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 | |
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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 | Main Street Historic District (Roslyn, New York) | ||
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 | ||
Friends Meeting House | Queens | 1694. | If Sleepy Hollow Church is correctly dated to 1697, this is the oldest religious building in NY State. It is the oldest in New York City in any case. | ||
Abraham Manee House (Manee-Seguine Homestead) | Staten Island | 1600s | Built by Abraham Manee | ||
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 | ||
Lispenard-Rodman-Davenport House | New Rochelle | 1700 | |||
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. | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
Abraham Yates House | Schenectady | ca. 1725 | Possibly the oldest house in Schenectady | ||
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 | ||
Strawberry Hill | Rhinebeck, New York | 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 | ||
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 | ||
Joost Van Nuyse House | Flatlands, Brooklyn | 1793 | |||
Bridge Cafe | Manhattan | 1795 | Oldest wooden building in Manhattan | ||
Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church | Flatbush, Brooklyn | 1796 | |||
Van Nuyse-Magaw House | Brooklyn | 1800 | 1041 East Forty Second Street | ||
Anshe Slonim Synagogue | New York City | 1849 | Oldest surviving synagogue building in New York City |
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