Callahan House

The Callahan House, also known as the Jacob Helm House, is a historic home located in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area south of Milford, It was built in two sections, with the older dated to about 1800 and the later to about 1820. It is a long, 1 1/2-story, clapboard-clad frame dwelling with a steep gable roof. It features exposed chimney backs at the first floor exterior in the Dutch style, and a porch along the newer wing.

Callahan House is a residential wood frame one-and-one-half-story house 6hw6 was built in two sections, the older dates to about 1800 and the later to about 1820. The structure is an example of residential vernacular architecture erected during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the Upper Delaware Valley.

Callahan House served as an inn and as a tavern, and is believed to have been a station on the Underground Railroad. It is.is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

It’s located on the West side of U.S. Rte. 209, just south of Sawkill Creek and Bushkill. The Callahan House is just a few minutes south of Milford.