John Kane House Museum
126 E Main St, Pawling, NY 12564, USA
New York, USA
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EST. 1740
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EST. 1740
September 20–November 28, 1778
Washington, George
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at John Kane House Museum.
The original eighteenth-century frame house survives as a local museum in Pawling, New York. The Historical Society of Quaker Hill and Pawling preserves furnished rooms, collections, architectural fabric, and grounds interpreting the Kane family, community development, and the building’s Revolutionary-period associations.
About John Kane House Museum
The property was first settled in the late 1730s by William Prendergast, a tenant farmer who leased 200–300 acres southeast of the nascent settlement of Pawling from the Philipse family, the area's dominant landowners. He built the small house that became the kitchen wing in 1740, adding other buildings later and connecting the two through a 65-foot stone passageway.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at John Kane House Museum
Kane, an Irish immigrant, bought the house later that year. When the Revolution started, he was initially on the Patriotside, as he had been elected to the Provisional Congress of New York in 1775. After the first year of the war, he switched sides and became a Loyalist, convinced the cause was hopeless. Accordingly, his house and property were confiscated by the New York State Legislature, and the following year, in September 1778, George Washington moved in when the Continental Army wintered in the area, where they could move on either New England or New York City at short notice.
Kane retreated to the safety of British lines for the remainder of the war, while his family went to Nova Scotia. He received a lifelong pension from the British in 1783, when the war ended, and returned to the Pawling area. Since he could not legally live in or repurchase his home, he lived the remainder of his life with his children.
A later owner in the early 19th century demolished all but the original kitchen wing and built the current Federal structure. It went through a variety of later uses, as an inn and a rental property owned by the local bank, but returned to single-family dwelling status late in the century.
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