 Interior View of Wyckoff Durling Barn to be Reconstructed in Brooklyn.  Harriet Durling outside the Wyckoff Durling Barn. |
News and Publicity For our Press Room, please click here For the latest on public events, educational programs, and our exciting landscape reconstruction and barn projects, please click here to read the Museum's quarterly Newsletter, Huisvriend/Friend of the House. If you'd like to receive the Huisvriend just drop us an email or give a call, and we'll add you to our mailing list. NATIONAL CALL FOR WYCKOFFS! ALL WYCKOFFS, REGARDLESS OF SPELLING, BELONG TO THE SAME FAMILY Some time after 1664, Pieter Claessen chose the surname Wyckoff under pressure from English law. In the 17th century there were few fixed rules about spelling and particularly in view of the English trying to decipher Dutch pronunciations, many variations of names ended up on assorted documents. The spelling WYCKOFF is our base spelling because it is found on the oldest document we have in our archives bearing Pieter’s name written by an English clerk as witness to his mark. Over time the same thing happened again and again as the family moved westward and subsequent generations found the pronunciation of their name phonetically interpreted by people who had never seen it. Today there are approximately 60 known variations on the family name according to census records between 1790 and 1900, after which no new spellings appeared. If you find your name below, Waychoff Wayckoff Waycoff Waycuff Wecoff Weykoff Whychoff Whyckoff Whycoff Whycough Wichoff Wickloff Wickoff Wickolff Wickuff Wicoaff Wicoff Wicoft Wicolf Wicoof Wicough Wicuff Wihoff Wieckhoff Wiekoff Wikeuff Wikif Wikoff Wikooff Wilcoff Wilcuff Wycaff Wychoff Wycoff Wyckof Wyckoff Wycloff Wycof Wycoffe Wycoop Wycouff Wycough Wycott Wycroft Wycroff Wycuf Wycuff Wycup Wydoff Wyecoff Wyihoff Wyhoff Wyhkoff Wykeoff Wykhoff Wykof Wykoff Wykoff Wykuff CLICK HERE TO BECOME A MEMBER! Contact us at development@wyckoffassociation.org or at 718.629.5400. A Brooklyn Barn Raising! Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum to Raise Historic Wyckoff Family Barn For the first time in over 150 years a Dutch timber-frame barn will rise in Brooklyn to tell the story of the Borough's lost farm history. The Wyckoff House & Association and City of New York / Department of Parks & Recreation plan to relocate an early 19th-century Dutch-American barn from the Wyckoff Durling Farm in Somerset County, New Jersey and reconstruct it in M. Fidler-Wyckoff House Park in East Flatbush. The barn will dramatically enhance the interpretation of the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House, which dates to c.1652 and is the City's oldest structure and first designated Landmark. For two centuries such barns were a common sight in Brooklyn, where Dutch-American farmers worked the fertile land for generations. Fourteen Dutch-American farmhouses survived the Borough's 20th development but no barns. For detailed survey drawings of the Wyckoff Durling Barn and morephotos of its current state, please CLICK HERE to see the full Survey Report by Architect James Dart and Dutch-American barn historian,Gregory Huber of Past Perspectives. This project will greatly expand and enhance the Museum's programs, while simultaneously restoring the integrity of the site as the City's oldest surviving farmstead. The Wyckoff Durling Barn, with its impressive and well-preserved timber-frame structure, will be open to the public and enable the Museum to present a much more complete story of a working Dutch-American farm. A reconstructed wing will house public functions currently located in the Wyckoff House. This will help preserve the House and enable it to be completely open to the public. Together, the barn and its wing will also provide exhibit space where the Museum's important collection of artifacts and archival documents, including 17th-C Dutch manuscripts and 19th-C bills of sale for slaves on the farm, will be better preserved and accessible to the public. The Historic House Trust of NYC and Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities are partners in the operation of the Museum and are advising on the project. The Wyckoff House & Association has hired James Dart Architect to provide planning and design services. The barn project is part of the larger redevelopment of the Museum as the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum and Education Center. The first phase of this project is the restoration of the site's historic landscape and drainage improvements and is scheduled to begin in Summer 2003. The barn raising will take place upon completion of the landscape project in Summer 2004. Both projects are made possible with the generous support of Assemblywoman Helene E. Weinstein. Councilmen Kendall Stewart and Lewis Fidler have also provided funding. To date, other principal supporters of the barn project include: E. Lisk Wyckoff, Jr, The Homeland Foundation, William and Mary Beth Brown, and many individual contributors among the public and Wyckoff descendants throughout North America. FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO DONATE PLEASE CONTACT: Byron C. Saunders, Executive Director Wyckoff House & Association 5816 Clarendon Road Brooklyn, NY 11203 Phone: (718) 629-5400 Fax: (718) 629-3125 E-mail: director@wyckoffassociation.org |
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