The Jacob Ruff House, ca. 1829

Historic Lexington

This house is a fine example of the Valley Federal style with elegant detailing including the fanlight over the front door and a molded brick cornice. When the streets were lowered in 1851, the entrance was reoriented to the ...

National Historic Landmark - Herbert & Katherine Jacobs 2nd House

This was the first house to be built under Wright's concept of the "Solar Hemicycle." Rooms were largely circular or semi circular, oriented towards the sun and protected from the north wind by berms. Wright's use of passive energy to ...

National Historic Landmark - Herbert & Katherine Jacobs 1st House

The Jacobs house is the first Usonian home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that was built based on the principle of providing an artistic house of low cost for an average citizen. The Jacobs house stands out in Wright’s work ...

Jacob Motte House

circa 1731

Standing on land bought from Robert Tradd, which was part of lot 60 of "Grand Modell" of 1672. Early Georgian house built by Jacob Motte, prominent Huguenot and one time royal treasurer of province. Original paneling from second ...

Jacob Schunk Farmhouse

Germantown, Wisconsin

This limestone, Greek Revival dwelling was built by Jacob and Mary Ann Schunk in 1858. The clapboard and stone section was added in 1870. Of special interest are two sets of quarter-circle windows at the attic level. The history ...

The Second Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House

1944

The Herbert and Katherine Jacobs second house possesses national significance as the first house to be built under architect Frank Lloyd Wright's concept of the "Solar Hemicycle". Based on arcs, radii, and circles, the house's design includes a floor-to-roof glass ...

Jacob Snyder House

Jacob Snyder

House

Known in 1802 as

"Yankee Pete Tavern"

Original Inn Destroyed

During Revolution

Marker is on New York Route 443, on the right when traveling west.

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Jacob Kelley House

This house, home of Jacob Kelley (1780-1874), was used as a Union headquarters on March 2-3, 1865 by Major-General John E. Smith, Commander of the Third Division, Fifteenth Army Corps. During the encampment by Federal forces, the mills near Kelley ...

Jacob Purdy House

George Washington’s Headquarters

in White Plains

1776             1778

National Register of Historic Places

White Plains Historical Society

Marker can be reached from Park Avenue, on the left when traveling west.

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Jacob Purdy House (1721)

* A National Historic Site *

* * * * * General George Washington’s Headquarters * * * * *

October 23 – 28, 1776

While preparing for the Battle of White Plains, October 28, 1776

- and later -