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This colonial stone building is one of the oldest in Jersey City. Legend has it that in 1779 George Washington and Marquis de Lafayette met to discuss strategy under a large apple tree that stood in the garden. When Lafayette toured the United States in 1824 he was presented with a cane made from the tree, which had blown down three years before. The inscription read, "Shaded the hero and his friend Washington in 1779; presented by the Corporation of Bergen in 1824."

Thanks in part to $1.3 million in UEZ funding, the Apple Tree House is now being restored in accordance with the Department of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. Restoration work is currently in progress.