List of the oldest buildings in New York

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. Only houses built prior to 1725 are suitable for inclusion on this list, or the building must be the oldest of its type. If the exact year of initial construction is estimated, it will be shown as a range of dates.

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Building	Image	Location	First Built	Notes
Wyckoff House		Canarsie, Brooklyn	1652	Oldest surviving structure in New York, oldest in Brooklyn, oldest on Long Island.
Zachariah Hawkins House		Stony Brook	1660 c.
Bronck House		Coxsackie	1663	Oldest house in Upstate New York
Billiou–Stillwell–Perine House		Dongan Hills, Staten Island	1665	Oldest surviving structure in Staten Island
Brewster House		East Setauket	1665
		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		Flushing	1669[2]	Oldest surviving structure in Queens; once hosted a well-known Quaker meeting
Cubberly-Britton Cottage		Staten Island	1670
Abraham Manee House		Staten Island	1670
Jans Martense Schenck house		Brooklyn	1675	Originally in Flatlands; installed within the Brooklyn Museum 1964
Old Senate House		City of Kingston	1676	New York State Constitution written and signed here
Conference House		Staten Island	1680	Listed as a National Historic Landmark
Timothy Knapp House		Rye	1680	Listed on National Register of Historic Places
Van Nostrand-Starkins House		Roslyn	1680[3]	Main Street Historic District (Roslyn, New York)
Chichester's Inn		West Hills	1680 [4]	Listed on National Register of Historic Places. Also known as the 'Peace and Plenty Inn'.
Bevier House Museum		Marbletown	1680 [5]	Currently houses the Ulster County Historical Society
Philipse Manor Hall		Yonkers	1682	Oldest surviving structure in Westchester County.
Old Halsey House		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/
Alice Austen House		Staten Island	1690	Built by a Dutch merchant then remodeled in the Gothic Revival Style in 1844
		Amagansett	1690[citation needed]	Built by Jeremiah Conkling and his wife Mary, daughter of Lion Gardiner, first English settler of New York colony[citation needed]
Joseph Whitman House		West Hills, Long Island	1692
Old Quaker Meeting House		Flushing	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		Sleepy Hollow	1697	Possibly the oldest surviving church in the state. May date to 1685.
Old House		Cutchogue	1699[10]	Dated by dendrochronology
De Wint House		Tappan	1700	Washington Revolutionary headquarters; one of the oldest surviving buildings in Rockland County
Ezra Carll Homestead		South Huntington, Long Island	1700
Jarvis-Fleet House		Huntington, Long Island	1700
Lispenard–Rodman–Davenport House		New Rochelle	1700
Tobias van Steenburgh House		Kingston	1700	One of the few buildings in Kingston not burned in 1777 by British troops
Treasure House		Staten Island	1700
Tysen-Neville House		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		Rotterdam	1705	The oldest house in the Mohawk Valley
Jan Van Loon House		Village of Athens	1706	One of the oldest houses in Greene County[11]
Crailo		Rensselaer	1707	Residence of Hendrick van Rensselaer
Madam Brett Homestead		Beacon	1709	Oldest building in Dutchess County, first house on Rombout Patent, on National Register
Gomez Mill House		Town of Newburgh	1712	Oldest known extant residence of a Jewish American
Lewis Pintard House		New Rochelle	1710	Home of Revolutionary War patriot Lewis Pintard
Fraunces Tavern		Lower Manhattan	1719	Etienne "Stephen" DeLancey built the current building as his house; tavern since 1762
Brinckerhoff House		Fishkill, NY	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[citation needed]
Ariaanje Coeymans House		Coeymans	1720	There is another Coeymans house a mile south of this one, on the Hannacroix Creek. Date unknown.
Hendrick I. Lott House		Brooklyn	1720
Jan Van Hoesen House		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		Hamptonburgh	1720s	Property also contains the oldest intact Dutch barn in the state
Thomas Dodge Homestead		Port Washington, Long Island	1721	The original farmhouse was built in 1721 with additions completed in 1750 and 1903
Kreuzer-Pelton House		Staten Island	1722
Albertus Van Loon House		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		Village of Youngstown	1726	Oldest building on the Great lakes and one of the longest continuously run military bases in the United States, 1726–present-day
48 Hudson Avenue		Albany	1728	Oldest stand-alone structure in Albany
Lent Homestead		East Elmhurst, Queens	1729	The western portion of the house may date to 1654
Benner House		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		Jamaica	1730	The rear section of the house dates to 1730, the left section to 1755, the main structure (right section) to 1806.
Suydam House		Centerport, Long Island	c. 1730
John Rogers House		Dix Hills, Long Island	1732
[citation needed]		Fort Hunter	1734
Cornelius Van Wyck House		Douglaston	1735
[citation needed]		Selkirk, Albany County	c. 1735	Home of Rensselaer Nicoll and Elizabeth Salisbury Nicoll
St. James Church		Elmhurst	1736
Jacob Smith House		West Hills, Long Island	c. 1740	The home consists of a three-bay, 1 1⁄2-story saltbox built about 1740 and a five-bay, 1 1⁄2-story dwelling with a shed roof wing added about 1830.
Lake-Tysen House		Oakwood, Staten Island	1740
Kasparus Westervelt House [12]		Town of Poughkeepsie	1745
Stoothoff–Baxter–Kouwenhaven House		Flatlands, Brooklyn	1747
Van Cortlandt House		Van Cortlandt Park	1748	Oldest building in the Bronx
Creedmoor (Cornell) Farmhouse		Glen Oaks	1750
David Conklin House		Huntington, Long Island	c. 1750
Ireland-Gardiner Farm		Greenlawn, Long Island	c. 1750
Isaac Losee House		Huntington, Long Island	c. 1750	One of the oldest private residences on Long Island
Henry Smith Farmstead		Huntington Station, Long Island	1750	Built about 1750 and remodelled in the 1860s
		Rhinebeck	1750	German vernacular stone house built into a hillside with an unusual sweeping Dutch roof
		Smithtown	1752
Stone Jug		Clermont	1752	Contributing property to the Hudson River Historic District
The Old 76 House		Tappan	1754	Oldest surviving building in Rockland County; third oldest public house in America; Maj. John Andre held before trial and hanging in Tappan
The Christopher House		Staten Island	1756
Valentine–Varian House		Norwood, Bronx	1758	Second oldest house in the Bronx
		Northport	1761	Located near Great Cow Harbor and Red Hook.
Strawberry Hill		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		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		Manhattan	1765
Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead		Flatlands, Brooklyn	1766
Beekman Arms and Delamater Inn		Village of Rhinebeck	1766[13]	Oldest surviving inn in America and oldest structure in the village.
Indian Castle Church		Danube	1769	Only colonial Indian missionary church surviving in the state, and the only Iroquois building surviving from its time[14]
Voorlezer's House		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		Richmondtown	1770
Fulton County Courthouse		Johnstown	1772	Oldest courthouse in the United States that remains in use
Kingsland Homestead		Flushing	1774
Lefferts Homestead		Brooklyn	1777	Moved to Prospect Park from its original location at 563 Flatbush Avenue
Dyckman House		Inwood, Manhattan	1784	Only remaining original farmhouse in Manhattan
Edward Mooney House		Manhattan	1785	Oldest surviving row house in Manhattan
		Hampton Bays	1785	Oldest surviving row house in Hampton Bays
Stone-Tolan House		Brighton	c. 1792	A Federal-style structure said to be the oldest surviving building in Monroe County
Joost Van Nuyse House		Flatlands, Brooklyn	1793
Bridge Cafe		Manhattan	1795	Oldest wooden building in Manhattan
Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church		Flatbush	1796
Blackwell House		Roosevelt Island	1796	40°45′37″N 73°57′4″W / 40.76028°N 73.95111°W / 40.76028; -73.95111’
		Midwood	1800	1041 East 22nd Street [1] 40°37′36.5″N 73°57′15.5″W / 40.626806°N 73.954306°W / 40.626806; -73.954306
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[15]
Swart-Wilcox House		Oneonta	1807	Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1807. Now operated as the Swart-Wilcox House Museum..
J. Crew and liquor store		Tribeca, Manhattan	1809	235 W Broadway. Small Federal style row house
Willets Point Farmhouse		Bayside, now Fort Totten	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		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 home[citation needed]		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		Staten Island	1836	1836 brick Federal-style building now used as clubhouse for city-owned golf course.[16]
Anshe Slonim Synagogue		Lower Manhattan	1849	Oldest surviving synagogue building in New York City
203 East 29th Street		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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External links[]

• International Architecture database
• Newsday.com article (accessed August 3, 2008)