The oldest house of New York City - (is older than you think)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- New York City can trace back its roots to the free and liberal city of Amsterdam in the 17th century. The Wyckoff House is the only house in New York City that is from that period, when the Republic of the Netherlands ruled part of North America.
The house is one of the most tangible reminders of a period of American history that has largely been forgotten. New Amsterdam (1625-1664) was a colony in which people from all over the world used trade to make something better of themselves.
New Netherland Now is a project that wants to shine a light on this period of American history, which has only recently been uncovered in its true detail by historians. It shows an alternative origin story for the United States full of inspiring lessons and dire warnings.
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That's my family. Direct line. It's amazing that the house is still standing considering America tended to tear down old structures before developing historic districts or deeming a structure a historic treasure.
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@Jasy Jam I assume you are making an uneducated assumption that all persons with Dutch ancestry are descendants of slave owners and/or slave traders. How very discriminating of you, not to mention hypocritical. My ancestor(s) did not own slaves nor did they trade them. I never said I was “proud” of anything in my comment from 2 years ago, but I am quite proud of many of the accomplishments and strides my family has made over the past 383 years. If this offends you, I can honestly say that I am not in the least bit concerned. If my ancestor(s) had owned or traded slaves that would be very disappointing, but the past cannot be changed. We can only learn from it and try to do better. My ancestors were indentured servants and farmers. The past cannot be changed, nor does it define who we are as individuals today. It seems that you have some concerning issues that need to be addressed professionally if you feel the need to troll around on UA-cam making ignorant and uninformed accusations against people you are not acquainted with.
@Jasy Jam Oh my god, HAHAHAHA!
@Jasy Jam Every person on this planet has ancestors, lots of them. Probably lots of those have done some horrible stuff. Including yours and mine. Why would anyone be ashamed of that? The sins of your forefathers are not yours. Don't be a dick in this life and don't do what they did.
Jasy, you must be intellectually challenged. We're all decendants of murderers, cavemen, slave traders, rapists and warriors. That's the history of humanity.
There's nothing wrong with being proud of or interested in your family's history. Especially if your family is as illustrious as the Wyckoff's.
The oldest city in America (1565) is St. Augustine Florida, and it has amazing buildings, and restored architecture from that era.
Yes it's beautiful but not Dutch.
Original language of oldest city in United States. Spanish. On September 8, 1565, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés landed on the shore of what is now called Matanzas Bay and began the founding of the Presidio of San Agustin. Later the settlement would be called St. Augustine, Florida.
@@alejandroalvarez1544 Indeed!
What about the Pueblo Towns of new Mexico?
Ya if you dont count the city that pople build and got destroyed that was here before the new world take over ....oldest Europe settled city ...school misinform ppl
I visited the Wyckoff house a few years ago, my ancestral home. It was an odd feeling to touch the hand-hewn surface of a supporting beam cut and installed by my ancestor, hundreds of years ago. Since I am a Wyckoff, I was allowed to see some of the "off tour" bits of the house. I live over 3k miles away, so my feet will probably never touch the ground there again. But I'm glad NY and a lot of wonderful people have maintained my ancestral home so well and for so many years. Hopefully it has many hundreds of years of life remaining so that people can recall a time when Flatbush was more of a farm than a city.
I loved my trip to see it.
Great ! This Story IS Better than Many They Make movies of at Holywood ! Real Pioneer History !
I’m going to burn it
So cool for you!
@@jedimasterjoe5386 lol
I saw a cat in this video. That reminds me of a BBC radio program years ago, in which was mentioned that scientist have found out that the DNA of cats in New York have more similarities with the DNA of cats in Holland than with the DNA of cats in the rest of the U.S. Interesting to know. : )
Very interesting. Zeer interessant.
Bonkers stuff we remember!
I was an intern there in 2006. Worked in the "archive" up in the attic, transcribing the Wyckoff family letters.
How was IT ? Any Good ?
Now that would make a wonderful video
@@holoholopainen1627 Very interesting letters and documents.
@@Akibatai00 Nice ! Thanks ! Were Those Letters in Dutch language ?
@@holoholopainen1627 haha, I wish. No, they were written in English.
I passed by this house on my way to and from school twice a day, every day for many years and never knew what it was.
I went to Nazareth HS in Brooklyn "back in the day" .. Nothing much about the old farmhouse has changed.
Nobody told You ? Isnt UA-cam Great ?
1652 was also the year Jan van Riebeeck came to shore in South Africa and build a small fort that was replaced with the Kasteel die goeie Hoop , that is where We get our Language of Afrikaans from .
michael jamison hey michael, see you saw this video too
michael jamison Its insane that this house is about 9 generations ago meaning that this is 6 greats.
michael jamison
You are right, same with Nassau, all over the world.... Africa too!
English Empire became to dominant...
"Kaap de goede hoop" The Dutch traveled by ship to and from East and West Indië and did use that as an intermediate station for foraging (fresh food and water) back to or from Amsterdam The Netherlands.
I visited Fort of Good Hope and I was disappointed.
I think the US for many years didn't care or want anything old. I love that other countries keep using their old buildings, preserving them and incorporating them into their daily lives. Here in the US it was always newer "better" instead of classic and historical. I do not care for new buildings, they look cold and are way too big. We need to appreciate and cherish the past by caring for these beautiful buildings and try to preserve as many as possible.
Celita Guia Whittington so in the next 300-500 years would our present skyscrapers and buildings be considered historic and kept in good shape?
I guess it is all relative. To me, living now, these buildings are ugly and not worth saving but who knows how the future will see them. Good point.
America is too big. There is so much space for new buildings, that the old ones get forgotten.
it's the same in a lot of Canada. The city where I was born was founded in 1749 and in the past 50 years almost everything from that time was destroyed...and it's still happening.
I think this is why there is a push to have some towns declared world heritage sites so that the government and their friends the developers have to leave some areas alone. Destroying these buildings because of increasing real estate values only benefits a few.
America expanded at a very rapid pace, thanks in part to industrial technology that was not around in other parts of the world during growth period. That rapid pace coupled with a huge influx of immigrants did not allow for much preservation. I live near the Cahokia Mounds world heritage site which far predates European settlements. In the 1800's people just removed the giant mounds for the top soil and to make room for roads and towns.
“Cherish what you have, even if it’s just a few beams”. AGREED 💕
The oldest building in New Zealand is from the 1820s. Being obsessed with architectural history when you live in a country that had no permanent structures until the 19th century is a little infuriating actually.
I see many Europeans in the comments saying a 17th century house is nothing compared to their medieval structures that are still in use! Appreciate your castles yo!
Where excatly ? Did They Land at Coromandel / or Where ? Sorry My History IS Limited - that comes to Wellington era !
yeah, in use by muslims
This is where tact comes in place. I have a Brit friend and she thought the same way about the age of their buildings. I pointed out to her that the homes in New England were built the same way the homes were built in 1600's in England. These early settlers did not want to leave England but they were forced to as the Church of England kept killing ministers and burning them alive at the stake, that refused to follow the church dogma. I reminded her that the settlers in New England would name their towns after their towns in England unless Indian names were used. For example: Hartford, Guilford, Wallingford, Boston, Coventry, (New) London. They deeply loved their country, England. Aside from that, I remember the first time I went to England. The country side was exactly like New England. It made me feel as if I was coming home. I do not think that GOD would have put these naive settlers in, say, Wyoming with it's geysers and bubbling over hot pots. They would have thought they were in the opposite place of heaven.
Very interesting. I wish there was more history about the WIC. Recently I found out that my surname goes back to the 17th-century merchant trader and WIC director Samuel Blommaert. He was born in Antwerp (personally, I grew up in Zeeland; 40 min driving from Antwerp), moved to London with his dad (where I currently live), and he established various Atlantic sailing routes. Right after I came out of high school I wanna join the Dutch Marine Corps which has been established in the 17th century by Michiel de Ruyter from Vlissingen/Flushing. Instead, I followed a career in the shipping industry as that just "made more sense." I worked for a Dutch shipping company for a while. Nowadays the Dutch Marine Corps is based on the Antilles. Samuel lived on Bonaire as well. This is where I wanna go when I came out of high school. Relationship wise; I always felt I had a connection with someone who lived far away from my home country. At age 23 I travelled all the way to Peru to find that special love connection. A few years later she came into my life.
In 2014 while I was in London I struggled with personal challenges regarding deep feelings of shame and guilt right after a business of mine collapsed. Because of that, I went to see a spiritual healer for a past life regression. She actually saw an image of a merchant trader in the 17th century. Makes you wonder, eh...
I am Dutch and I am suprised there is a house preserved. Very cool! Groetjes!
The part: "this cat "meow" agrees" cracked me up, even the cat has an opinion. Great video.
That cat might still have a lot of Amsterdam cat genes, so, yeah, it might have an opinion...
In New York, EVERYBODY has an opinion about EVERYTHING.
Cats have "facts". Dogs have "opinions". Lol.
So lovely to watch. My husband is an Architect and we live in the Historic Seaport District in a landmark building dated 1812-1820. We have pre industrial wood beams and tilted floors we just ADORE! We love being a part of old NY. Thank you for sharing.
The way she gravitates toward and looks at that curator guy... 😍🥰
I have worked a lot in Old Québec - and dating structures there is a nightmare. I worked in one place that had 17th century, basket roofed, rock 'catacombs' on the lowest level...more round rock, low tech mortar (3 to 5 foot thick wall) rooms on the next level (guessing 18th century) and then brick work (19th century) for a couple levels, all extended by steel beams (yes, 20th century on top of 17th century foundation) high-rise above. You just can't put a date on the structure as a whole - you have to date each facet of it.
For the most part, attics and upper floors are the newest in old Québec, and foundations are the oldest.
Heather Spoonheim Quebec is incredible because it’s just about the only city north of Mexico to have a large amount of city buildings surviving from that period. Boston only has one urban house built before 1700, New York has none, Philadelphia, None.
Interesting part of NYC and American history, also a great little video, 👍
u mean.. USA History
Americans have a tendency to totally mispronounce non English names, I'm from Ireland and some of the way people from the US prenounce Irish surnames is way off the proper pronunciation. Mahoney and Shaughnessy being two of the worst.
I am a descendant of the Wyckoff family. Pieter Claesen Wyckoff is my 9th great-grandfather
thats cool but i am skeptical. there is always someone.... thats my house or my dad did that n so on :P :)
Could be. Do you have a family tree on ancestry.com? Get a DNA test done there and it will tell us.
I Think it is related to Wijk bij duurstede.
Before it had the name Dorestad.
I know some actual Wycoffs. Not the watered-down, "on-my-mother's-side" fractionals, mind you.
MrMrwilson11 😎cool
Yes, the Wyckhoff house. Near the Brooklyn Terminal Market, Avenue D, Ditmars , and Clarendon. Built 1652.
2:06 when he said we are being guided by Joshua I thought he meant the cat for a second😂
Lived in a village called GrandView on Hudson for 20 years until I sold my house (1894 Arts and Crafts bungalow). We had a couple of old Dutch houses on the road I lived on including the Onderdonk house in Piermont which was built in 1737.
Supposedly quite old for an american building. Hard to get my head round New York's oldest building being so young...
Yep. It's sad how our forebears forgot to preserve most of our past but more informed minds have started to realize that all is not lost. We can hope.
I live in Carson City, NV. The oldest house here (now a museum) was built in 1860.
the United States is only 240 years old, and Europeans have only been living on this continent for about 430 years
AkuExtraThicc it's the oldest democratic republic though. And a lot of countries in Europe are much younger than America. Germany and Italy for instance weren't unified nations until the later 1800s. Of course the cultures were older, but the countries were new.
Shi, the natives of what is now the eastern part of the U.S. did not build permanent buildings, so we should not expect any of them to still be here.
It is kind of funny to watch this when they talk about how old the building is as a swede, since most buildings in the "old town" of Stockholm is older than that house and still in use :-)
The oldest wooden building in Sweden still standing is built around year 1220:
sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granhults_kyrka
And the oldest stone buildings still standing are about 1000 years old now:
sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fors_kyrka,_Eskilstuna
+Erik Cederberg Yeah, but of course this house was made out of wood and pretty simple in it's layout of course. I'm living in Nijmegen which is presumably the oldest town in the Netherlands as it was founded as a military camp by the Romans. There have been findings of roman settlements, but the oldest building still standing is a brick roman chapel from around the 9th or 10th century. It was part of a castle built by Charlemange but almost all of the original castle was burned down centuries ago. Another sad fact is that more than of the old town was flatened to the ground during world war II by bomber planes. Really sad...
+Erik Cederberg Hi Erik. I've thought about that too. But if you just compare it to all of human history - the difference really isn't that big. I find a 400 year old house pretty old! :)
Same here in the UK, so many towns Cities and villages here with countless buildings that are without question or doubt the same age or much much older than this little wooden house. But then it isnt called "the new world" for nothing
There's a church in my town that's between 900 - 800 years old and it's used everyday.
Erik Cederberg American cities are in general much younger than all European Cities and Stockholm is pretty young compared with other European cities Rome or Athens are the oldest
There is a town next to mine named Wyckoff I’m not far from the city so this is a cool video and now I know why it’s named that
What IS The closest Subway Station ?
The Quaker Meeting House in Flushing Queens NY built in 1690s just amazing! A must see! Fantastic !
Loved this!!! Our history is MUCH MORE than the conveniently narrow propaganda we’ve been taught.
So fun to see all the descendants of The Wyckoff family in the comments section. Who needs Genealogy.com when you have UA-cam comments section? Also... it would be weird to meet descendants who are total strangers to you and only related through such a distant relative. I've had the pleasure of visiting my father's ancestral home 10 years ago. Everyone who lived in the village was a relative of mine, descendants through a 5th or 6th grandfather, I think.
Good decision to bring her along. Goooooooood decision.
^^ triggered
I thought the same thing, A real cute butt..
@Jenn Hughes That sounds bitter. Do gorgeous blondes make you feel inferior? You, maybe, should talk to a therapist about this.
Yeah that dude in the videos was eyeing her
Xcuze i hope so! I catch for the same team
Great video. Thanks for posting.
Interesting but kinda sad?
Btw the tour guy is looking mightyyy handsome ;)
+Rob Shaw - What lol
Lol well she better get in line ;D
Matacabrones he gay
Her gaydar went offline.
misspuppa - Perfect!
04:59 She really digs him.
Hey I am from New York. We had a Van Bergen in our school. Fun video. I know you were joking about not knowing what sort of lizard that was on the map. Everyone knows it was a chameleon.
Was dendrochronology ever done to determine when the house was possibly built?
I think the house was definitely built.
Very good question.
In all of the Americas, I think the Spanish missions would be the oldest things
Ammm... What about the thousands of prehispanic constructions like the city of Teotihuacan in Mexico or Machu Picchu in Perú?
Of european colonization***
Charles buyrn
Vikings travels are way older them the middle east Godly missions....
Arab Spanish missions, Jesus Gods? all later!
@@mundano maya empire is not that old!
@@lucasrem It is older than any Spanish missions. History 101.
My ancestors, the Van Campens arrived in New Amsterdam in the 1600s. I'm very interested in learning more about them. I wonder if the name Van Campen was spelled differently.
Van Campen is still a last name in the Netherlands but there is also a last name called Van Kampen.
Maybe this will help you: www.genealogieonline.nl/en/
This guy isn't from NYC it is pronounced; "WHYcoff" not wickoff.
Of course not. He s a smart Dutchman with near perfect English and an ever so slight and cute accent.
@@drottercat he's talking about the American guy
I don't understand why you didn't mention once that it is located in BROOKLYN!!! The address is 5816 Clarendon Rd, BROOKLYN, NY. So yes in NYC but one of BROOKLYN'S landmarks! Give us our due!
New Yorkers Dont know Their History ? IS That what You are saying ?
Are you telling me there is an old house in Brooklyn that mayor Lindsey didn't replace with something new? I guess they didn't tell him about.
My New Netherlander roots settled in the NorthWest corner of New Jersey - one of many Johann Van Ettens (of various spelling varieties) - but I would love the chance to visit this home some time when Corona doesn't have us all on high alert!
I find this very interesting. Man I'm getting old.
The oldest house that is still standing in the U.S., outside of the old Pueblo buildings in New Mexico, is the Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts. It dates back to 1637 and is the oldest timber framed home in the country.
IS That Close to PLYMOUTH Mass ?
St Augustine monastery in Florida, built by the Spanish in the 16th century is the US oldest European building.
@@Hudpix16 Did You know that Vikings found Canada - Way before - The Spanish or Catalonian ? At New FINLAND - Nova SCOTIA !
Holo Holopainen so what, their discovery meant nothing, they didn't even realise they were in a new continent. They just happened to drift too far and they thought they were still in Scandinavia. When Columbus discovered America it meant the beginning of modern colonisation and European world domination, changing history forever. Without Columbus there is no Canada o United States, It doesn't matter that some Vikings wandered there a few hundred years earlier.
@@Hudpix16 The Viking didn't colonize - That IS The Difference ! Do You Think that Bringing - The KINGS RULE - was a Positive - Part of Americas HISTORY ! Even USA IS A REPUBLIC TODAY !
When will you start making more of these videos? I'd really like to know more about what the dutch did in the US!
They went Ducth ! Have You ever heard about The Pennsylvania Dutch ? Great History There !
Go to the genealogy unit or map division of the NYPL on 5th. They can help you investigate this. They have records going back hundreds of years
The Wyckoff House is NOT the only NYC house dating from that period. The John Bowne house (in modern Flushing, Dutch name Vlissingen), was built in 1661. The Dutch ceded control of the New Netherlands colony, which included New Amsterdam, to England in 1664.
okay for you people who think that the US doesn't preserve stuff go to Old historical cities I gave the Charleston South Carolina or Savannah Georgia those are some of the oldest cities in the United States. They're both port cities. also a lot of historical buildings.
Yes the USA does have fine old historic buildings which have somehow survived"development". But none earlier than 1492, unless you count Native American burial mounds, the "pueblos" in the South West and spurious "Viking" discoveries.
Are these older than the Spanish missions in California and other parts of the southwestern US?
The Spaniards had structures already erected in Florida in the 1560's and in Cuba and Puerto Rico in the 1490's. P.S The Netherlands were under Spanish rule until they got kicked out in 1648 but kept a hold onto the Spanish Netherlands (Belgium today) for a while longer.
Galfonz no they are not.
Vikings were to Canada before this ! But Nobody was Home !
I started working at the Wyckoff House in 1982, the year it first opened to the public. The exact date of the oldest section of the house can probably not ever be definitely documented (some sources say as earlier as 1638), but what is important is that this historic house museum interprets a way of life in Brooklyn (and New York City) that is very much forgotten. Additionally, the Dutch presence in New York does not get enough recognition and many historians would argue (Charles Gehring, Morton Wagman & Russell Shorto to name but three) that the character of Dutch in the NY region in the 17th Century contributed greatly to New York City's being a melting pot of cultures and particularly open to social mobility.
That girl totally wanted that blond boy
Nah, he's obviously gay.
Yep, she’s gagging for it.
@Tom Meadows Well go get him, Tiger!
...but while you're there? Maybe have him invite Miss Hot Pants from the video over for Cosmopolitans and "juicy historical gossip" or whatever, and when she's a couple of drinks in, I will then swing by to drop off some irresistible 18th century artifact that I'll say I'd borrowed from Blondie. "Martha Washington's washboard" or something. I'll put a Sotheby's sticker on there to make it look legit. I'm offered a drink...she gets topped up...and by the time I've downed it, you and Blondie can start ignoring me and Hot Pants altogether! This will my opportunity to be all, "...what do you say we leave them alone and take a walk? Beautiful night?"
And then she'd be all, "Tee-hee! Okay!"
Lol yeah
She def wanted the D.
The “wooden nails” (trunnels or tree nails) were used even if they had a blacksmith on site. They were not used because they lacked iron nails. The holes in the framing members would be drilled slightly offset. They would then draw the wood framing members together for a secure, durable and tighter fit as they drove the trunnels into the joint.
Thank you for this cool piece of Brooklyn history.
The Wyckoff House is NOT the only one !! One of the oldest Dutch buildings in NYC is also "The Voorlezerhouse" on Staten Island, on it's original location.(constructed ca. 1769) To see in the Historic Richmond Town open air museum. Built by the Dutch Church as a place of worship, as a school, and as a home for the Voorlezer, who was a lay reader and/or educator. The furnishing is stil original. NYC fan Ruud Mulder The Netherlands.
An other one is:The Dyckman House, now the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, is the oldest remaining farmhouse on Manhattan island, a reminder of New York City's rural past. The Dutch Colonial-style farmhouse was built by William Dyckman, ca.1785. Located: 4881 Broadway, Inwood, Manhattan, New York.
I went inside that house in real life before
Yuh, real life ain’t what it used to be. 😆
This House is in Brooklyn, Ralph ave & Clarendon rd. It was on my footpost in the 67 Pct NYPD
there is WYCKOFF NJ in north NJ 25 minutes from GW Bridge
The Wyckoff House is NOT the only one !! One of the oldest Dutch buildings in NYC is also "The Voorlezerhouse" on Staten Island, on it's original location.(constructed ca. 1769) To see in the Historic Richmond Town open air museum. Built by the Dutch Church as a place of worship, as a school, and as a home for the Voorlezer, who was a lay reader and/or educator. The furnishing is stil original. NYC fan Ruud Mulder The Netherlands.
An other one is:The Dyckman House, now the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, is the oldest remaining farmhouse on Manhattan island, a reminder of New York City's rural past. The Dutch Colonial-style farmhouse was built by William Dyckman, ca.1785. Located: 4881 Broadway, Inwood, Manhattan, New York.
In New York State, there are many people who are descendants of the Dutch settlers. Also, many place names in the state are of Dutch origin.
Ever Forward Yes, like Brooklyn, Flushing, Harlem, Rotterdam, etc. All of the creeks are stilled called “kills” in New York and New Jersey. Similarly, many places in Pennsylvania and Delaware have Swedish names.
She's waaay too thirsty .... the way she looks at the dude ....
Ye, too bad for her that he seems to like the same thing she does
Impossible to hide.
My father side was the Dutch settlers, from Rem Vanderbeek the immigrant to the Remsen line. I'm finding multiple Street names in Brooklyn ( born) that are in my family tree, amazing.
NYC might not have a ton of historic buildings but the rest of NY does. I lived in a home that was built in the late 1700s. Yes that isn't as cool as some of the late 1600 builds but those builds were around the coast and didn't survive and it took a while for the pioneers to come inland where the buildings had a much better chance of surviving. What is really neat about many of these early homes is the cellars all have hand made wooden beams that still have bark on them, and you can see the tooling marks as if they were made yesterday. Modern homes obviously don't have this "charm" but they also don't feel like you are living in a log cabin.
I live in New Netherlands, but about 45 minutes west of New amsterdam, in the taconic mountains
The Wyckoff House is NOT the only one !! One of the oldest Dutch buildings in NYC is also "The Voorlezerhouse" on Staten Island, on it's original location.(constructed ca. 1769) To see in the Historic Richmond Town open air museum. Built by the Dutch Church as a place of worship, as a school, and as a home for the Voorlezer, who was a lay reader and/or educator. The furnishing is stil original. NYC fan Ruud Mulder The Netherlands.
An other one is:The Dyckman House, now the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, is the oldest remaining farmhouse on Manhattan island, a reminder of New York City's rural past. The Dutch Colonial-style farmhouse was built by William Dyckman, ca.1785. Located: 4881 Broadway, Inwood, Manhattan, New York.
I've got socks older thank America's history.
ste ven probably lol but I love that America is new because of how young the nations history is
Do You ever Have / thought of Your Private Museum ! IT IS Easy / to get Visitors of Net Era Kids !
You're welcome?
I remember touring the San Fernando Mission in the days before the 1971 California quake shut the tours down. It was so eerie entering rooms that were like a couple of hundred years old or see candles collapsed over that were a couple of hundred years old...
if I am not mistaken, there was a Dutch settlement on Staten Island (my hometown) as early as 1620. I believe it and its accompanying fort were destroyed by Indian attack.
michael lenza This video is showing the oldest still existing house in New York, not the first house ever built.
Staaten Eylandt as your hometown was known as, is named after the _Staten-Generaal_, a college in which delegates from the States-Provincial of the regions of the Netherlands came together.
I once lived in a log house in western PA that was built in a town incorporated in the 1700s--and I thought that was old!
There is. Book titled “Gotham, A History of New York to 1898” which goes into great detail about the earliest years. It is. Pulitzer Prize winning book and well worth the time for history buff. It is also very interesting from a sociology standpoint as it follows the development of municipal services like fire departments, police, sanitation, social welfare, etc. it is like a time capsule.
so that's where the word "wackoff" came from.
Just over the Philadelphia city line in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania is the Lower Swedish Cabin, a homestead settled in 1638 but the present day cabin dates from between 1640 and 1650.
There's a pub down the street from my hose that's over a hundred years older than that. an fact, there are thousands of them all over the UK.
Oh I wish I could travel around and see historic places.
the Church at the end of my road was built in 888, old buildings are nothing new in England.
Well if you had only come here sooner we could have had even older buildings.
we have a saying in the Royal Enfield forum: In America 100 years is a long time, in England 100 miles is a long way.
"old buildings are nothing new"LMAO! That IS funny.
Yeah, English people don't get hard for old buildings until it's at least 1000 years old. I was standing in a building built 4000 years ago a couple of years ago and that was cool, a building from the 1600s is meh... England also didn't exist in 888 so a countries age is neither here nor there.
MrcabooseVG london was still founded in 50BC
i am very sad that most of the dutch buildings in new amserdam dont exist anymore
The Wyckoff House is NOT the only one !! One of the oldest Dutch buildings in NYC is also "The Voorlezerhouse" on Staten Island, on it's original location.(constructed ca. 1769) To see in the Historic Richmond Town open air museum. Built by the Dutch Church as a place of worship, as a school, and as a home for the Voorlezer, who was a lay reader and/or educator. The furnishing is stil original. NYC fan Ruud Mulder The Netherlands.
An other one is:The Dyckman House, now the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, is the oldest remaining farmhouse on Manhattan island, a reminder of New York City's rural past. The Dutch Colonial-style farmhouse was built by William Dyckman, ca.1785. Located: 4881 Broadway, Inwood, Manhattan, New York.
Lose the music. Wtf.
Crikey my local pub was built in 1459 and my cottage was estimated at 1670... I guess we sometimes forget how old England really is!
A castle in my town,is from 1270.
Our windmill 1659.
Cool Video. Pieter Wyckoff is my 10th Great Grandfather.
you should visit the house. I had a best friend in high school named Wyckoff.
@@jcsgodmother It's definitely on my list of things to do if I ever make it to the east coast. Pieter Wyckoff has so many descendants.
@@jcsgodmother Which High was that ?
Wow! 13 people in a one room house! How did the parents ever get enough privacy to have the last several? I bet that was tricky! ☺️
My grandfather was one of eleven children and lived in a tiny house. So small that he'd often sleep on the back porch in order to have some space.
Either the size of personal space is small with the Dutch or that lady has hearing problems or she really liked that guy -she frequently stood very close to that guy, even made a mild sexual comment ("making those children...").
smfh
potugadu, I guess you've never experienced Dutch bluntness or directness. Sexual Innuendo is likely without the romantic fizzles but eventually understood loud and clear
@Ben Dover
Agree. The Orient is like that too.
Tokyo...HongKong...Manila.
You want privacy? Close your eyes.
The female was a jerk and should have had the sense to put her claws in the guy after the video was turned off.
The castle in the town of Dudley in the UK is a couple of miles from where I live and was built in 1070...that makes it 947 years old...
It isn't in the best of condition to be honest and is far from habitable as it was slighted during the English Civil War during the 1640s; this means our castle was ruined around the same time as the houses in this video were built...and large parts of it still stand! It still serves a purpose as it makes for a very interesting tourist attraction, and is by far the best thing about Dudley (which is crap).
Oldest house in USA is Acoma Pueblo built over 1000 years ago.
And Where IS That ? Sorry / but I live overseas ! Before New Amsterdam ?
@@holoholopainen1627 Google has it but it's in New Mexico
@@holoholopainen1627 Google "Sky City" in New Mexico. Built 900 AD and occupied the whole time and now.
6:10 btw they used wooden nails cause they where cheeper and even with stand time better than iron nails
You want to see unique 17th century buildings? Come to Canada and visit old Montreal and Ville de Quebec or simply Quebec city! Stunning towns! Especially Quebec city. It still has fortified walls around the old town.
This was great, I had no idea this place existed. Thank you!
I THINK SHE IS WANTING SOME AMERICAN MAN
Do You Have - a Manhattan Project - Going on ? Are You selling ?
We need more content from you guys!!
Would have been much easier to date if it were brick-they'd just bend the metal supporting rods into the construction year on the front. ;)
Great video merci!
Which Borough is this old homestead located?
Mostly I have visited densely built-up areas of Manhattan & Brooklyn when in NYC. Cannot tell from the shot of the surrounding low rise Industrial precinct or McDonald's where this might be. No landmarks, recognizable skyscrapers, hi rises, or pattern of tenements or row housing visible. Didn't think any of New York could be called "non-descript" until the shot at 3:37, haha!
BROOKLYN, on Clarendon Road. I used to go to high school very near the WYCKOFF FARM HOUSE MUSEUM.
When looking at the map of North America, you say "the Great Lakes nearly stretched to the west coast" yet the Great Lakes are not even pictured on that map. Do you mean the Hudson Bay?
It's a wonder those old beams in the attic are still there.
Is this family mentioned in the historical records from the archive of accounts reported in SPORTO's book ... 'Island At The Center Of The World '. Evidently the records were sent to Amsterdam after the British took over. It's been years since i read the book. Really interesting back story.
That girl is smokin' hot, damn.
You pervert
@@kim79710 She's Dutch,but who cares?
Going Dutch ? Do You Even know What - that means ?
There is a house standing in my town in New Mexico that was built around 1610, crazy stuff...
the wack off house
Peter Wyckoff and Sarah Amerman are my 10th Great Grandparents. Would love to know more about Dirk Janse Amerman her father, Hope I get to visit someday. On my bucket list.😊
Love old houses & the history great video
Yes Wyckhoff House is. In Terminal Market area of Brooklyn, Near Avenue D, and Ditmars and Clarendon streets
Meh. The oldest building in the USA is in Santa Fe, NM, and it's older than this old farm house.
HighLonesomeRob
And?
I drive by the oldest home in America daily in Dedham ma, Check out the Fairbanks house they give tours and its in a very nice neighborhood of the highway and close to Boston
I live in Boston, love history, and have never heard of the Fairbanks House. Thanks for the suggestion, rich5817!
The blonde acts like she's got a few loose screws in her head.
I think she doesn't have them all in a row.
Hak Kar That ass, though.
No one is obligated to act in a mannner that doesn't make you uncomfortable.
She wants to do the no pants dance with the homosexual feller.
No.My ex was crazy.This chic is fine.Fine as hell,in fact.
Thanks for doing this, I am from Newtown and am thinking of doing a UTube video on the history of Newtown, what you failed to say is that this house is not on Manhattan it’s on Long Island, Brooklyn to be exact. I don’t think it’s older because that is near the first farms settled in Queens, it was called Mespat, however in 1642 they were attacked by Indians and the settlement destroyed. 10 years later some of the survivors of the original settlement and some Englishmen moving west from settlements on eastern Long Island built another settlement in Queens and called it Newtown, to distinguish it from Mespat, Newtown was renamed Elmhurst around 1895, very few of the buildings in Newtown survive, New Yorkers actually care little for history unfortunately, the oldest building besides the Wycoff farm is the Episcopal church of ST. James built in 1732, on Broadway and 51st. Av. Being from the Netherlands you might be interested in researching the Dutch Reformed Church that resides in Elmhurst on Broadway between Corona AV and 51st AV. The current building is from 1848 but it stands on a location of earlier church buildings from at least the early 18th century, it’s also surrounded by a cemetery that dates back to the early 1700s.
I visited all 5 of the sites for the original Dutch Reformed Church in NYC. Very interesting. You haven't seen New York unless you have seen New Amsterdam.
It is beautiful to see the White heritage of New York. They sure do not teach you about that in school these days, though.
Dovenpeis Built most likely by black hands
A great white shark killed a guy in Cape Cod last week now that white privilege
golly gee i think i had a brain hemorrhage
White heritage? Does everything have to be about skin color these days?? Just appreciate the historic value of this building.
John Harrison Blacks didn’t build shit
I’d dig if I wanted to find out more. Looks like there could be a basement. Maybe ground level is higher ?