List of the oldest buildings in New York - wikipedia List of the oldest buildings in New York See also : List of the oldest buildings in the United States This article attempts to list the oldest buildings in the state of New York, including the oldest houses and any other surviving structures. Some dates are approximate and based on architectural studies and historical records ; other dates are based on dendrochronology. All entries should include citation with reference to : architectural features indicative of the date of construction ; a report by an architectural historian ; or dendrochronology. Sites on the list are generally from the First Period of American architecture. Only houses built prior to 1725 are suitable for inclusion on this list, or the building must be the oldest of its type. If the exact year of initial construction is estimated, it will be shown as a range of dates. This list is incomplete ; you can help by expanding it. Building Image Location First Built Notes Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House Brooklyn 1652 Oldest surviving structure in New York City Billiou -- Stillwell -- Perine House Staten Island 1662 Oldest surviving structure in Staten Island Bronck House Coxsackie 1663 Oldest house in Upstate New York Brewster House East Setauket 1665 One of the oldest houses on Long Island John Bowne House Flushing 1669 Oldest surviving structure in Queens ; once hosted a well - known Quaker meeting Cubberly - Britton Cottage Staten Island 1670 Abraham Manee House Staten Island 1670 Timothy Knapp House Rye 1670 Listed on National Register of Historic Places Ariaanje Coeymans House Coeymans 1675 There is another Coeymans house a mile south of this one, on the Hannacroix Creek. Date unknown. Conference House Staten Island 1675 Listed as a National Historic Landmark Jans Martense Schenck house Brooklyn 1675 Originally in Flatlands ; installed within the Brooklyn Museum 1964 Old Senate House City of Kingston 1676 New York State Constitution written and signed here Van Leuven - Bevier House Museum Marbletown 1680 Built by Andries Pieterse Van Leuven in 1680, on land he purchased from the Esopus Indians. Currently houses the Ulster County Historical Society Van Nostrand - Starkins House Roslyn 1680 Main Street Historic District ( Roslyn, New York ) Old Halsey House Village of Southampton 1683 1683 build date according to the local historical society in Southampton http://www.southamptonhistoricalmuseum.org/ 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 Joseph Whitman House West Hills, Long Island 1692 Old Quaker Meeting House Flushing 1694 Oldest religious building in New York City still standing Voorlezer 's House Staten Island 1695 Oldest school house in America Joachim Staats House Staats Island, Rensselaer County 1696 Called Hoogebergh, meaning `` high hill '', the house has remained the family homestead since it was erected by Joachim Staats in 1696. William Staats, a 9th generation Hoogebergh inhabitant, details the history of the house and chronicles the family anecdotes of the 20th century in his book, Three Centuries on the Hudson River. Old House Cutchogue 1699 Dated by dendrochronology De Wint House Tappan 1700 Washington Revolutionary headquarters ; one of the oldest surviving buildings in Rockland County Ezra Carll Homestead South Huntington, Long Island 1700 Jarvis - Fleet House Huntington, Long Island 1700 Lispenard -- Rodman -- Davenport House New Rochelle 1700 Beekman Arms and Delamater Inn Village of Rhinebeck 1766 Oldest surviving inn in America and oldest structure in the village. Tobias van Steenburgh House Kingston 1700 One of the few buildings in Kingston not burned in 1777 by British troops Treasure House Staten Island 1700 Tysen - Neville House Staten Island 1700 Crailo Rensselaer 1704 Residence of Hendrick van Rensselaer John Wood House Huntington Station, Long Island 1704 Built by a Dutch merchant then remodeled in the Gothic Revival Style in 1844 Mabee House Rotterdam 1705 The oldest house in the Mohawk Valley Jan Van Loon House Village of Athens 1706 One of the oldest houses in Greene County Madam Brett Homestead Beacon 1709 Oldest building in Dutchess County, first house on Rombout Patent, on National Register Gomez Mill House Town of Newburgh 1712 Oldest known extant residence of a Jewish American 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 Brinckerhoff House Fishkill, NY 1717 Originally two - room stone cottage used as a trading post and later rebuilt as a mansion. Pieter Winne House Selkirk, Albany County 1720 Purportedly the oldest house in the Town of Bethlehem Hendrick I. Lott House Brooklyn 1720 Jan Van Hoesen House Claverack c. 1720 John Oakley House West Hills, Long Island c. 1720 The original structure was built about 1720 and expanded in the 1780s. Bull Stone House Hamptonburgh 1720s Property also contains the oldest intact Dutch barn in the state 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 Village of Youngstown 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 East Elmhurst, 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 Jamaica 1730 The rear section of the house dates to 1730, the left section to 1755, the main structure ( right section ) to 1806. Suydam House Centerport, Long Island c. 1730 John Rogers House Dix Hills, Long Island 1732 Queen Anne Parsonage Fort Hunter 1734 Cornelius Van Wyck House Douglaston 1735 Nicoll - Sill House -- Bethlehem House Selkirk, Albany County c1735 Home of Rensselaer Nicoll and Elizabeth Salisbury Nicoll Jacob Smith House West Hills, Long Island c. 1740 The home consists of a three - bay, 1 1 ⁄ 2 - story saltbox built about 1740 and a five - bay, 1 1 ⁄ 2 - story dwelling with a shed roof wing added about 1830. Lake - Tysen House Staten Island 1740 Kasparus Westervelt House Town of Poughkeepsie 1745 Stoothoff -- Baxter -- Kouwenhaven House Brooklyn 1747 Van Cortlandt House Van Cortlandt Park 1748 Oldest building in the Bronx Creedmoor ( Cornell ) Farmhouse Glen Oaks 1750 David Conklin House Huntington, Long Island c. 1750 Ireland - Gardiner Farm Greenlawn, Long Island c. 1750 Isaac Losee House Huntington, Long Island c. 1750 One of the oldest private residences on Long Island Henry Smith Farmstead Huntington Station, Long Island c. 1750 Built about 1750 and remodelled in the 1860s Steenburgh Tavern Rhinebeck 1750 German vernacular stone house built into a hillside with an unusual sweeping Dutch roof The Old 76 House Tappan 1754 Oldest surviving building in Rockland County ; third oldest public house in America ; Maj. John Andre held before trial and hanging in Tappan The Christopher House Staten Island 1756 Valentine -- Varian House Norwood 1758 Second oldest house in the Bronx Strawberry Hill Rhinebeck 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 Stone - Tolan House Brighton, New York c. 1792 A Federal - style structure said to be the oldest surviving building in Monroe County Joost Van Nuyse House Flatlands, Brooklyn 1793 Bridge Cafe Manhattan 1795 Oldest wooden building in Manhattan Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church Flatbush 1796 Blackwell House Roosevelt Island 1796 40 ° 45 ′ 37 '' N 73 ° 57 ′ 4 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 40.76028 ° N 73.95111 ° W ﻿ / 40.76028 ; - 73.95111 ' Van Nuyse - Magaw House Brooklyn 1800 1041 East 22nd Street ( 1 ) 40 ° 37 ′ 36.5 '' N 73 ° 57 ′ 15.5 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 40.626806 ° N 73.954306 ° W ﻿ / 40.626806 ; - 73.954306 Wadsworth Homestead Geneseo, New York 1804 Built in 1804 by James Wadsworth who came to Geneseo in 1790. Originally a two - story foursquare home. Enlarged in 1815 J. Crew and liquor store Manhattan, New York 1809 235 W Broadway. Small Federal style row house Willets Point Farmhouse Bayside, now Fort Totten 1829 Built by Charles and Martha Willet and eventually moved to Fort Totten. The fort itself was built in 1857, and an Officer 's Club was built in 1870 which is now home to the Bayside Historical Society. Cantonment Farm 1812 This private residence is the last standing officers ' barracks built in 1812. Putnam County Court House Carmel 1814 Second oldest courthouse in the United States that remains in use Clarkson Community Church Clarkson, New York 1825 This Protestant church, perhaps the oldest in western Monroe County, was established in 1816 and has operated continuously since that date. The original 1825 Colonial structure, with a 100 ' steeple, has had two subsequent additions ( in 1967 and in 1985 ). Dash home Eden, NY 1816 Has been consistently lived in since 1816. The property backs up to 18 mile creek & has a tributary with 5 waterfalls. There are 200 year old black walnut, apple & mulberry trees also on the property. LaTourette House Staten Island 1836 1836 brick Federal - style building now used as clubhouse for city - owned golf course. Anshe Slonim Synagogue Lower Manhattan 1849 Oldest surviving synagogue building in New York City 203 East 29th Street Kips Bay, Manhattan 1790 / 1870 Private owned house dated back from 1790 or 1870 based on different sources. Listed in National Register of Historic Places Notes Jump up ^ `` Tree - Ring Dating of the... '' ( PDF ). Jump up ^ `` BEVIER HOUSE MUSEUM ''. Ulster County Historical Society. 2015 - 05 - 26. Jump up ^ `` Bryant Library Local History ''. The Bryant Library. Jump up ^ Landmarks Preservation Commission. `` Friends Meeting House. '' August 18, 1970. Vertical files, Queens Borough Public Library. Jump up ^ `` National Register of Historical Places -- NEW YORK ( NY ), Rensselaer County ''. www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com. Retrieved 2017 - 08 - 24. ^ Jump up to : `` A link to Capital Region through 3 centuries ''. Times Union. Retrieved 2017 - 08 - 24. Jump up ^ Staats, W.L. ( 2012 - 10 - 16 ). Three Centuries on the Hudson River : One Family... One Dutch House. William Staats. ISBN 978 - 0 - 578 - 06243 - 3. Jump up ^ `` Oxford Tree - Ring Laboratory - New York ''. www.dendrochronology.com. Retrieved 2018 - 04 - 02. Jump up ^ `` History Beekman Arms & Delamater Inn Rhinebeck New York ''. www.beekmandelamaterinn.com. Retrieved 2018 - 04 - 16. Jump up ^ Cutter, William Richard ; Reynolds, Cuyler ( 1913 ). `` 14 ''. Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley : A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation. ( PDF ) format = requires url = ( help ). 3. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 1112. ISBN 9780806346755. OCLC 423822035. Retrieved 8 March 2018. Jan built house in the lower part of what is now village of Athens a short distance north Black Rock on ground later occupied as shipyard by Matthias Van Loon A from the original house bearing the 1706 JVL gives the name of builder and the date of erection. Jump up ^ http://www.thewesterveltfamily.com/genealogy/021.html Jump up ^ `` Indian Castle Church data pages ''. Historic American Buildings Survey. Library of Congress. 2007 - 11 - 16. Jump up ^ `` Home ''. Wadsworth Homestead. Retrieved 8 March 2018. Jump up ^ Santoro, Lisa M. ( 2017 - 05 - 24 ). `` Touring the historic homes of Staten Island 's Lighthouse Hill ''. Curbed NY. Retrieved 2017 - 06 - 29. 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Question: when was the first building built in new york city
Answer: Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House