- Constructed
- c. 1766
- Historic town
- Gravesend
- Modern neighborhood
- Madison
- Modern address
- 1669 East 22nd Street (corner of Kings Highway)
- Site also includes a barn and yard that’s a remnant of the original 100-acre farm plot.
- Privately owned and occupied.
- Current owners are only the third family to own the house!
- Two Hessian mercenaries quartered at the house during the Revolutionary War (Captain Toepfer of the Ditfourth regiment and Lieut. M. Bach of the Hessen-Hanau Artillerie) scratched their names and units into windowpanes (the graffiti sections now removed and displayed inside).
- Around 1900, the originally south-facing house was jacked up and turned to the west to fit the new street grid, wiping out the original barns and slave quarters.
For more information, see The New York Times.
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Go to other locations:
- The Wyckoff House Museum
- Hendrick I. Lott House
- Elias Hubbard Ryder House
- Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead
- Vanderveer-Cortelyou House