The Wyckoff House is the oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in New York City, estimated to have been built in 1652. It was owned by Pieter Claesen Wyckoff and his wife Grietje van Nes, who settled in what is now East Flatbush-Flatlands, Brooklyn. Generations of the Wyckoff family enlarged and altered the house and farmed the land until 1901. The house is now a museum owned by New York City and was the first landmark designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1965. It hosts cultural events and educational programs about the history of Brooklyn.

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2. The Wyckoff House Oldest Building
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TheWyckoff House or Pieter ClaesenWyckoff
House is estimated to have been built in 1652. It is
the oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox
frame house in NewYork and when it was
constructed, as Paley sums it up, "NewYork was
NewAmsterdam." Now NewYork City owns the
place and operates it as a museum.

3. The House
Pieter ClaesenWyckoff and his wife
Grietje van Nes, settled in the village
of NieuwAmersfoort, modern East
Flatbush-Flatlands, Brooklyn where
Wyckoff became a successful farmer
and magistrate.TheWyckoff
Farmhouse typifies the vernacular
farmhouse architecture of the
Dutch-American farms of Brooklyn
and Queens. Generations of
Wyckoffs enlarged and altered the
house and continued to farm the
land until 1901.
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4. The Museum
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• This house a museum also played an
important role in New York City's own
architectural preservation history. It was the
first landmark designated by the New York
City Landmarks Preservation Commission
in 1965, when the Commission was
formed. In 1967 it was designated a
National Historic Landmark.
• Cultural events like summer concerts and
an October Halloween Harvest festival are
held here. There are lectures, weekend
craft sessions, children’s story hours, and
outdoor programs held on a large lawn.

5. Programs
Programs explore the diverse
peoples of Brooklyn.
They are all the social configurations
of Brooklyn from a rural Dutch
colonial farming settlement to a
retreat for wealthy nineteenth century
industrialists, to a haven for Jewish,
Italian, and other immigrants in
search of the American dream, to
today’s urbanized hodgepodge of
yentas, yuppies, Caribbean
islanders, African-Americans and
Eastern European immigrants.

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