New York home that served as an office for George Washington during the Revolution sells

Daily Mail ^ | 5 January 2018 | Alastair Tancred

[mairdie]

An 18th-century stone home along the Hudson river - reputed to have been the temporary office of first President George Washington - has sold for the full asking price of $1.6 million.

The house in Snedens Landing, NY, was used by Washington when his soldiers were guarding ferries around the Palisades cliffs from British troops.

It was more recently lived in for 60 years by landscape designed and photographer Judy Tomkins, who died aged 90 last year.

The 2,400-square-foot property was originally built in the 1780s, and sits on nearly 1 acre of beautifully landscaped surroundings.

[mairdie]

The property comes complete with outhouses

George Washington used the house as an office to plan his battle against the British

[katykelly]

Lovely .

[Diana in Wisconsin]

So much History! I’ll bet it’s just stunning in Real Life. :)

[mairdie]

George Washington presidential library opens , September 27th 2013

I've never tried posting a direct link to a Daily Mail video, so fingers crossed

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Exterior shot...

[Bigg Red]

Beautiful. I would love to visit this house, as I am currently obsessed with visiting every place I can that Washington visited.

[mairdie]

George Washington re-enactors cross Delaware River

[Diana in Wisconsin]

More exterior...

[mairdie]

PERFECT GOAL! Love it!

[bigbob]

It’s amazing that places like that still exist!

[Tijeras_Slim]

What a perfect place to reside.

[21twelve]

Living out in NJ years ago we would try to get to various restaurants (”inns”) where George Washington had frequented. It was cool to think that he had been in the same room that we were in. I suppose some of them might have been scams, but most of them had newspaper articles posted up on the wall to verify it.

We took our kids back there a couple of summers ago and were in New York (saw the museum where he was sworn in as president, his church, etc.) - then crossed the Delaware and stopped at that museum, then to Philadelphia, to Valley Forge, then Washington DC.

I bet old George would be amazed and angry to see D.C. now - with two square blocks for one 5 story building to house bureaucrats ruling over farms.

Driving back to Seattle and all the cities and amazing wide open land and amazing scenery - I bet George would also be gladly amazed at how things turned out. Pretty unbelievable in the 240 years!

I'm glad that house is in NY. Here in Seattle they would tear it down and put up 8 mega-mansions on that acre.

[mairdie]

No pictures for the 14 February 2014 Daily Mail article

WASHINGTON (AP) — An original letter written by George Washington that initiated a spy network during the Revolutionary War is going on display for a limited time at the International Spy Museum in Washington.

The museum says Washington’s letter, written on Feb. 4, 1777, launched the nation’s first spy network. While then-Gen. Washington was commander in chief of the Continental Army, he wrote to confidant Nathaniel Sackett, commissioning him to spy for his country as Washington’s “intelligence director.”

Sackett was to be paid $50 per month to create a spy network in New York. He was given a $500 bonus up front.

The museum acquired the fragile document in 2002 from Sackett’s family. It’s usually kept in storage for preservation. The document will be on view from President’s Day weekend through March.

[mass55th]

I love old homes. Brings to mind the 1942 comedy film titled: “George Washington Slept Here” with Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn, Percy Kilbride, Hattie McDaniel, etc.

[RegulatorCountry]

The 2,400-square-foot property was originally built in the 1780s

Beautiful home, but somebody doesn't know history. George Washington wasn't there in the 1780's.

For this house (or the oldest part of it most likely) to have played the role it's been purported to have played, it would have been built in the 1770's.

[mairdie]

U.S president Washington voted Britain's greatest enemy commander

[Hieronymus]

I’m glad someone else still knows how numbers work. You saved me posting—I’m surprised it took 15 minutes for someone to make this point.

[mass55th]

"Living out in NJ years ago we would try to get to various restaurants (”inns”) where George Washington had frequented."

I've always wanted to get to Fraunces Tavern in NY City, but never had the chance. Have you been there?

[mairdie]

Ona Judge: The slave who ran away from George Washington

Photos are all AP.

[mairdie]

My 4th great grandaunt. The sister she moved in with was my 4th great grandmother.

"Mother, at our request, would tell us of her early years. At the age of two, she was left an orphan. Her father, when he was dying, committed her to the care of General and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton. When Gen. Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury, and Gen. Washington, President of the United States, they lived opposite to each other in Philadelphia, and the children of the two families were together every day. Mrs. Washington took the Custis children, and Angelica Hamilton, and Fanny Antill, (my mother,) in her carriage to dancing-school twice a week. She stayed with them through the lesson and brought them home.

"Mother remembered Gen. Washington once sitting on a sofa in the room where the children were playing, and laying aside his newspaper, to watch them, and smile and encourage them to continue their frolic. Once, on a reception evening, when the drawing-room in his house was filled with ladies and gentlemen, talking and laughing, and the children were amusing themselves in a corner, there was a sudden great stillness - and mother looked up with surprise and awe, and saw Gen. Washington coming through the folding doors.

"From the time mother was twelve years old, until she was married, she resided with her sister, Mrs. Lansing, who, with her husband, filled well the place of the tenderest father and mother to her.

They had four children, who were near her own age.

"Father liked to tell us of his first meeting mother in church. They sat opposite each other in a square pew. He said he was attracted by her bright black eyes, and cheerful and animated expression. She was naturally bright and cheerful, generous and unselfish. It was her constant aim to make a happy home for her husband and children - a home where friends were ever welcome, and the poor and sorrowful found help and comfort. When father was absent, and there was not any guest to officiate, mother always led in prayer at family worship."