Joseph Webb House
Near Hartford, Connecticut
In Wethersfield, Connecticut, a Georgian clapboard house built in seventeen fifty-two played a brief but documented role in the American Revolution. In May of seventeen eighty-one, George Washington met with French General Rochambeau at the Joseph Webb House for a multi-day conference that began the planning for combined Franco-American operations. That cooperation led to the Yorktown campaign, which ended the war.
Washington used the Webb house as his headquarters and slept in an upstairs room still furnished much as he left it. The house passed through several families before being preserved by the Colonial Dames of America, and it is now part of the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum. It is part of the Wethersfield Historic District, a town that holds one of the largest concentrations of pre-Revolutionary architecture in New England.
