The Guyon-Lake-Tysen house, built about 1740 for a French Huguenot, is a fine example of a Dutch Colonial-style farmhouse with gambrel roof and spring eaves. It is part of the Richmondtown Restoration effort to restore and celebrate the local heritage of Staten Island.
This one-and-a-half-story structure with a stone basement dates from the early eighteenth century. A Dutch Colonial country residence with Greek Revival alterations, it was built on a parcel of Governor Dongan’s grant of 1677. During the 1840s, it became the home of Judge Ogden Edwards, the first New York supreme court justice from Staten Island. […]
Designated: November 9, 1971 The Alice Austen House was the longtime residence of Elizabeth Alice Austen and her partner Gertrude Tate. Austen, a pioneer of American photography lived here for over seventy years. Built between 1691 and 1710, the house originated as a one-room dwelling erected parallel to the shoreline of the Verrazano Narrows. A […]
Designated March 26, 1985 Begun in 1902 on the site of the former Richmond County Poor Farm, the New York City Farm Colony centered on the idea of sheltering and feeding the able-bodied poor in exchange for labor. Its gambrel-roofed, fieldstone buildings evoke the Dutch Colonial Revival style. The Seaview Hospital complex, built between 1913 […]
Designated March 21, 1995 This house is one of the few stone construction houses of the eighteenth-century with a gambrel roof. The one-and-a-half story house was nearly demolished in 1974, and suffered a major fire in 1975 which destroyed most of its wooden elements. Despite the numerous alterations over the last two hundred years, the […]
Designated April 19, 1966 This house is an outstanding example of the Eighteenth Century Dutch Colonial style of architecture, and it is one of the few colonial Dutch Colonial houses remaining in New York City. Some of the most distinguishable features of the inside are the Georgian mantelpieces in the living room, and the fully […]
Designated: March 15, 1966 The oldest building in New York City still used as a private residence, this Dutch Colonial Farmhouse was built circa 1729 by Abraham Lent, grandson of Abraham Riker, using local stone and roughhewn timber. The locally prominent Riker family was the namesake of nearby Rikers Island. The property contains a small […]
Designated October 14, 1965 This is Flushing’s only remaining 18th Century dwelling, and its second oldest house. The Kingsland Homestead is a wooden two-story building with a basement and an attic, and represents the country’s Dutch Colonial Style of architecture, and the typical house of Revolutionary War period.
Designated January 17, 1968 This one and one half story frame dwelling is a handsome example of one of the few remaining Eighteenth Century Dutch Colonial farmhouses still standing in Brooklyn. It is modest in size and in an excellent state of preservation; two hundred years of wear have done little to diminish the simple […]
Designated February 11, 1969 This unpretentious frame house is an excellent example of a Dutch Colonial farmhouse of the early 1800’s with some Twentieth Century modifications. This rectangular two and one-half story sturdy, shingle-covered dwelling has great architectural character. Johannes Van Nuyse (1736-1826) erected this Van Nuyse homestead at the west end of his father’s […]
