This 1796 house has been moved out of the way of progress twice, once in the 1890s and again in the 1960s. You don’t see a lot of houses being moved these days, but at one time every city had a few companies with this specialization.
I don’t know why 1776 is in quotation marks, or even appears on this card at all. This was Washington’s Headquarters in 1782 and 1783, after the Revolutionary War was over. At one point the soldiers, not having been paid for a long time, circulated a few letters proposing a revolt, which came to be known as the Newburgh Conspiracy. Washington made a surprise appearance and talked everyone down, in sharp contrast to a more recent president who confronted a conspiratorial mob and talked them up.
