Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead
Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead | |
Dutch Colonial | |
NRHP reference No. | 74001253 |
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Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | December 24, 1974[1] |
Designated NHL | December 8, 1976[2] |
The Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead in
It was owned and occupied by the Wyckoff Family from when it was built, by Hendrick H. Wyckoff, in approximately 1766,[4] until 1835 when Cornelius W. Bennett purchased it and the approximately 100 acre farm. Four generations of the Bennett family lived in the home until the death of Gertrude Ryder Bennett Williams in 1982, after which her widower, Rev. Frank Curtis Williams, sold the home to Annette and Stuart Mont.[5]
The property is one of the last privately owned
A plaque outside the homestead says:[7]
This Dutch-American farmhouse is a quiet reminder that the Battle of Brooklyn, one of the biggest conflicts of the Revolutionary War, took place when Kings County was still mostly farm country. The county boasted fewer than 4,000 inhabitants, one third of whom were slaves working on land owned by families descended from 17th-century Dutch immigrants. Hendrick Wyckoff built the house in 1766. The site he chose lay along Kings Highway, then the county's main east-west artery. After the British invasion in 1776, Hessian soldiers were quartered here. Several of them left their mark by etching their names and rank on window panes among them Toepfer Captain Regt. De Ditrurth and "M. Bach Lieutenant V. Hessen Hanau Artillerie's". When the Battle of Brooklyn began on August 27, 1776, these men may well have taken part in the attack that drove American defenders from the Battle Pass, in what is now Prospect Park, and nearly destroyed the army under command of George Washington.
On October 14, 2021,the entire property was sold for $2.4 million dollars to "22nd Street Investors" according to City records.
See also
- Wyckoff House, another historic house in Brooklyn
- Oldest buildings in America
- List of National Historic Landmarks in New York City
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Brooklyn
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ a b "Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. September 19, 2007.
- ^ Carolyn Pitts (August 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead" (pdf). National Park Service.
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(help) - ^ "Designation Reports - LPC". www.nyc.gov. January 17, 1968. Retrieved May 30, 2023.
- ^ ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 30, 2023.
- ^ Klein, Helen (February 15, 2010). "Penny wise, pound foolish, city back off chance to purchase historic home". Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved May 30, 2023.
- ^ Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead Historic District - New York City
External links
- Brooklyn Genealogical Information page on Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead
- Historical Marker Database Wyckoff Bennett Mont House Revolutionary War Heritage Trail