According the Bronx County Historical Society, Poe Cottage is the borough's third oldest building. Private owned house dated back from 1790 or 1870 based on different sources. The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, at 5816 Clarendon Road, Brooklyn, is the city's oldest surviving stucture. Honorable mention: The Queens County Farm Museum in Floral Park dates back to 1697 and is the city's oldest working farm. The house remained in the Riker and Lent (descendants of the Rikers) family for several generations and has been expanded and renovated numerous times. Although there are no records of when exactly the Britton Cottage was first built, the land that the house originally rested on was officially granted to Obadiah Holmes in 1677. Listed in, This page was last edited on 5 August 2020, at 18:32. Built by an early European settler of the area in 1706, just one wall of … Listed on National Register of Historic Places. This reconstruction, using some original material, dates to 1933. Built in 1764, St. Paul’s Chapel is the oldest surviving building in … Second oldest courthouse in the United States that remains in use, This Protestant church, perhaps the oldest in western. Over time, the Rikers (whose nearby island holds the infamous prison) eventually came to be known as the Lents, after their hometown in the Netherlands. The house was then acquired by the Perine Family in 1758, who passed the house down until 1913. Billiou’s descendants, the Stillwells and the Brittons lived in the house until the mid-18th century. That year, Pieter Claesen Wyckoff—a former indentured servant from Rensselaerswyck, near Albany—and his wife Grietje moved to Brooklyn and likely built this one-room farmhouse where they raised their 11 children. The Old Quaker Meeting House is one of the only buildings on this list still being used for its original purpose. The Hulls moved into the property c1800 but built the house in 1820. The house was built around 1675 by Jans Martense Schenck, a Dutch immigrant who arrived in New Netherland in 1650, in the town of Flatlands. The original structure was built about 1720 and expanded in the 1780s. Eventually expanding the farm to 200 acres, the Lott family continued to work the land well into the 20th century and the last Lott to own the home died there in 1989. Neglected for years, the house was purchased by by Alice Dyckman Dean and Fannie Fredericka Dyckman Welch, who had the home sympathetically restored as closely as possible to its 1784 appearance and opened for visitation. (Note that the museum can only be visited on a guided tour, and that tours are offered between 1 and 4 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays only.). Called Hoogebergh, meaning "high hill", the house has remained the family homestead since it was erected by Joachim Staats in 1696.