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From: "Michael Burdge" <>
Subject: photo of The Landis House, 1064 Old York Rd, Ringoes, Hunterdon Co, NJ - built 1750
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 23:49:33 -0400


Does someone have a good photo of this house that can be sent to me via email attachment? - or who can take a photo, or scan a postcard or something?

I am doing a genealogy gift for an elderly lady in Ohio and would like to have a photo of her ancestor's colonial home.

Historical marker at the Landis House, Ringoes, NJ:
Landis House
Built about 1750 by Henry Landis, local saddler. Lafayette, stayed here while being treated by Dr. Gershom Craven.

The Brethren Encyclopedia (1984), pg 723:
The Landis House [1064 Old York Rd, Ringoes]
The story-and-a-half stone house with a gambrel roof built by Heinrich Landes at Ringoes, NJ, about 1750 has become a registered national historic landmark. It is said to have been used by George Washington as a temporary headquarters following the battle of Monmouth (1778). The French military figure Marquis de Lafayette was also a visitor. He once fell ill and spent several days in the house recuperating, attended by a physician named Gershom Graves. The house was also used as a prison for English soldiers. The original hasps and locks are still to be seen in the basement stonework. According to a local historian, Landes was much respected by his neighbors. "Though religiously opposed to wars and fightings, and consequently taking no part in the Revolution, he was a favorite of Washington, who, when in the neighborhood, would stop at this house; and when but taking observations, would walk up to him and pat him familiarly on the back, and call him a good fellow, or !
something of that sort." DFD J. W. Lequear, Traditions of Hunterdon, (1957), pg 15.

Thanks
Mick Burdge
Dayton, Ohio

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