Wallace House, Somerville

Name: Wallace House
Address: Somerville, United States

#3 among attractions in Somerville

Museum, History museum, Georgian architecture

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The Wallace House is a Georgian style historic house, which served as the headquarters of General George Washington during the second Middlebrook encampment, located at 38 Washington Place, Somerville, Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 2, 1970. ()

Built: 1776 (248 years ago)Coordinates: 40°34'8"N, 74°37'19"W

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Wallace House – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Bridgewater Commons, Old Dutch Parsonage, Nevius Street Bridge, Somerset County Courthouse.

1.1 miN
Shopping, Shopping centre
Bridgewater Commons, Bridgewater
30 min walk • Bridgewater Commons is a fully enclosed shopping mall located in Bridgewater Township, New Jersey. The mall is located at the intersection of Route 22 and Route 202/206 and borders I-287.
~440 ftSW
Historical place, Museum, History museum
Old Dutch Parsonage, Somerville
3 min walk • The Old Dutch Parsonage is a historical house built in 1751, moved about 1913 and now located at 65 Washington Place, Somerville, Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 25, 1971, and noted as "an excellent example of mid-18th-century Flemish Bond brick structure".
0.8 miSW
Bridge
Nevius Street Bridge, Raritan
20 min walk • The Nevius Street Bridge once carried car traffic across the Raritan River between Hillsborough Township and Raritan Borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. In the 1840s a wooden bridge crossed at this location. The current 150-foot-long bridge was built in 1886 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio.
0.6 miE
Antiques, Shopping, Palladian architecture
Somerset County Courthouse, Somerville
16 min walk • The Somerset County Courthouse is located in Somerville, the county seat Somerset County, in New Jersey, United States. Constructed in between 1907 and 1909 in the Neo-classical style Palladian style and is faced with Sylacauga marble.
0.6 miNW
Hiking, Intersection, Hiking trail
Somerville Circle, Bridgewater
16 min walk • The Somerville Circle is a traffic circle located on the border of Bridgewater Township and Raritan, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States, at the intersection of U.S. Routes 202 and 206, and New Jersey Route 28.
0.8 miW
Bridge
John Basilone Veterans Memorial Bridge, Raritan
22 min walk • The John Basilone Veterans Memorial Bridge is a bridge in New Jersey that crosses the Raritan River. The bridge was built in 2005 to replace the smaller Nevius Street Bridge built in 1886. The Nevius Street Bridge today functions as a pedestrian bridge.
0.8 miSW
Hiking, Hiking trail
Raritan River Greenway, Raritan
21 min walk • The Raritan River Greenway is a proposed path in Somerset County, New Jersey that would link Branchburg Township to the East Coast Greenway with the Delaware and Raritan Canal trail in South Bound Brook.
~1290 ftNE
Museum
West End Hose Company Number 3, Somerville
7 min walk • The West End Hose Company Number 3 is a historic two-story brick firehouse located at 15 North Doughty Avenue in the borough of Somerville in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.
~870 ftNE
Library
Somerville Public Library, Somerville
5 min walk • Somerville Public Library is a public library of the Somerset County Library System of New Jersey and is located at 35 West End Avenue in Somerville, New Jersey.

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Which popular attractions are close to Wallace House?

Nearby attractions include Old Dutch Parsonage, Somerville (3 min walk), Somerville Public Library, Somerville (5 min walk), West End Hose Company Number 3, Somerville (7 min walk), Somerset County Courthouse, Somerville (16 min walk).