide to New Jersey's Revolutionary War Trail for Families and History Buffs. p. 21. ISBN 0-8135-2770-8.
- ^ Craig Mitchell (2003). George Washington's New Jersey: A Guide to the Crossroads of the American. p. 64. ISBN 0-9705804-1-X.
- ^ Barbara Westergaard (2006). New Jersey: A Guide to the State. p. 259. ISBN 0-8135-3685-5.
References
edit- John Madden and Kevin Heffernan (2003). Oakland. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-1301-6.
- Mark Di Ionno (2000). A Guide to New Jersey's Revolutionary War Trail for Families and History Buffs. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2770-8.
- Craig Mitchell (2003). George Washington's New Jersey: A Guide to the Crossroads of the American. B B & A Publishers. ISBN 0-9705804-1-X.
- Barbara Westergaard (2006). New Jersey: A Guide to the State. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-3685-5.