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The Van Allen House is located in Oakland, Bergen County,
New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...
, United States. The house was built around 1740 and was added to the
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on July 24, 1973.


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 George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of ...
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. There were several branches of the family in the Paterson Passaic Bergen, New Jersey area.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Bergen County, New Jersey __NOTOC__ The table below includes sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bergen County, New Jersey except those in Closter, Franklin Lakes, Ridgewood, Saddle River and Wyckoff, which are listed separately (links to th ...
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List of Washington's Headquarters during the Revolutionary War The following is a list of buildings or locations that served as headquarters for General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. Background On April 19, 1775, the militia of Massachusetts – later joined by the militias ...
* 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.


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* * * * Houses completed in 1740 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey Houses in Bergen County, New Jersey National Register of Historic Places in Bergen County, New Jersey Oakland, New Jersey New Jersey Register of Historic Places {{NewJersey-NRHP-stub