Captain Moses Estey, a veteran of the American Revolution, moved to Morristown in 1783 and, as a successful merchant and manufacturer, bought a home on a knoll overlooking the Whippany River at the corner of Water and Spring Streets. After that house was destroyed by fire in 1786, he replaced it with a grand Georgian style house that remained on the site until it was moved to Historic Speedwell in 1969. A fine example of 18th century American architecture, the Moses Estey House rivaled the Ford Mansion, George Washington’s Morristown headquarters during the winter of 1779-1780, in size and styling. The two-and-a-half story building has eight large rooms, each with its own fireplace, and massive chimney bases at each end rise to the attic, where they join to form a single chimney stack. A front porch addition was later removed to reveal the original doorway with decorative molding and sidelight windows. In the 1960s, a Morristown redevelopment project proposed Headquarters Plaza on the block between Speedwell Avenue and Spring Street, with Water Street to be realigned and part of the town’s oldest section, including a pond, mill site, and many historic buildings, slated for demolition. The town donated the Estey House, which had stood at Spring and Water Streets from 1786 to 1969, to Historic Speedwell, and federal funding helped move it one mile to a new foundation there. The L’Hommedieu House, now nearby, also originally stood on Spring Street across from the Estey House.