Washington's head-quarters

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“Washington’s head-quarters. This view is from the Reading rail-road, looking east, and includes a portion of the range of hills in the rear whereon the Americans were encamped. The main building was erected in 1770; the wing is more modern, and occupies the place of the log addition mentioned by Mrs. Washington, in a letter to Mercy Warren, written in March, 1778: ‘The general’s apartment,’ she wrote, ‘is very small; he has had a log cabin built to dine in, which has made our quarters much more tolerable than they were at first.’"—Lossing, 1851

Source

Benson J. Lossing, The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851)II:332

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