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The Drake House Museum
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
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Location	602 West Front Street, Plainfield, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°36′49″N 74°25′56″W / 40.61361°N 74.43222°W / 40.61361; -74.43222
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1746 (1746)
Architectural style	Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.	73001135
NJRHP No.	2695
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 19, 1973
Designated NJRHP	January 29, 1973

The Drake House Museum is located at 602 West Front Street in the city of Plainfield in Union County, New Jersey. The house was built in 1746 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 19, 1973, for its significance in architecture. It now operated as the Drake House Museum and is the headquarters of the Historical Society of Plainfield, though the building is owned by the City of Plainfield. The most famous piece in the Society's collection is the painting, "The Death of General Sedgwick" by Julian Scott.

History

Issac Drake built the home in 1746 for his son Nathaniel Drake on the Old York Road. The original home was a 1+1⁄2-story building with four rooms and a lean-to kitchen. George Washington stayed at the home during the Battle of Short Hills in 1777. John S. Harberger purchased the home in 1864 and remodeled the building. Harberger's additions to the building included a mansard roof, ballroom, a 3-story tower in the rear of the building and a turret on the side of the home.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Union County, New Jersey
• List of the oldest buildings in New Jersey
• List of museums in New Jersey
• List of Washington's Headquarters during the Revolutionary War

References

1. "National Register Information System – (#73001135)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Union County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection – Historic Preservation Office. March 23, 2022. p. 9.
3. Detwiller, Jr, Charles H. (March 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Nathaniel Drake House". National Park Service. With accompanying photo
4. "THE DRAKE HOUSE". Drake House Museum. Retrieved 29 April 2011.
5. "Information about the Drake House". The Drake House Museum Home of the Historical Society of Plainfield. Archived from the original on 15 August 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2011.

External links

• Drake House Museum
• The Battle of Short Hills

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Landmarks	Baltusrol Golf Club Boxwood Hall William Livingston House
Districts	Belcher–Ogden Mansion; Benjamin Price House; and Price–Brittan House Historic District Cedar Brook Park Crescent Area Historic District Fanwood Park Historic District Feltville Historic District Green Brook Park Hillside Avenue Historic District Mid-Town Historic District North Avenue Commercial District Plainfield Civic District Stoneleigh Park Historic District Summit Downtown Historic District Van Wyck Brooks Historic District
Places of worship	All Souls Church First Congregation of the Presbyterian Church at Springfield First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth First Presbyterian Congregation of Connecticut Farms Grace Episcopal Church Saint Mary's Catholic Church Complex Scotch Plains Baptist Church, Parsonage, and Cemetery Wallace Chapel AME Zion Church
Houses	Badgley House and Site Belcher–Ogden House Caldwell Parsonage Crane-Phillips House John De Camp House Nathaniel Drake House Charles N. Fowler House Elizabeth and Gershom Frazee House Deacon Andrew Hetfield House Homestead Farm at Oak Ridge Hutchings Homestead Littel–Lord Farmstead Miller-Cory House Oswald J. Nitschke House Old Baptist Parsonage William Edgar Reeve House Sayre Homestead Seventeenth Century Clark House Nathaniel Smith House St. John's Parsonage George A. Strong House James Townley House Twin Maples Orville T. Waring House Whyman House Woodruff House
Buildings	Droescher's Mill Elizabeth Station Fanwood Station Firehouse No. 4 Merchants and Drovers Tavern Murray Hill Station Netherwood Station Plainfield Central Fire Headquarters Plainfield Masonic Temple Plainfield Station Rahway Theatre Scotch Plains School Shady Rest Golf and Country Club Stage House Inn Summit Playhouse Union County Park Commission Administration Buildings Westfield Fire Headquarters Young Women's Christian Association of Plainfield and North Plainfield
Sites	Burial Ground of the Presbyterian Church in the West Fields of Elizabethtown Evergreen Cemetery Reeves-Reed Arboretum
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• Plainfield, New Jersey
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