Wyckoff House & Association

Museum

The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum

Begun ca. 1652, the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House is New York City’s oldest structure. It was the first site to be designated a Landmark upon the creation of the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1965 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1968.

Pieter Claesen emigrated from the Netherlands in 1637 as an indentured farm worker and through connections to Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General of New Netherlands, settled in what was then known as Nieuw Amersfoort in 1652. Successive generations of Wyckoffs farmed the land until 1901. Peter Claesen Wyckoff's descendants donated the house to the City in 1969 and after an exhaustive restoration it opened as a museum in 1982.

The Museum is owned by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, administered by the Historic House Trust of New York City, and operated by the Wyckoff House & Association, Inc., a nonprofit educational organization incorporated in 1972.