Jacobus Vanderveer House
Jacobus Vanderveer House is located in Somerset County, New Jersey
Jacobus Vanderveer House
Jacobus Vanderveer House is located in New Jersey
Jacobus Vanderveer House
Jacobus Vanderveer House is located in the United States
Jacobus Vanderveer House
Nearest cityPluckemin, New Jersey
Coordinates40°40′0″N 74°38′42″W / 40.66667°N 74.64500°W / 40.66667; -74.64500
Area19 acres (7.7 ha)
Built1779 (1779)
Architectural styleColonial, Federal
NRHP reference No.95001137[1]
NJRHP No.2808[2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPSeptember 29, 1995
Designated NJRHPJuly 13, 1995

The Jacobus Vanderveer House, also known as Knox House, is a U.S. Federal style house located just north of the community of Pluckemin in Bedminster Township, Somerset County, New Jersey at the junction of US 202 and 206 north of River Road. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 29, 1995, and noted as an "excellent example of a Dutch–American house".[3] The Vanderveer /Knox House & Museum while owned by Bedminster Township, is operated under the direction of the Friends of the Jacobus Vanderveer House, a 501-C3 non-profit organization. The Jacobus Vanderveer House is situated on part of the 218 acres (0.88 km2) that make up River Road Park. The house was thought to be built somewhere in the mid-1770s by James (Jacobus) Vanderveer, son to Jacobus Vanderveer after the property was willed to him by his father.

The house is notable as being the headquarters for General Henry Knox during the second Middlebrook encampment during the Revolutionary War (1778–79).[3] Knox was in command of the Continental Army Artillery Cantonment, what is now known as America's first military training academy, the forerunner to the United States Military Academy at West Point. What was then known as the Pluckemin Continental Artillery Cantonment Site is near the Vanderveer/Knox house, which happens to be the only remaining original structure on the fringe of the cantonment.

Each year, the Jacobus Vanderveer House hosts a "colonial christmas" event to raise funds for the ongoing maintenance and preservation of the historic site. The event includes tree-lighting ceremony, traditional christmas decorations and other festivities.[4]

See also

Other houses used as headquarters during the second Middlebrook encampment (1778–79):

References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ↑ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Somerset County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection – Historic Preservation Office. February 12, 2018. p. 1.
  3. 1 2 Greiff, Constance M. (September 29, 1995). "NRHP Nomination: Jacobus Vanderveer House". National Park Service. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) "Accompanying 15 photos, from 1994". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ↑ "Colonial Christmas at the Jacobus Vanderveer House". NJ Family. Retrieved 2022-03-01.

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