National Register of Historic Places

Odell House

Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York
Listed
March 27, 1973
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
73001286

About this property

The Odell House is a historic house museum located at 425 Ridge Road in Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York. The house and surrounding farmland (at the time known as the Bates farm) served as the headquarters of Comte de Rochambeau and campsite for the French expeditionary forces, Expédition Particulière, under his command during the American Revolutionary War, from July 6 to August 18, 1781. While Rochambeau and his forces were camped at the Bates farm, General George Washington and the Continental Army camped nearby at the Appleby Farm (in present-day Ardsley). The combined campsite became known as the Philipsburg Encampment as it was situated on the land of the massive colonial landholding, Philipsburg Manor. The encampment stretched for miles from North Castle/Mount Kisco (east) to the Hudson River, and from the Croton River (north) toward White Plains and Dobbs Ferry. It was here that the French forces under Rochambeau and the American forces under Washington united for the first time during the war before launching the victorious Yorktown campaign. The Odell House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. In 2026, it became a public museum, Odell House Rochambeau Headquarters, preserving the legacy of the Franco-American alliance in the Revolutionary War.

Location

425 Ridge Rd.
Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York
41.01948, -73.81725

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Odell House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 27, 1973.

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