Taylor continued living here for the next several years, and for a time, leased half of the property for farming. In 1776, two years after moving back to Durham, he sold the estate. Two centuries later, on July 17, 1971, the George Taylor House was designated as a National Historical Landmark. One of his political theories challenged the leading French revisionist Francois Furet. Taylor believed ideology was the determinant of political behavior - not economic class. He believed 1789 was a political revolution with social consequences.