Editing White Plains, New York (section)

==Historic sites==
[[File:Jacob purdy historic house 080105.jpg|thumb|right|[[Jacob Purdy House]]]]
* [[Jacob Purdy House]]<ref name="purdy">{{Cite web |title=Jacob Purdy House web site |url=http://www.whiteplainshistory.org/JacobPurdyHouse.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404133549/http://www.whiteplainshistory.org/JacobPurdyHouse.html |archive-date=April 4, 2014 |access-date=April 4, 2011 |publisher=Whiteplainshistory.org}}</ref> (1721), used as General George Washington's headquarters in 1778 and possibly in 1776 during the [[Battle of White Plains]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]]. In the 1960s it was repaired and restored, and in 1973 the structure was moved to its present location.<ref name="purdy move">James Feron, ''New York Times'': [https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/10/archives/a-strategic-retreat-for-headquarters-of-washington-once-a-slum.html?sq=A+Strategic+Retreat+for+Headquarters+of+Washington%253B+Once+a+Slum+Dwelling&scp=1&st=p A Strategic Retreat for Headquarters of Washington] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722213856/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/10/archives/a-strategic-retreat-for-headquarters-of-washington-once-a-slum.html?sq=A+Strategic+Retreat+for+Headquarters+of+Washington%253B+Once+a+Slum+Dwelling&scp=1&st=p |date=July 22, 2018 }}, August 10, 1973</ref> A further renovation was conducted around 1980, involving both professional craftsmen and local teenagers in an apprentice program.<ref>Tessa Melvin, ''New York Times'': [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60C11F9395410728DDDAB0A94DE405B8084F1D3&scp=1&sq=A+Washington+Memorial+Renovated%2C&st=p A Washington Memorial Renovated] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106005119/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60C11F9395410728DDDAB0A94DE405B8084F1D3&scp=1&sq=A+Washington+Memorial+Renovated%2C&st=p |date=January 6, 2014 }}, June 22, 1980</ref>
* [[Elijah Miller House]]<ref>[[Elijah Miller House]]</ref> (1738), is a historic home in North White Plains, town of North Castle, Westchester County, New York. The house is an 18th-century Rhode Island-style farmhouse that was occupied by General George Washington on three occasions, most notably as a headquarters command post during the Battle of White Plains. In 2010 the county legislature passed a $1.2 million bond issue to finance its [[building restoration|restoration]]. [[County executive]] [[Robert Astorino]], who had supported [[historic preservation|preserving]] the building five years earlier as a member of the legislature, vetoed the measure, saying it should be supported by private funds.<ref name="2010 Astorino veto">{{Cite news |last=Applebome |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Applebome |date=July 4, 2010 |title=A House With a Role in the Revolution Is Now Left Unprotected |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/nyregion/05towns.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617154514/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/nyregion/05towns.html |archive-date=June 17, 2011 |access-date=July 5, 2010 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
* [[White Plains Armory]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=www.whiteplainshistory.org |url=http://www.whiteplainshistory.org/Armory.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517120530/http://www.whiteplainshistory.org/Armory.html |archive-date=May 17, 2014 |access-date=April 4, 2011 |publisher=whiteplainshistory.org}}</ref> (1910), erected on the site of the first Westchester County Courthouse. A monument in front of the building commemorates the first public reading in New York of the Declaration of Independence, on July 11, 1776.
* [[White Plains Rural Cemetery]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=www.whiteplainshistory.org |url=http://www.whiteplainshistory.org/Cemetery.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517121654/http://www.whiteplainshistory.org/Cemetery.html |archive-date=May 17, 2014 |access-date=April 4, 2011 |publisher=whiteplainshistory.org}}</ref> incorporated 1854, although in use as a cemetery from 1797. The cemetery office occupies the structure that was the first Methodist Church in White Plains (1795, rebuilt in 1797 after a fire on the day of its original dedication).
* [[Percy Grainger Home and Studio]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=www.whiteplainshistory.org |url=http://www.whiteplainshistory.org/PercyGrainger.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517120859/http://www.whiteplainshistory.org/PercyGrainger.html |archive-date=May 17, 2014 |access-date=April 4, 2011 |publisher=whiteplainshistory.org}}</ref> occupied by the composer from 1921 until his death in 1961, and by his widow, Ella Ström-Brandelius, until her death in 1979. It is now maintained as a museum by the International Percy Grainger Society.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 10, 2011 |title=International Percy Grainger Society |url=http://www.percygrainger.org/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615055853/http://www.percygrainger.org/ |archive-date=June 15, 2022 |access-date=April 4, 2011 |publisher=PercyGrainger.org}}</ref>
* In addition to the above, the [[Bar Building]], [[Good Counsel Complex]], [[Leo Friedlander Studio]], [[Mapleton (White Plains, New York)|Mapleton]], [[Peoples National Bank and Trust Company Building]], [[Presbyterian Rest for Convalescents]],<ref name="nps">{{Cite web |date=May 6, 2011 |title=National Register of Historic Places Listings |url=http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/listings/20110506.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228130726/http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/listings/20110506.htm |archive-date=December 28, 2013 |access-date=August 5, 2012 |website=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 4/25/11 through 4/29/11 |publisher=National Park Service}}</ref> [[Soundview Manor]], and [[Woman's Club of White Plains]] are also listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a }}</ref>