1935 The house was leased to Dr. Charles Andrews, a retired Yale history professor, and his wife, Evangeline, who brought along their maid and chauffeur. The Andrews returned through the winter of 1941, after which World War II curtailed travel. During their occupancy, they renovated and refurbished the house and added the wing at the back for their servants. One of Dr. Andrews' former students, the author Louis Capron, brought him a copy of Jonathan Dickinson's Journal. Fascinated because they were on the site where Dickinson was held captive, Dr. Andrews prepared an edition of the Journal. He died in 1943, and the work was published posthumously by his wife and the Yale University Press in 1945.
1937 To accommodate the Andrews, John DuBois built a fireplace upstairs and another downstairs from blocks of coquina (a shelly limestone) that he found on the beach where the Jupiter Beach Resort now stands.
1942 World War II killed tourism and Bessie DuBois closed her restaurant.
1950 Susan DuBois sold the house to Mr. and Mrs. Leo Vickers of Ocean City , New Jersey , who had previously rented it.
1960's Vandals spray-painted the interior walls, which had never been painted. To conceal the graffiti, pending restoration, the walls have been painted white.
1971 The house was purchased from Mrs. Vickers by Palm Beach County and is currently overseen by the Department of Parks and Recreation.
1977 The DuBois Pioneer Home Museum was opened.
1985 The House along with the Jupiter Inlet Historic and Archaeological Site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, November 5
HARRY DUBOIS (1871-1924)
Harry was born February 10, 1871 , on a farm in Holmdel, Monmouth County , New Jersey . His father, John Rue DuBois (1844-1914), and mother, Anna Spader DuBois (1848-1928), had an apple orchard and grew vegetables. The DuBois family traces its history back to DuBois, whose estates were confiscated by Louis XIV because the count was a Huguenot (Protestant). The family fled to Holland.
Louis DuBois, son of Count Chrétien, was born in the village of Wicres near Lille , in northwestern France , close to the Belgian border. In 1661, Louis emigrated to America , sailing from Mannheim , Germany , and settled first in Hurley, near Kingston , then in New Paltz, and again in Kingston --all in Ulster County , New York . Most of the people already in the region had emigrated from the Netherlands and spoke Dutch--and so the newcomers began to speak Dutch. Eventually their French-Huguenot church merged with the Dutch Reformed Church and all services were conducted in Dutch. This linguistic intermixing was responsible for the shift in pronunciation of the family's name from the French [Du Bwa] to the Dutch [Du Boys]. The DuBois family's motto TIENS TA FOY (Old French for "Hold fast the faith") was retained. [The motto and DuBois coat of arms are shown on the Genealogical Quilt.] Louis' grandson, also named Louis, moved to New Jersey and was the ancestor of Harry's branch of the family
