List of the oldest buildings in New York

See also: Oldest buildings in America

This article attempts to list the oldest extant buildings in the state of New York built by Europeans (English, Dutch, French) and Native Americans.

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Building	Image	Location	First Built	Notes
A Carpenter's Shed		Gardiners Island	1639	Possibly oldest building in New York
Old House		Cutchogue	1649	One of the oldest houses in the state; moved in 1661 to present site from Southold
Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House		Brooklyn	1652	Oldest surviving structure in New York City
Old Halsey House‎		Southampton, New York	1660	1660 build date according to the local historical society in Southampton http://www.southamptonhistoricalmuseum.org/
John Bowne House		Flushing	1661	Oldest surviving structure in Queens; once hosted a well-known Quaker meeting
Billou-Stillwell-Perine House		Staten Island	1662	Oldest surviving structure in Staten Island
Bronck House		Coxsackie	1663	Oldest house in upstate New York
The Old 76 House		Tappan	1668	Oldest surviving building in Rockland County; third oldest public house in America; Maj. John Andre held before trial and hanging in Tappan
Cubberly-Britton Cottage		Staten Island	1670
Manee-Seguine Homestead		Staten Island	1670
Timothy Knapp House		Rye	1670	Listed on National Registry of Historic Places
Conference House		Staten Island	1675	Listed on National Historic Landmark
Jans Martense Schenck house		Brooklyn	1675	located within the Brooklyn Museum
Old Senate House		Kingston, New York	1676	New York State Constitution written and signed here
Van Nostrand-Starkins House		Roslyn	1680	[1]
Philipse Manor Hall		Yonkers	1682	Oldest surviving structure in Westchester County.
Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow		Sleepy Hollow	1685	Oldest surviving church in the state
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
Friends Meeting House		Queens	1694
Abraham Manee House (Manee-Seguine Homestead)		Staten Island	1600s	Built by Abraham Manee, the house was also occupied by General Vaughan, the British commander during the Revolution.
Voorlezer's House		Staten Island	1695	Oldest school house in America
Tobias van Steenburgh House		Kingston	1700	One of the few buildings in Kingston not burned in 1777 by British troops
Tysen-Neville House		Staten Island	1700
Treasure House		Staten Island	1700
De Wint House		Tappan	1700	Washington Revolutionary headquarters; one of the oldest surviving buildings in Rockland County
Beekman Arms Inn		Village of Rhinebeck	1700	Oldest surviving inn in America and oldest structure in the village
Crailo		Rensselaer, New York	1704	Residence of Hendrick van Rensselaer
Jan Van Loon House		Village of Athens	1706	one of the oldest houses in Greene County
Gomez Mill House		Town of Newburgh	1712	Oldest known extant residence of a Jewish American
Ariaanje Coeymans House		Coeymans, New York	1716	There is another Coeymans house a mile south of this one, on the Hannacroix Creek. Date unknown.
Fraunces Tavern		Manhattan	1719	Etienne "Stephen" DeLancey built the current building as his house; tavern since 1762
Bull Stone House		Hamptonburgh	1720s	Property also contains the oldest intact Dutch barn in the state
Hendrick I. Lott House		Brooklyn	1720
Jan Van Hoesen House		Claverack	c. 1720
Kreuzer-Pelton House		Staten Island	1722
Albertus Van Loon House		Village of Athens	1724	Possibly the second-oldest house in Greene County
French Castle at Fort Niagara		Youngstown, New York	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		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		Queens	1730	The rear section of the house dates to 1730, the left section to 1755, the main structure (right section) to 1806.
Cornelius Van Wyck House		Queens	1735
Lake-Tysen House		Staten Island	1740
Stoothoff-Baxter-Kouwenhoven House		Brooklyn	1747
Van Cortlandt House		Van Cortlandt Park	1748	Oldest building in the Bronx
Creedmoor (Cornell) Farmhouse		Queens	1750
The Christopher House		Staten Island	1756
Valentine-Varian House		Norwood	1758	Second oldest house in the Bronx
St. Paul's Chapel		Manhattan	1764	Oldest surviving church in New York City
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[2]
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		Manhattan	1784	Only remaining original farmhouse in Manhattan
Edward Mooney House		Manhattan	1785	Oldest surviving row house in Manhattan
Coe House		Brooklyn	1793
Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church		Brooklyn	1796
Van Nuyse-Magaw House		Brooklyn	1800
Anshe Slonim Synagogue		New York City	1849	Oldest surviving synagogue building in New York City
Hotel Pennsylvania		New York City	1919	Oldest original Hotel in the Manhattan in New York City

See also

• Oldest buildings in the United States

Notes

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ "Indian Castle Church data pages". Historic American Buildings Survey. Library of Congress. 2007-11-16. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=pphhdatapage&fileName=ny/ny0200/ny0231/data/hhdatapage.db&title2=Indian%20Castle%20Church,%20State%20Route%2055,%20Danube,%20Herkimer%20County,%20NY&recNum=0&itemLink=D?hh:2:./temp/~pp_MxpC::. 

External links

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