Van Allen House
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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. 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. There were several branches of the family in the Paterson Passaic Bergen, New Jersey area. 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. 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.
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Van Allen House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 23, 1973.
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The period of significance for Van Allen House is recorded as the industrial era.
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