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Historic house in New Jersey, United States

United States historic place

The Staats House, also known as the General Baron von Steuben Headquarters, is a historic building located at 17 Von Steuben Lane in South Bound Brook, Somerset County, New Jersey.

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Constructed c. 1740, it is now known as the Abraham Staats House after its second owner. In 1779, during the second Middlebrook encampment of the American Revolutionary War, it served as the headquarters for Prussian-American General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 2002, and noted as representing "one of the finest remaining buildings from the second phase of Dutch immigration and settlement in the Raritan Valley".^[3]

History

In 1740, Hendrick Staats was granted the farm from his father, Peter Staats, who was from Brooklyn.

In 1769, Hendrick gave the property to his brother John Sta history of paperclip - Blogger JYQUC