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You could spend a year of Saturdays visiting NJ historical sites that exist. But it does come down to funding, and which social services/road repairs/flood abatement/mass transit subsidies are you willing to shrink to pay for it? We can't raise taxes, we're already the highest taxed in the nation practically. Thankfully many people donate their time and money to achieve what we already enjoy.

New Jersey is absolutely terrible when it comes to history. There is more of it here than just about anywhere and instead of playing upon it or trying to keep it known, they just let it die.

If anyone has ever been the re-enactment of Washington Crossing the Delaware, you can plainly see a monstrous difference between what PA has done with its side of the river and NJ has done. It is embarrassing.

Jersey City's Apple Tree House -- a property of historical importance dating back to the Revolutionary War -- has been burglarized for a second time within two months, according to a police report.

On Tuesday at around 9:27 p.m., police were dispatched to the historic building on Academy Street after an architect for the Jersey City Department of Public Works reported a break-in there, a police report stated.

The architect told police that between 3 and 9:27 p.m., someone smashed a rear window panel of the building and then reached in and opened the rear door, officers said.

The door was found ajar and undamaged, and when officers entered the building and checked the basement area and both floors of the premises, they found nothing missing or damaged, the report stated.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... thin_2_months_police.html

Jersey City bought the house and property in 1999, with the goal to restore it.

15 years, how many mayors and councilmen, and nothing has been done?

(Do note, though, that 'Preservation NJ' doesn't have it on their list of the 10 most endangered historical sites in NJ. The Central Railroad of NJ site in LSP, however, is).

Any other town would of had this place up and running already. You would think a historical state like New Jersey would have some more respect for a building as grand as the Apple Tree House. I am glad the Anne Frank House is not located here.

will there ever be any plan to do anything about this house or will it just be subject to vandalism and weather until the city is forced to tear it down?

Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal

Jersey City?s Apple Tree House sustained minor damage during a burglary at the property famed for a meeting between George Washington and General Marquis de Lafayette during the Revolutionary War, officials said.

Police responded to the building at 298 Academy St. on March 24 on a report of a burglary and spoke to a city employee who said that the premises had been broken into sometime between March 21 and March 24, a police report says.

The city employee said someone forced a window in the rear of the building and ripped out wiring to the alarm and fire system in the mechanical room, before stealing a transformer of unknown value, the report says.

Legend has it that Washington and Lafayette met at the Apple Tree House during the Revolutionary War to discuss war strategy while dining beneath an apple tree in the front yard.

The meeting, which took place sometime between Aug. 24 and 26, 1780, in what was then called "Bergen," can be verified through their correspondence, according to a New Jersey City University history website.

The generals sought to resolve supply issues and coax the British into attacking Bergen from their stronghold in New York. The nearby "point of rocks" that overlooked the river near the east end of Academy Street was a useful vantage point for military reconnaissance.