{"nrhp_refnum":"79001651","name":"Purdy, Jacob, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"60 Park Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"White Plains","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":41.03676737700005,"lon":-73.77340051099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-08-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-and-one-half-story frame farmhouse, built in 1721 by Samuel Horton and later enlarged around 1750, now at 60 Park Avenue in White Plains, Westchester County, New York. It was moved in 1973 to a hilltop lot to avoid destruction.","why_significant":"The house is believed to be the oldest residence in White Plains and the only structure surviving from the city's original settlement. It served as General Washington's headquarters during the Revolutionary War, in 1776 and again in 1778. It also retains much early fabric and typifies modest vernacular farmhouses of the lower Hudson Valley.","narrative":"This small farmhouse in White Plains, New York, dates to 1721, when Samuel Horton built it on a 132-acre farm in the early settlement founded by people from Rye. It is one and one-half stories high, shingled, with a gable roof and three chimneys. Around 1750 an addition created a separate kitchen and parlor, and a small workroom was added in the nineteenth century. Samuel Purdy later acquired the farm, and his son Jacob owned the house by 1776. The nomination states that General Washington used it as headquarters in 1776 and again in 1778, citing military maps and a British spy report. From 1900 to 1963 it housed several families. A monument committee bought it in 1963, and the city moved it in 1973 to a nearby hilltop to avoid highway construction. Much early material survives, including wide floorboards, moldings, and hand-hewn beams. Only the house itself was nominated, not its new lot.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799","architect_builder":"Samuel Horton and Family","architectural_style":"Vernacular eighteenth-century frame farmhouse","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the City of White Plains and moved in 1973; the form says it will be restored and opened as a historical museum. The status box is marked occupied or unoccupied ambiguously, so current use is not clearly stated.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.713558-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/79001651.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001651/38dc2280ba-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001651/38dc2280ba-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"GaoKyle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_Purdy_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">GaoKyle</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_Purdy_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323185","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Purdy_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16898902"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/purdy-jacob-house-79001651/"}