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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:32:18 -0800
- Reply-To: Frieda Davison <FDAVISON@SFSUVAX1.BITNET>
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- From: Frieda Davison <FDAVISON@SFSUVAX1.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: WYCKOFF House in Brooklyn, NY
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- > In article <2B646417@ssd0.laafb.af.mil> KitchenRN@SSD0.LAAFB.AF.MIL writes:
- > >Does anybody know anything about the WYCKOFF house in Brooklyn, New York? It
- > >is said to be the oldest building still standing in New York City, and was
- > >made a city monument or park. This was the family homestead of my WYCKOFFs
- > >from the middle 1600s.
- >
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- A recent architectural guide for NYC gives the following information:
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- In Southeastern Brooklyn in the town of Flatlands/Niew Amersfoort:
- Pieter Claesson Wyckoff House, 5902 Clarendon Rd. at intersection of
- Ralph and Ditmas Aves, SW corner. circa 1641. Restoration architects of
- Oppenheimer, Brady and Vogelstein. Hard to find in this confused stretch
- street intersections. Does NOT provide any other historical information.
-
- In Southern Brooklyn in Sheepshead Bay:
- Wyckoff-Bennett House, 1669 E. 22nd St., SE corner on Kings
- Highway. circa 1766. A "rural idyll": the most impressive of all early
- Brooklyn houses. Dated by a number cut into one of the wooden beams.
- Used as quarters by the Hessians during the Rev. War. Has a six-columned
- porch. No other historical information given
-
- There is also a Wyckoff Street between Third and Fourth Avenues in
- Brooklyn. The guides says "If this street weren't so poor it would be
- famous. Working-class, three-story English basement tenement buildings
- march up the incline toward Park Slope like a provincial brigade: in step,
- regimental insignia visible, well-groomed if a bit dusty".
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- Frieda Davison
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