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.

Building	Image	Location	First Built	Notes
Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House		Brooklyn	1652	Oldest surviving structure in New York City
Billiou–Stillwell–Perine House		Staten Island	1662	Oldest surviving structure in Staten Island
Bronck House		Coxsackie	1663	Oldest house in Upstate New York
Brewster House		East Setauket	1665	One of the oldest houses on Long Island
John Bowne House		Flushing	1669[1]	Oldest surviving structure in Queens; once hosted a well-known Quaker meeting
Cubberly-Britton Cottage		Staten Island	1670
Abraham Manee House		Staten Island	1670
Timothy Knapp House		Rye	1670	Listed on National Register of Historic Places
Ariaanje Coeymans House		Coeymans	1675	There is another Coeymans house a mile south of this one, on the Hannacroix Creek. Date unknown.
Conference House		Staten Island	1675	Listed as a National Historic Landmark
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
Van Leuven-Bevier House Museum		Marbletown	1680 [2]	Built by Andries Pieterse Van Leuven in 1680, on land he purchased from the Esopus Indians. Currently houses the Ulster County Historical Society
Van Nostrand-Starkins House		Roslyn	1680[3]	Main Street Historic District (Roslyn, New York)
Old Halsey House		Village of Southampton	1683	1683 build date according to the local historical society in Southampton http://www.southamptonhistoricalmuseum.org/
Philipse Manor Hall		Yonkers	1682	Oldest surviving structure in Westchester County.
Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow		Sleepy Hollow	1685	Possibly the oldest surviving church in the state. May date only to 1697, which would place it 2nd to Flushing Meeting House, Queens.
Alice Austen House		Staten Island	1690	Built by a Dutch merchant then remodeled in the Gothic Revival Style in 1844
Jeremiah Conklin House		Amagansett	1690	Built by Jeremiah Conkling and his wife Mary, daughter of Lion Gardiner, first English settler of New York colony
Joseph Whitman House		West Hills, Long Island	1692
Old Quaker Meeting House		Flushing	1694	Oldest religious building in New York City still standing [4]
Voorlezer's House		Staten Island	1695	Oldest school house in America
Joachim Staats House[5]		Staats Island, Rensselaer County	1696[6]	Called Hoogebergh, meaning "high hill", the house has remained the family homestead since it was erected by Joachim Staats in 1696.[6] 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.[7]
Old House		Cutchogue	1699[8]	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
Beekman Arms and Delamater Inn		Village of Rhinebeck	1766[9]	Oldest surviving inn in America and oldest structure in the village.
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
Crailo		Rensselaer	1704	Residence of Hendrick van Rensselaer
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[10]
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
Pieter Winne House		Selkirk, Albany County	1720	Purportedly the oldest house in the Town of Bethlehem
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
Kreuzer-Pelton House		Staten Island	1722
Albertus Van Loon House		Village of Athens	1724	Possibly the second-oldest house in Greene County
Abraham Yates House		Schenectady	ca. 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
Queen Anne Parsonage		Fort Hunter	1734
Cornelius Van Wyck House		Douglaston	1735
Nicoll-Sill House – Bethlehem House		Selkirk, Albany County	c1735	Home of Rensselaer Nicoll and Elizabeth Salisbury Nicoll
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		Staten Island	1740
Kasparus Westervelt House [11]		Town of Poughkeepsie	1745
Stoothoff–Baxter–Kouwenhaven House		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	c. 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
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	1758	Second oldest house in the Bronx
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		Brooklyn	1766
Indian Castle Church		Danube	1769	Only colonial Indian missionary church surviving in the state, and the only Iroquois building surviving from its time[12]
Boehm-Frost House		Staten Island	1770
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
Stone-Tolan House		Brighton, New York	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’
Van Nuyse-Magaw House		Brooklyn	1800	1041 East 22nd Street 40°37′36.5″N 73°57′15.5″W / 40.626806°N 73.954306°W / 40.626806; -73.954306
The Wadsworth Homestead		Geneseo, New York	1804	Built in 1804 by James Wadsworth who came to Geneseo in 1790. Originally a two-story foursquare home with an east–west central hallway dividing four rooms on the first and second floor. The house was enlarged in 1815, adding two large rooms to the south-end first floor and a nursery on the second floor. In 1875 Emmeline Austin Wadsworth had her son William move the house 100 yards to the south, using oxen. At this time Sturges and Brigham architects were hired to add a third floor and fine embellishments throughout, including carved fireplace mantels and a grand central stair. The home continues to be occupied by the Wadsworths.[13]
J. Crew and liquor store		Manhattan, New York	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, New York	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		Eden,NY	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.
LaTourette House		Staten Island	1836	1836 brick Federal-style building now used as clubhouse for city-owned golf course.[14]
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)