The Hermitage (Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey)

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location= 335 North Franklin Turnpike, Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey
lat_degrees = 41
lat_minutes = 0
lat_seconds = 23.98
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 74
long_minutes = 7
long_seconds = 10
long_direction = W
locmapin = New Jersey
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built =1845
architect= William H. Ranlett [http://www.nr.nps.gov/writeups/70000379.nl.pdf NHL writeup] ]
architecture= Gothic Revival [http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceID=942&resourceType=Building NHL Summary] ]
added = August 29, 1970
designated = May 22, 1970
governing_body = Private
refnum=70000379cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

The Hermitage, located in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, is a National Historic Landmark. The site is listed on the State Register and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 as Building #70000379. [ [http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/nj/Bergen/state3.html NEW JERSEY - Bergen County] , National Register of Historic Places. Accessed November 9, 2007.] The fourteen-room Gothic Revival home was built in 1747-48 from designs by William H. Ranlett for Elijah Rosencrantz Jr.

In 1767, the house was purchased by Ann Bartow DeVisme who moved to Ho-Ho-Kus from Manhattan with five children. One of Ann's daughters, Theodosia Bartow, and her husband James Marcus Prevost, occupied another house on the property, downhill from the present structure, nearer to the mill ponds. During the American Revolutionary War, while Major (later Lieutenant Colonel) Prevost was fighting for the British in Georgia and South Carolina, the women and children were left alone in Ho-Ho-Kus. [ [http://thehermitage.org/PeopleBody.htm A Brief History of The Hermitage] , The Hermitage. Accessed November 9, 2007.]

In July of 1778, word reached Theodosia that George Washington and his troops would be passing through Ho-Ho-Kus on their way from the recent battle at Monmouth Courthouse to White Plains in Westchester County. When the General and his entourage stopped at a local house, Theodosia sent an invitation to Washington for him and his men to come and stay at The Hermitage.

Among the visitors to the house during the Revolution were James Monroe, William Paterson, the Marquis de Lafayette, Alexander Hamilton, Lord Stirling and Aaron Burr. In 1782, after her husband was killed during the War, Theodosia and Aaron Burr were married at The Hermitage. For a period of time they lived in a small house adjacent to The Hermitage. [ [http://www.museumregister.com/US/NewJersey/Ho-Ho-Kus/Hermitage/Info.html. Accessed June 4, 2008.]

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External links

* [http://www.thehermitage.org/ The Hermitage website]