On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson moved into the home of bricklayer Jacob Graff and his wife Maria. Jefferson would prepare drafts of the Declaration of Independence and Virginia Constitution in this house. He would lodge in a room here until September 3, 1776 when he left the Continental Congress to return to Virginia. Although the house was torn down in the 19th Century it was reconstructed in 1975 and it is now a National Park Service site. You can visit the house today although the interior is not open to the public.

Sources: https://www.nps.gov/inde/planyourvisit/declarationhouse.htm; https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/603989