CasaCara, which covers real estate, architecture, historic preservation and interior design from Brooklyn to Philly, the Hudson Vallley and the North Fork of Long Island took a trip out to the Flatlands neighborhood, once one of several villages that made up the original Dutch settlement of Breukelen.
Did you know there are over a dozen houses in Brooklyn still extant from the 17th/18th century Dutch colonial period?
Some are well-known and open to the public, like the 1699 Old Stone
House at Fifth Avenue and Third Street in Park Slope, but that’s a
reconstruction. Then there’s the 1652 Pieter Claesen Wyckoff house, New York City’s oldest, in Canarsie, and the Lefferts farmstead in Prospect Park, not in its original location
Some are well-known and open to the public, like the 1699 Old Stone
House at Fifth Avenue and Third Street in Park Slope, but that’s a
reconstruction. Then there’s the 1652 Pieter Claesen Wyckoff house, New York City’s oldest, in Canarsie, and the Lefferts farmstead in Prospect Park, not in its original location
the dutch style houses sound brilliant. it’s interesting how many periods of architecture can be found in a city.
There’s what appears to be an old Dutch-style house stuck in between the back yards of two Victorian houses along the trench of the Brighton Line. I wish I could remember between which two stations, I think it may be between Wellington & Waldorf Courts, right up against the fence on the west side of the track. Does anyone know anything about it?