List of the oldest buildings in New York

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Template:Use mdy dates This article attempts to list the oldest buildings in the state of New York, including the oldest houses and any other surviving structures. Some dates are approximate and based on architectural studies and historical records; other dates are based on dendrochronology. All entries should include citation with reference to: architectural features indicative of the date of construction; a report by an architectural historian; or dendrochronology.

Sites on the list are generally from the First Period of American architecture. If the exact year of initial construction is estimated, it will be shown as a range of dates. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

List

Building Image Location First Built Notes
Wyckoff House File:Wyckoff-house.jpg East Flatbush, Brooklyn 1652 Oldest surviving structure in New York, oldest in Brooklyn, oldest on Long Island.
Zachariah Hawkins House File:Zachariah Hawkins Homestead-2.JPG Stony Brook 1660 c.
Klinkenberg(h) Bouwerij File:20220716 182646 01 final.tif Coxsackie 1663 c. One of oldest surviving Dutch homes north of greater New York City area. On the western shore of Hudson River. Klinkenberg(h) was translated by Pelletrau in Beer's History of Greene County from Old Dutch as "Echo Hill". On August 25, 1670, Jurian Teunisse Tappen sold his one third of the Rensselaerswyck patroonship to Abraham Staats and Johannes Provoost. The deed in the 1670 sale to Staats and Provoost, later known as The Loonenburg patent, mentions a barn, indicating a preceding settlement.

Notable owners: On September 6, 1694 reports the sale of Klinkenberg was sold to Jacob Casperson Hallenbeck; it became “the original seat of the family of Hallenbecks” for several generations. During the Revolutionary War, Klinkenberg was inhabited by the Provoost family, who were “noted tories.” In Klinkenberg was referenced as “George Houghtaling's house ref: Pelletreau’s chapter “Coxsackie” in "Beers History of Greene County", p 4, 1884. Since 1962, property of family of Harold Oaklander and Isabelle Rapin.

Bronck House File:Bronck-house.jpg Coxsackie 1663
Billiou–Stillwell–Perine House File:Perine-house.JPG Dongan Hills, Staten Island 1665 Oldest surviving structure in Staten Island
Brewster House File:Brewster House, Setauket.jpg East Setauket 1665
Robert Coles Homestead Glen Cove, Long Island 1668 In May of 1668, Joseph Carpenter of Rhode Island negotiated with the Matinecock Indians to purchase several hundred acres of land on which to build a saw mill and grist mill in what was then Musketa Cove. Robert Coles was one of the "Five Proprietors of the Musketa Cove Patent" and was the first to build his homestead at what is now 34 The Place. He and his wife, Mercy Wright of Oyster Bay, had 9 children and lived in the eastern-most wing of the existing property which still stands today.[1]
Bowne House File:John Bowne House (WTM by official-ly cool 078).jpg Flushing, Queens 1669[2] Oldest surviving structure in Queens; once hosted a well-known Quaker meeting
Cubberly-Britton Cottage File:Brittoncottage.jpg Richmondtown, Staten Island 1670
Abraham Manee House File:Maneeseguine5.jpg Prince's Bay, Staten Island 1670
Jans Martense Schenck house File:Schenk-Crooke House2.jpg Brooklyn 1675 Originally in Flatlands; installed within the Brooklyn Museum 1964
Old Senate House File:Kingston-senate-house.jpg City of Kingston 1676 New York State Constitution written and signed here
Conference House File:Conference-house-staten-island.jpg Tottenville, Staten Island 1680 Listed as a National Historic Landmark
Timothy Knapp House File:Knapp House Rye NY DSCN2033.jpg Rye 1680 Listed on National Register of Historic Places
Van Nostrand-Starkins House File:Van Nostrand-Starkins House from Main Street and East Broadway.JPG Roslyn 1680[3] Main Street Historic District (Roslyn, New York)
Chichester's Inn File:Chichester's Inn.jpg West Hills 1680 [4] Listed on National Register of Historic Places. Also known as the 'Peace and Plenty Inn'.
Bevier House Museum File:Louis Bevier House, State Route 213 Vicinity, Marbletown (Ulster County, New York).jpg Marbletown 1680 [5] Currently houses the Ulster County Historical Society
Philipse Manor Hall File:Philipse Manor Hall.jpg Yonkers 1682 Oldest surviving structure in Westchester County.
Old Halsey House File:OldHalseyHouseSouthhampton.jpg Village of Southampton 1688 1688 According to dendrochronology survey by Oxford, 1683 build date according to the local historical society in Southampton http://www.southamptonhistoricalmuseum.org/
Bedell Family Farm House File:Bedell Family Farm House; Broader Shot.jpg Bellmore 1689 Farmhouse built by early settler Robert Bedell for his son John and his wife Sarah Southard. Originally located on Merrick Boulevard.
Alice Austen House File:Alice Austen House.jpg Rosebank, Staten Island 1690 Built by a Dutch merchant then remodeled in the Gothic Revival Style in 1844
Jeremiah Conklin House File:Jerimiah Conklin home 20240804 130226.jpg Amagansett 1690 Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Built by Jeremiah Conkling and his wife Mary, daughter of Lion Gardiner, first English settler of New York colony Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Joseph Whitman House West Hills, Long Island 1692
Old Quaker Meeting House File:Old-quaker-house-flushing.jpg Flushing, Queens 1694 Oldest religious building in New York City still standing [6]
Joachim Staats House[7] Staats Island, Rensselaer County 1696[8] Called Hoogebergh, meaning "high hill", the house has remained the family homestead since it was erected by Joachim Staats in 1696.[8] William Staats, a 9th generation Hoogebergh inhabitant, details the history of the house and chronicles the family anecdotes of the 20th century in his book, Three Centuries on the Hudson River.[9]
Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow File:Old Dutch Church taken by James Russiello.JPG Sleepy Hollow 1697 Possibly the oldest surviving church in the state. May date to 1685.
Old House File:The-old-house-cutchogue.jpg Cutchogue 1699[10] Dated by dendrochronology[10]
De Wint House File:DeWintHouse house 2007 02.jpg Tappan 1700 Washington Revolutionary headquarters; one of the oldest surviving buildings in Rockland County
Ezra Carll Homestead File:Carll Homestead, Melville Boulevard, Huntington, Suffolk County, NY HABS NY,52-HUNTS,1-2.tif South Huntington, Long Island 1700
Jarvis-Fleet House File:Jarvis Fleet House, Cove Road, Huntington N.Y. 7 2010 095.jpg Huntington, Long Island 1700
Lispenard–Rodman–Davenport House File:Lispenard-Rodman-Davenport House, 180 Davenport Ave. New Rochelle, (Main building).JPG New Rochelle 1700
Tobias van Steenburgh House File:Tobias van Steenburgh House, Kingston, NY.jpg Kingston 1700 c. One of the few buildings in Kingston not burned in 1777 by British troops (though most of the burned stone houses were repaired and remain).
Treasure House File:Treasurehouse.jpg Richmondtown, Staten Island 1700
Tysen-Neville House File:Neville House 806 Richmond Terrace Staten Island, NY.jpg New Brighton, Staten Island 1700
John Wood House Huntington Station, Long Island 1704 Built by a Dutch merchant then remodeled in the Gothic Revival Style in 1844
Mabee House File:Mabee House Jan 09.jpg Rotterdam 1705 The oldest house in the Mohawk Valley
Jan Van Loon House File:JanVanLoonHouse.JPG Village of Athens 1706 One of the oldest houses in Greene County[11]
Crailo File:Crailo2010.jpg Rensselaer 1707 Residence of Hendrick van Rensselaer
Madam Brett Homestead File:Madam brett homestead beacon 2006.jpg Beacon 1709 Oldest building in Dutchess County, first house on Rombout Patent, on National Register
Gomez Mill House File:Gomez Mill House.jpg Town of Newburgh 1712 Oldest known extant residence of a Jewish American
Lewis Pintard House File:First Presbyterian Church and Lewis Pintard House, Pintard Ave., New Rochelle..JPG New Rochelle 1710 Home of Revolutionary War patriot Lewis Pintard
Fraunces Tavern File:Day113iwalltourdk.jpg Lower Manhattan 1719 Etienne "Stephen" DeLancey built the current building as his house; tavern since 1762
Brinckerhoff House File:KW-Main-photo-DMC 6284 1-a455acef-2.jpg Fishkill 1717 Originally two-room stone cottage used as a trading post and later rebuilt as a mansion & now converted to an Inn.
Pieter Winne House Selkirk, Albany County 1720 Purportedly the oldest house in the Town of Bethlehem Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Ariaanje Coeymans House File:Coeymanshouse.jpg Coeymans 1720 There is another Coeymans house a mile south of this one, on the Hannacroix Creek. Date unknown.
Hendrick I. Lott House File:Hendrick I Lott 1940 E36 jeh.JPG Marine Park, Brooklyn 1720
Jan Van Hoesen House File:VanHoesenHouse 1.jpg Claverack c. 1720
John Oakley House West Hills, Long Island c. 1720 The original structure was built about 1720 and expanded in the 1780s.
Bull Stone House File:Bull Stone House.jpg Hamptonburgh 1720s Property also contains the oldest intact Dutch barn in the state
Thomas Dodge Homestead File:Thomas Dodge Homestead at night.JPG Port Washington, Long Island 1721 The original farmhouse was built in 1721 with additions completed in 1750 and 1903
Kreuzer-Pelton House File:Kreuzer-pelton.jpg West New Brighton, Staten Island 1722
Albertus Van Loon House File:AVanLoonHouse.JPG Village of Athens 1724 Possibly the second-oldest house in Greene County
Heermance Farmhouse Red Hook (town), New York 1725 Oldest house in the Town of Red Hook. Retains much original detail in the interior. Original woodwork including panelling, tiger maple bannister and granary door.
Abraham Yates House Schenectady c. 1725 Possibly the oldest house in Schenectady
French Castle at Fort Niagara File:French castle at Fort Niagara 2.JPG Porter 1726 Oldest building on the Great Lakes, oldest building in Western New York.
48 Hudson Avenue File:48 Hudson Ave Albany.jpg Albany 1728 Oldest stand-alone structure in Albany
Lent Homestead File:Lent Homestead 01.JPG East Elmhurst, Queens 1729 The western portion of the house may date to 1654
Benner House File:Benner House, Rhinebeck, NY.jpg Village of Rhinebeck 1730 Oldest house in the village; a rare example of German vernacular architecture, and the sole remaining house in Dutchess County with a one-room floorplan built to German traditions rather than Dutch. Here was held the first Methodist church services in the town conducted by the Rev. Freeborn Garrettson from 1791–1793.
King Mansion File:Rufus-king-house.jpg Jamaica, Queens 1730 The rear section of the house dates to 1730, the left section to 1755, the main structure (right section) to 1806.
Suydam House File:Suydam Homestead; Centerport, NY; IN COLOR!.jpg Centerport, Long Island c. 1730
John Rogers House File:John Rogers House; Half Hollow Hills, New York.jpg Dix Hills, Long Island 1732
Queen Anne Parsonage Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Fort Hunter 1734
Cornelius Van Wyck House File:Cornelius Van Wyck House.JPG Douglaston, Queens 1735
Nicoll-Sill House – Bethlehem House Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Selkirk, Albany County c. 1735 Home of Rensselaer Nicoll and Elizabeth Salisbury Nicoll
St. James Church File:Old St James CoE Elmhurst jeh.jpg Elmhurst, Queens 1736
Jacob Smith House File:Jacob Smith House; West Hills, NY.jpg West Hills, Long Island c. 1740 The home consists of a three-bay, <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1+1⁄2-story saltbox built about 1740 and a five-bay, <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1+1⁄2-story dwelling with a shed roof wing added about 1830.
Lake-Tysen House File:Guyon-Lake-Tyson.jpg Oakwood, Staten Island 1740
Kasparus Westervelt House [12] Town of Poughkeepsie 1745
Stoothoff–Baxter–Kouwenhaven House File:J A Baxter 1640 E48 jeh.JPG Flatlands, Brooklyn 1747
Van Cortlandt House File:Van-cortland-house-bronx.JPG Van Cortlandt Park 1748 Oldest building in the Bronx
Creedmoor (Cornell) Farmhouse File:QFM farmhouse jeh.jpg Glen Oaks, Queens 1750
David Conklin House File:David Conklin House and Barn.JPG Huntington, Long Island c. 1750
Ireland-Gardiner Farm Greenlawn, Long Island c. 1750
Isaac Losee House File:Isaac Losee House.JPG Huntington, Long Island c. 1750 One of the oldest private residences on Long Island
Henry Smith Farmstead File:Henry Smith (now John Gardiner) Farmstead.jpg Huntington Station, Long Island 1750 Built about 1750 and remodelled in the 1860s
Steenburgh Tavern Rhinebeck 1750 German vernacular stone house built into a hillside with an unusual sweeping Dutch roof
William Arthur House File:William Arthur House (1752); Smithtown, NY.jpg Smithtown 1752 NY-25A and Redwood Lane [1] Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
Stone Jug File:Stone Jug, Clermont, NY.jpg Clermont 1752 Contributing property to the Hudson River Historic District
The Old 76 House File:Old76House 2007 02.jpg Tappan 1754 Oldest surviving building in Rockland County; third oldest public house in America; Maj. John Andre held before trial and hanging in Tappan
Christopher House File:Chishouse.jpg Richmondtown, Staten Island 1756
Valentine–Varian House File:Valentine-varian-house.JPG Norwood, Bronx 1758 Second oldest house in the Bronx
Palatine German Wohleben House Frankfort, New York 1760
Bryant Skidmore House Northport 1761 Located near Great Cow Harbor and Red Hook.
Strawberry Hill File:Strawberryhillrhinebeck.jpg Rhinebeck 1762 The National Register of Historic Places called this the most monumental stone farmhouse in Northern Dutchess County. Built by Henry Beekman in 1762.
St. Paul's Chapel File:Historic American Buildings Survey, Arnold Moses, Photographer February 8, 1937, VIEW FROM THE SOUTH EAST. - St. Paul's Chapel, Broadway and Fulton Streets, New York, New York HABS NY,31-NEYO,2-3.tif Lower Manhattan 1764 Third oldest surviving church in New York City, after the Flushing Friends Meeting House (1694) and St. Andrew's Church, Staten Island (1709).
Morris–Jumel Mansion File:Morris-jumel.jpg Upper Manhattan 1765
Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead File:Wyckoff-bennett-homestead.jpg Flatlands, Brooklyn 1766
Beekman Arms and Delamater Inn File:Beekman Arms Oldest Inn Rhinebeck 2007 02.jpg Village of Rhinebeck 1766[13] Oldest surviving inn in America and oldest structure in the village.
Indian Castle Church File:IndianCastleChurch zoomed December2007.jpg Danube 1769 Only colonial Indian missionary church surviving in the state, and the only Iroquois building surviving from its time[14]
Old Burr Farm Comac 1769 Earliest Surviving House (C. 1769)

Associated With The Burr Family, One of Comac's Leading Families From the 18th Thru 20th Centuries.

Voorlezer's House File:Vorleezer-house.jpg Richmondtown, Staten Island 1769 c. Long held to be the oldest schoolhouse in America, although the original schoolhouse built on the property does not survive. Traditionally dated to 1695/6.
Boehm-Frost House File:Boehmhouseback.JPG Richmondtown, Staten Island 1770
Fulton County Courthouse File:Fulton County Courthouse Aug 05.jpg Johnstown 1772 Oldest courthouse in the United States that remains in use
Kingsland Homestead File:Kingsland Homestead west porch jeh.jpg Flushing, Queens 1774
Lefferts Homestead File:Lefferts-homestead-prospect-park.JPG Prospect Park, Brooklyn 1777 Moved to Prospect Park from its original location at 563 Flatbush Avenue
Baylis Homestead 116_Carnation] Floral Park, Nassau County 1779 Oldest House in Floral Park
Dyckman House File:Dyckman House 2007.jpg Inwood, Manhattan 1784 Only remaining original farmhouse in Manhattan
Edward Mooney House File:Edward-mooney-house-18-bowery.jpg Lower Manhattan 1785 Oldest surviving row house in Manhattan
Ellis Squires Jr. House File:Ellis Squires Junior House-1.jpg Hampton Bays 1785 Oldest surviving row house in Hampton Bays
Stone-Tolan House File:StoneTolanHouseBrightonNewYork.JPG Brighton c. 1792 A Federal-style structure said to be the oldest surviving building in Monroe County
Joost Van Nuyse House File:Van Nuyse House Brooklyn 1.JPG Flatlands, Brooklyn 1793
Bridge Cafe File:Bridge Cafe (WTM by official-ly cool 060).jpg Lower Manhattan 1795 Oldest wooden building in Manhattan
Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church File:RPDC Flatbush w-Graveyard jeh.JPG Flatbush 1796
Blackwell House File:Blackwell House RI jeh.jpg Roosevelt Island 1796 Script error: No such module "Coordinates".’
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum File:Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden (51923598385).jpg Upper East Side, Manhattan 1799 Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Gracie Mansion File:Gracie Mansion snow jeh.jpg Upper East Side, Manhattan 1799 Mayor's Residence
Van Nuyse-Magaw House File:Van Nuyse-Magaw House, 1041 East Twenty-second Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY HABS NY,24-BROK,36- (sheet 4 of 15).tif Midwood 1800 1041 East 22nd Street [2] Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
Hamilton Grange Hamilton Grange at St. Nicholas Park in October 2009 Hamilton Heights 1802 Home of Alexander Hamilton. Relocated twice (1889 and 2008).[15][16]
Wadsworth Homestead Geneseo 1804 Built in 1804 by James Wadsworth who came to Geneseo in 1790. Originally a two-story foursquare home. Enlarged in 1815[17]
Swart-Wilcox House File:Swart-Wilcox House R0023878.jpg Oneonta 1807 Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1807. Now operated as the Swart-Wilcox House Museum..
Gideon Tucker House File:Day Trip to New York City (2788465284).jpg Tribeca, Manhattan 1809 2 White Street. Small Federal style row house
Willets Point Farmhouse Bayside, now Fort Totten, Queens 1829 Built by Charles and Martha Willet and eventually moved to Fort Totten. The fort itself was built in 1857, and an Officer's Club was built in 1870 which is now home to the Bayside Historical Society.
Cantonment Farm 1812 This private residence is the last standing officers' barracks built in 1812.
Putnam County Court House File:PC Courthouse 800.jpg Carmel 1814 Second oldest courthouse in the United States that remains in use
Clarkson Community Church Clarkson 1825 This Protestant church, perhaps the oldest in western Monroe County, was established in 1816 and has operated continuously since that date. The original 1825 Colonial structure, with a 100' steeple, has had two subsequent additions (in 1967 and in 1985).
Dash homeScript error: No such module "Unsubst". Eden 1816 Has been consistently lived in since 1816. The property backs up to 18 mile creek & has a tributary with 5 waterfalls. There are 200 year old black walnut, apple & mulberry trees also on the property.
Hull Family Home and Farmstead Lancaster c. 1820 Lived in until 1990’S, but is now a preserved home and is able to be visited. The Hulls moved into the property c1800 but built the house in 1820. The house is the oldest stone house in Erie county.
LaTourette House File:LaTourette House, Staten Island, NY.jpg Staten Island 1836 1836 brick Federal-style building now used as clubhouse for city-owned golf course.[18]
Anshe Slonim Synagogue File:Angel Orensanz Center (2008).jpg Lower Manhattan 1849 Oldest surviving synagogue building in New York City
203 East 29th Street File:203 E 29th St.jpg Kips Bay, Manhattan 1790/1870 Private owned house dated back from 1790 or 1870 based on different sources. Listed in National Register of Historic Places

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