The oldest house of New York City - (is older than you think)

[@John_Linn]

The oldest city in America (1565) is St. Augustine Florida, and it has amazing buildings, and restored architecture from that era.

[@thegeminiguy1065]

Yes it's beautiful but not Dutch.

[@alejandroalvarez1544]

Original language of oldest city in United States. Spanish. On September 8, 1565, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés landed on the shore of what is now called Matanzas Bay and began the founding of the Presidio of San Agustin. Later the settlement would be called St. Augustine, Florida.

[@John_Linn]

@@alejandroalvarez1544 Indeed!

[@EllieMae99]

What about the Pueblo Towns of new Mexico?

[@webbkinko5017]

Ya if you dont count the city that pople build and got destroyed that was here before the new world take over ....oldest Europe settled city ...school misinform ppl

[@williamfox5685]

I found this house very interesting as I descend from Jane (Wyckoff) Gulick, my 3rd Great Grandmother who was a direct descendant of Nicholas & Peter Wyckoff who lived here and raised their children. Thanks for the tour. I am almost 75 years old and live in Wichita, Kansas so I can't travel to New York City to see this place in person so I appreciate this video very much.

[@velvetindigonight]

The marvels of modern technology! I'm watching from the UK though I have no family connection just taking time, as we have plenty at present, studying the history of New York, Jamestown et al all thanks to You Tube. Enjoy

[@dougvb2096]

Just a few miles outside of NYC in NJ there is a town called Wyckoff. I do find it very doubtful that no one else named Wyckoff ever immigrated to the US and settled elsewhere.

[@diaan1988]

Gulick is also a Dutch name. It was a domain in the south of the Netherlands, owned by the Duke of Gulick. My husband is a descendant from Gulick. Made in hundreds of years into Gulikers. I love to daydream about how Jane (Wyckoff) Gulick came to America.

[@Ohjeezno]

"...Nicholas & Peter Wyckoff who lived here and raised their children." Wow, this shows what liberal frontrunners the Dutch were back then already ;)

[@holdmyleash2221]

Do their descendants have no claim to the ancestral house?

[@donaldwycoff4154]

I visited the Wyckoff house a few years ago, my ancestral home. It was an odd feeling to touch the hand-hewn surface of a supporting beam cut and installed by my ancestor, hundreds of years ago. Since I am a Wyckoff, I was allowed to see some of the "off tour" bits of the house. I live over 3k miles away, so my feet will probably never touch the ground there again. But I'm glad NY and a lot of wonderful people have maintained my ancestral home so well and for so many years. Hopefully it has many hundreds of years of life remaining so that people can recall a time when Flatbush was more of a farm than a city.

[@jcsgodmother]

I loved my trip to see it.

[@holoholopainen1627]

Great ! This Story IS Better than Many They Make movies of at Holywood ! Real Pioneer History !

[@jedimasterjoe5386]

I’m going to burn it

[@annadavis5388]

So cool for you!

[@budgetking2591]

@@jedimasterjoe5386 lol

[@chadwyckoff2229]

That's my family. Direct line. It's amazing that the house is still standing considering America tended to tear down old structures before developing historic districts or deeming a structure a historic treasure.

[@holoholopainen1627]

Hats Off ! Thanks for Sharing / Sharing IS Caring ! Merci & Danke

[@chadwyckoff2229]

​@Jasy Jam I assume you are making an uneducated assumption that all persons with Dutch ancestry are descendants of slave owners and/or slave traders. How very discriminating of you, not to mention hypocritical. My ancestor(s) did not own slaves nor did they trade them. I never said I was “proud” of anything in my comment from 2 years ago, but I am quite proud of many of the accomplishments and strides my family has made over the past 383 years. If this offends you, I can honestly say that I am not in the least bit concerned. If my ancestor(s) had owned or traded slaves that would be very disappointing, but the past cannot be changed. We can only learn from it and try to do better. My ancestors were indentured servants and farmers. The past cannot be changed, nor does it define who we are as individuals today. It seems that you have some concerning issues that need to be addressed professionally if you feel the need to troll around on KZbin making ignorant and uninformed accusations against people you are not acquainted with.

[@chadwyckoff2229]

@Jasy Jam Oh my god, HAHAHAHA!

[@TVeldhorst]

@Jasy Jam Every person on this planet has ancestors, lots of them. Probably lots of those have done some horrible stuff. Including yours and mine. Why would anyone be ashamed of that? The sins of your forefathers are not yours. Don't be a dick in this life and don't do what they did.

[@BeezerWashingbeard]

Jasy, you must be intellectually challenged. We're all decendants of murderers, cavemen, slave traders, rapists and warriors. That's the history of humanity. There's nothing wrong with being proud of or interested in your family's history. Especially if your family is as illustrious as the Wyckoff's.

[@WampsPlace]

My 10th Grandparents owned the house. I understand there are over ten thousand descendants of Peter Wyckoff.

[@robertcuminale1212]

How does Couwenhoven become Conover? Or Du Sauchoy become Dissoway? The English couldn't pronounce or spell many of the names. Gravesend was spelled differently and meant "end of the grove" Midwood was midwout. The Beaver house mentioned was built by the Bevier family. Brokaw used to be Brouchard. They couldn't pronounce the Dutch "G". The name Goes sounded more closely to "hoose". Today it is Hoes as in hose. They made the "v", "f" and "w" sound too much alike and that caused more misspellings.

[@craigthecat4202]

I'm sending you this reply just so I can link myself in some way to that room, where all the sex took place.

[@RootedHat]

hello inbreeding

[@ers1472]

Steven Wampler what does 10th grandparents even mean ?

[@klmullins65]

miss kiwigirl it means that Mr Wykof was her great - great -great - great - great -great - great - great - great -great grandfather...12 generations back!

[@lesahanners5057]

My husband is a 9th grt. grandson of Pieter Clausen Wycoff, through his daughter Annetje Wyckoff. Thanks so much for this video.

[@angelinaduganNy]

In upstate New York there are plenty of old Dutch houses from the 1600's.

[@notsosilentmajority1]

That is absolutely true................

[@baswiltink9522]

Is that so=P? Haha amazing:-

[@welegends2111]

It's the oldest house in NYC not Ny

[@lephilosopheinconnu3952]

can you tell me how do I get there ? I'm in South America now

[@nestanesta9366]

@@lephilosopheinconnu3952 go north then take a right at alburquerkie.

[@Borneoart]

I saw a cat in this video. That reminds me of a BBC radio program years ago, in which was mentioned that scientist have found out that the DNA of cats in New York have more similarities with the DNA of cats in Holland than with the DNA of cats in the rest of the U.S. Interesting to know. : )

[@01ruudjemulder]

Very interesting. Zeer interessant.

[@velvetindigonight]

Bonkers stuff we remember!

[@justme8837]

I think the US for many years didn't care or want anything old. I love that other countries keep using their old buildings, preserving them and incorporating them into their daily lives. Here in the US it was always newer "better" instead of classic and historical. I do not care for new buildings, they look cold and are way too big. We need to appreciate and cherish the past by caring for these beautiful buildings and try to preserve as many as possible.

[@dylnchvn5637]

Celita Guia Whittington so in the next 300-500 years would our present skyscrapers and buildings be considered historic and kept in good shape?

[@justme8837]

I guess it is all relative. To me, living now, these buildings are ugly and not worth saving but who knows how the future will see them. Good point.

[@josephang9927]

America is too big. There is so much space for new buildings, that the old ones get forgotten.

[@rosestewart1606]

it's the same in a lot of Canada. The city where I was born was founded in 1749 and in the past 50 years almost everything from that time was destroyed...and it's still happening. I think this is why there is a push to have some towns declared world heritage sites so that the government and their friends the developers have to leave some areas alone. Destroying these buildings because of increasing real estate values only benefits a few.

[@dapsapsrp]

America expanded at a very rapid pace, thanks in part to industrial technology that was not around in other parts of the world during growth period. That rapid pace coupled with a huge influx of immigrants did not allow for much preservation. I live near the Cahokia Mounds world heritage site which far predates European settlements. In the 1800's people just removed the giant mounds for the top soil and to make room for roads and towns.

[@Akibatai00]

I was an intern there in 2006. Worked in the "archive" up in the attic, transcribing the Wyckoff family letters.

[@holoholopainen1627]

How was IT ? Any Good ?

[@pattiwhite9575]

Now that would make a wonderful video

[@Akibatai00]

@@holoholopainen1627 Very interesting letters and documents.

[@holoholopainen1627]

@@Akibatai00 Nice ! Thanks ! Were Those Letters in Dutch language ?

[@Akibatai00]

@@holoholopainen1627 haha, I wish. No, they were written in English.

[@LeahLeah222]

I passed by this house on my way to and from school twice a day, every day for many years and never knew what it was.

[@GFSLombardo]

I went to Nazareth HS in Brooklyn "back in the day" .. Nothing much about the old farmhouse has changed.

[@holoholopainen1627]

Nobody told You ? Isnt KZbin Great ?

[@transray1756]

To specify, the house is located in Canarsie, Brooklyn. A road named Canarsie road was built right in front of the house and it dates to 1666. when the Brooklyn was realigned it cut off the house from what was still part of Canarsie by about 2 blocks and when Flatbush was extended. The house now is considered being in East Flatbush but its origins are in Canarsie.

[@talljohn5350]

its right on the boarder. i don't think many people would argue one way or the other

[@5674inCincy]

Thx, it's location is what I wanted to know!

[@jcsgodmother]

It was the Canarsie Indian trail.

[@holoholopainen1627]

McDonalds IS a Good Landmark / a House Hold name in America / just in case !

[@swaggertt3106]

im from Canarsie born and raised Woo shit u heard home of da Woos fuck those building im from where the karst house in New York was built

[@infxctxd3999]

3:58 youve never heard of an alligator/crocodile?

[@TheLukasDirector]

California Based And you've clearly never seen one.

[@JipSlinger]

California Based yes. thats absolutely not an alligator or crocodile, it doesnt even look like one

[@bl7355]

Its could well be a Commodo Dragon. Seems plausible as its a Dutch map and the Dutch dominated Indonesia at the time.

[@slimpickens8343]

It 100% is. Do you think the lion looks close to a lion?

[@zerostress5349]

@Ben Dover but he has seen dragons? 🤔🤔🤔

[@prestongilbert4199]

From 1965 to 1969 I walked on Ralph Avenue past the Wycoff House each morning and afternoon as I went to and from Tilden High School to my home. At the time it was a forgotten old structure that looked like the Dutch houses I studied in my 5th grade NYC history class. Nobody talked about it or made anything of it but I suspected it was special. When I was pursuing my Landscape Architecture degree in College I used it as an independent study project for a cultural landscape preservation design studio I took. It made me really happy years later to find out that it got the recognition and protection it deserved.

[@oldcougar65]

I lived in a house in PA built in 1686. It had 21 inch thick walls, 3 basements, 6 fire places and a carriage house.

[@michaeljamisontigers]

1652 was also the year Jan van Riebeeck came to shore in South Africa and build a small fort that was replaced with the Kasteel die goeie Hoop , that is where We get our Language of Afrikaans from .

[@johncerutti3940]

michael jamison hey michael, see you saw this video too

[@ninja1676]

michael jamison Its insane that this house is about 9 generations ago meaning that this is 6 greats.

[@lucasrem]

michael jamison You are right, same with Nassau, all over the world.... Africa too! English Empire became to dominant...

[@01ruudjemulder]

"Kaap de goede hoop" The Dutch traveled by ship to and from East and West Indië and did use that as an intermediate station for foraging (fresh food and water) back to or from Amsterdam The Netherlands.

[@Vigilante-3-1]

I visited Fort of Good Hope and I was disappointed.

[@rlwieneke]

I've been living in the same area for 36 years and so many nice old buildings have been torn down to build "new" buildings.So few people appreciate renovating old arcitecture.

[@slecht]

Most really old buildings in city's in the Netherlands are protected so those city's in the oldest regions keep their look from back of that day, to this day. My city (Kampen), the main center still looks like it did back in lets say 1600-1700 (in average).

[@holoholopainen1627]

Look like an Nice Neigbourhood - McDonalds and Everything - You need to spend a Visitors Day !

[@kc2094]

@@holoholopainen1627 It's actually in a kind of... just okay area. Like not some dangerous horrible place, but it's definitely not one of the nicer neighborhoods in the area

[@kfl611]

torn down to build a McDonalds

[@colleen523]

“Cherish what you have, even if it’s just a few beams”. AGREED 💕

[@badguy1481]

I once lived on Ramapo Valley Road, in New Jersey, just West of New York City. This road, so I was told, was the first to span from the Southern colonies up to Boston. Just a few miles up the road, just south of the New Jersey, New York, border were several Dutch colonial homes from the 1730's. Just a few miles further, in New York state, was the now legendary Dutch settlement referred to in the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

[@debraflorez2265]

So lovely to watch. My husband is an Architect and we live in the Historic Seaport District in a landmark building dated 1812-1820. We have pre industrial wood beams and tilted floors we just ADORE! We love being a part of old NY. Thank you for sharing.

[@dampfoxes]

The oldest building in New Zealand is from the 1820s. Being obsessed with architectural history when you live in a country that had no permanent structures until the 19th century is a little infuriating actually. I see many Europeans in the comments saying a 17th century house is nothing compared to their medieval structures that are still in use! Appreciate your castles yo!

[@holoholopainen1627]

Where excatly ? Did They Land at Coromandel / or Where ? Sorry My History IS Limited - that comes to Wellington era !

[@XxowendanxX]

yeah, in use by muslims

[@freedomlover7783]

This is where tact comes in place. I have a Brit friend and she thought the same way about the age of their buildings. I pointed out to her that the homes in New England were built the same way the homes were built in 1600's in England. These early settlers did not want to leave England but they were forced to as the Church of England kept killing ministers and burning them alive at the stake, that refused to follow the church dogma. I reminded her that the settlers in New England would name their towns after their towns in England unless Indian names were used. For example: Hartford, Guilford, Wallingford, Boston, Coventry, (New) London. They deeply loved their country, England. Aside from that, I remember the first time I went to England. The country side was exactly like New England. It made me feel as if I was coming home. I do not think that GOD would have put these naive settlers in, say, Wyoming with it's geysers and bubbling over hot pots. They would have thought they were in the opposite place of heaven.

[@kateywyckoff3250]

omg that my great great great grandmas house

[@01ruudjemulder]

I have been there 2 years ago and there was no tour but the very friendly people there showed us despite the complete building. The Wyckoff House is NOT the only one !! One of the oldest Dutch buildings in NYC is also "The Voorlezerhouse" on Staten Island, on it's original location.(constructed ca. 1769) To see in the Historic Richmond Town open air museum. Built by the Dutch Church as a place of worship, as a school, and as a home for the Voorlezer, who was a lay reader and/or educator. The furnishing is stil original. An other one is:The Dyckman House, now the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, is the oldest remaining farmhouse on Manhattan island, a reminder of New York City's rural past. The Dutch Colonial-style farmhouse was built by William Dyckman, ca.1785. Located: 4881 Broadway, Inwood, Manhattan, New York. And not to forget The Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church with semetery founded in 1651 by Dutch Colonists. Brooklyn 890 Flatbush Avenue. NYC Fan Ruud Mulder The Netherlands

[@stuartjsmith3927]

I am one of millions descendants of Cornelius Wyckoff, and have yet to visit this house. I was aware of it in the 1970s before the 'restoration'.

[@jcsgodmother]

go see it.

[@holoholopainen1627]

Great ! This sounds too GOOD !

[@StrictlyMotionz]

I visited that house yesterday with my afterschool program

[@chocolatetampon4492]

Shå PesøsTM here's your cookie

[@chocolatetampon4492]

Schultz I knew you'd be needing it after so long diabeto

[@nestanesta9366]

@Google Account a year later and l'm sure you're still a dick.

[@StrictlyMotionz]

Q5x75x00 smd

[@mytube9080]

The Dutch bring your Ancestral to American 😂

[@Germanic-Wellness]

Very interesting. I wish there was more history about the WIC. Recently I found out that my surname goes back to the 17th-century merchant trader and WIC director Samuel Blommaert. He was born in Antwerp (personally, I grew up in Zeeland; 40 min driving from Antwerp), moved to London with his dad (where I currently live), and he established various Atlantic sailing routes. Right after I came out of high school I wanna join the Dutch Marine Corps which has been established in the 17th century by Michiel de Ruyter from Vlissingen/Flushing. Instead, I followed a career in the shipping industry as that just "made more sense." I worked for a Dutch shipping company for a while. Nowadays the Dutch Marine Corps is based on the Antilles. Samuel lived on Bonaire as well. This is where I wanna go when I came out of high school. Relationship wise; I always felt I had a connection with someone who lived far away from my home country. At age 23 I travelled all the way to Peru to find that special love connection. A few years later she came into my life. In 2014 while I was in London I struggled with personal challenges regarding deep feelings of shame and guilt right after a business of mine collapsed. Because of that, I went to see a spiritual healer for a past life regression. She actually saw an image of a merchant trader in the 17th century. Makes you wonder, eh...

[@Knards]

I am a descendant of the Wyckoff family. Pieter Claesen Wyckoff is my 9th great-grandfather

[@spiffierthehunter7247]

thats cool but i am skeptical. there is always someone.... thats my house or my dad did that n so on :P :)

[@Knards]

Could be. Do you have a family tree on ancestry.com? Get a DNA test done there and it will tell us.

[@Jan-vc1qg]

I Think it is related to Wijk bij duurstede. Before it had the name Dorestad.

[@leloodallasmultipass]

I know some actual Wycoffs. Not the watered-down, "on-my-mother's-side" fractionals, mind you.

[@madmoiselle007]

MrMrwilson11 😎cool

[@johnholman125]

Locating and conducting privy digs on the property would shed a lot of light on the subject of the age of the home.

[@scottkuhn4026]

I used to live down the street from this house in Brooklyn. In the 70s it looked horrible. Very small place.

[@ooicur412]

The part: "this cat "meow" agrees" cracked me up, even the cat has an opinion. Great video.

[@33lex55]

That cat might still have a lot of Amsterdam cat genes, so, yeah, it might have an opinion...

[@jamesmcinnis208]

In New York, EVERYBODY has an opinion about EVERYTHING.

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

Cats have "facts". Dogs have "opinions". Lol.

[@rjwalker6677]

Being from Minnesota it's amazing to me how old some buildings are in New York (and of course Europe). The oldest building in Minnesota (not including Fort Snelling) dates only to the 1840's or 1850's I think. And there aren't many surviving before 1880. We just didn't have much of a population in 1850, but New York did.

[@Dalt21]

You wouldn’t think, but there’s a lot of amazing old homes in NJ also!

[@brunodejong1695]

I am Dutch and I am suprised there is a house preserved. Very cool! Groetjes!

[@HeatherSpoonheim]

I have worked a lot in Old Québec - and dating structures there is a nightmare. I worked in one place that had 17th century, basket roofed, rock 'catacombs' on the lowest level...more round rock, low tech mortar (3 to 5 foot thick wall) rooms on the next level (guessing 18th century) and then brick work (19th century) for a couple levels, all extended by steel beams (yes, 20th century on top of 17th century foundation) high-rise above. You just can't put a date on the structure as a whole - you have to date each facet of it. For the most part, attics and upper floors are the newest in old Québec, and foundations are the oldest.

[@jgc4818]

Heather Spoonheim Quebec is incredible because it’s just about the only city north of Mexico to have a large amount of city buildings surviving from that period. Boston only has one urban house built before 1700, New York has none, Philadelphia, None.

[@SIG442]

Some interesting locations within New York to look at: - In Gerritsen Creek/Mill Creek there is a fairly big island, No idea what the name of it is. But I noticed on the north-west side of the island some very straight lines that may have been a building of some kind. (40.597540, -73.919750) -

[@wolfyk95]

The white lines are erosion control. That's white island nature preserve. The empty grey spots near your exact coordinates look like prior burnt land.

[@01ruudjemulder]

Gerritsen is a dutch familiename. Comes from: The son of Gerrit (first name) Like Peterson, Gerritson "zoon" became lateron "sen". In Sweden called son.

[@ascenbach1]

The oldest section of the Bowne House in Flushing was built in 1661 while the Dutch still controlled New Netherlands. Neither the Wykoff House nor the Bowne House were in New Amsterdam. It was not until 1898 that Brooklyn and Queens became part of New York City,

[@jcsgodmother]

The Van Dyck House is in Manhattan. Then there is the van Cortland House.

[@jamesmcinnis208]

Dyckman house on Broadway.

[@Hairy.Whodini]

The Brown Dickman's House at Fuggedaboutit, NY.

[@alan4657]

another awesome, promising channel forgotten about and never to be uploaded and enjoyed again. RIP New Netherland Now. Thank you for the 28 minutes of solid programming and information.

[@falcoperegrinus82]

The way she gravitates toward and looks at that curator guy... 😍🥰

[@chrisjones3901]

What a beutiful history to find out stuff we dont normally see in our lives,what passion you have and great ability to convey this history,saw the picture on utube and randomly clickèd glad i did thankyou

[@jakebarnes28]

The slight flare in the roof's edge, often called a "kick" or "Dutch kick" is what tells you its early Dutch. Neat stuff.

[@windstorm1000]

I didn't know that

[@joyciejd9673]

I love how you connected the dots between Amsterdam and the New Amsterdam Wyckoff House. Thank you

[@tedmiles2110]

The Dutch influence did not simply disappear when the city became New York. I have been in the house at the Colonial Farm Museum in Queens, built about 1760. It has a Dutch style roof and a cabinet style bed inside. Great fun! Another old house in Queens is the Bowne House, circa 1661, home to nine generations of the same family.

[@michaelciccone2194]

The Quaker Meeting House in Flushing Queens NY built in 1690s just amazing! A must see! Fantastic !

[@BenPlays482]

the tour guide looks like he's selling high end real estate

[@ernestschultz5065]

The oldest house in New York City is The Bowne house in Flushing Queens. Reliably documented to 1664

[@peterdevalk7929]

Also of Dutch origin. Btw, Flushing comes from Dutch town "Vlissingen" in the province Zeeland.

[@candyluna2929]

I am from NYC!! I LOVE IT'S HISTORY!!!

[@jamesmcinnis208]

It is?

[@rmneilson]

I feel a strong connection to Amsterdam and New York City. I've lived there over lifetimes; it's in my bones and my soul x

[@therealberlinsylvie]

(Cue ominous music)

[@RawOlympia]

thnx so much, we lived next to an old one in Inwood, Dykman House, splendid really that these marvels are still here ~ want to go back now!

[@jamesmcinnis208]

Dyckman

[@robbdenyse4437]

My ancestor, Teunis Nyssen, came to what is now Brooklyn in the 1660s. I research Dutch ancestry in NYC and I didn't even know about Wyckoff House!! Thank you for this video ❤

[@RedbadvanRijn-ft3vv]

De Nyse,is now de Nijs i gues.

[@saltythepirate9768]

2:06 when he said we are being guided by Joshua I thought he meant the cat for a second😂

[@Actanonverba01]

Interesting part of NYC and American history, also a great little video, 👍

[@edwardrclrcl4487]

u mean.. USA History

[@stepheng623]

Americans have a tendency to totally mispronounce non English names, I'm from Ireland and some of the way people from the US prenounce Irish surnames is way off the proper pronunciation. Mahoney and Shaughnessy being two of the worst.

[@james5460]

Good decision to bring her along. Goooooooood decision.

[@leftpastsaturn67]

^^ triggered

[@StevenTorrey]

I thought the same thing, A real cute butt..

[@tanyadebeer4836]

@Jenn Hughes That sounds bitter. Do gorgeous blondes make you feel inferior? You, maybe, should talk to a therapist about this.

[@MrAWESOMECUPCAKES]

Yeah that dude in the videos was eyeing her

[@MrAWESOMECUPCAKES]

Xcuze i hope so! I catch for the same team

[@topherv4229]

Pieter Claessen Wyckoff is one of my 9th Great Grandfathers. Fascinating to see this video and anxious to return to New York to see it in person!

[@AdrianInniss]

WTH, this is a few corners from me and I had absolutely no idea

[@jcsgodmother]

go tour it.

[@DWilliam1]

Lived in a village called GrandView on Hudson for 20 years until I sold my house (1894 Arts and Crafts bungalow). We had a couple of old Dutch houses on the road I lived on including the Onderdonk house in Piermont which was built in 1737.

[@LLLLLLLLLucas]

Supposedly quite old for an american building. Hard to get my head round New York's oldest building being so young...

[@corkcamden9878]

Yep. It's sad how our forebears forgot to preserve most of our past but more informed minds have started to realize that all is not lost. We can hope.

[@roberts1677]

I live in Carson City, NV. The oldest house here (now a museum) was built in 1860.

[@shaunsteele6926]

the United States is only 240 years old, and Europeans have only been living on this continent for about 430 years

[@lookoutforchris]

AkuExtraThicc it's the oldest democratic republic though. And a lot of countries in Europe are much younger than America. Germany and Italy for instance weren't unified nations until the later 1800s. Of course the cultures were older, but the countries were new.

[@gregb6469]

Shi, the natives of what is now the eastern part of the U.S. did not build permanent buildings, so we should not expect any of them to still be here.

[@johnnyzeee5215]

Yes, the Wyckhoff house. Near the Brooklyn Terminal Market, Avenue D, Ditmars , and Clarendon. Built 1652.

[@erikcederb]

It is kind of funny to watch this when they talk about how old the building is as a swede, since most buildings in the "old town" of Stockholm is older than that house and still in use :-) The oldest wooden building in Sweden still standing is built around year 1220: sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granhults_kyrka And the oldest stone buildings still standing are about 1000 years old now: sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fors_kyrka,_Eskilstuna

[@jessezandstra1]

+Erik Cederberg Yeah, but of course this house was made out of wood and pretty simple in it's layout of course. I'm living in Nijmegen which is presumably the oldest town in the Netherlands as it was founded as a military camp by the Romans. There have been findings of roman settlements, but the oldest building still standing is a brick roman chapel from around the 9th or 10th century. It was part of a castle built by Charlemange but almost all of the original castle was burned down centuries ago. Another sad fact is that more than of the old town was flatened to the ground during world war II by bomber planes. Really sad...

[@NewNetherlandNow]

+Erik Cederberg Hi Erik. I've thought about that too. But if you just compare it to all of human history - the difference really isn't that big. I find a 400 year old house pretty old! :)

[@LLLLLLLLLucas]

Same here in the UK, so many towns Cities and villages here with countless buildings that are without question or doubt the same age or much much older than this little wooden house. But then it isnt called "the new world" for nothing

[@calebtomalin4993]

There's a church in my town that's between 900 - 800 years old and it's used everyday.

[@xxmfanforlifexx9758]

Erik Cederberg American cities are in general much younger than all European Cities and Stockholm is pretty young compared with other European cities Rome or Athens are the oldest

[@BrooklynNYguy]

I went to HS , Nazareth Regional Catholic HS ,in East Flatbush , Brooklyn a few blocks away from the Wycoff House. I used to wait for the bus on Ralph Ave, about a 100' in front of it. Back then in the mid to late 70's, it was just a curiosity with a plaque in front of it. There were no tours and almost no interest in the place until a few years after I graduated. I was really happy that there was a movement to restore the house and make it into a museum. It's definitely a real asset to the borough of Brooklyn, as it is a great connection to its historic past.

[@michaelmccann3546]

Was dendrochronology ever done to determine when the house was possibly built?

[@jamesmcinnis208]

I think the house was definitely built.

[@kfl611]

Very good question.

[@tylerdies413]

There is a town next to mine named Wyckoff I’m not far from the city so this is a cool video and now I know why it’s named that

[@holoholopainen1627]

What IS The closest Subway Station ?

[@del69blue]

Great video; really interesting subject.

[@encyclopediapierciana6815]

Wonderful info here about the ancient history of New York!

[@NostalgiCrazy]

Interesting but kinda sad? Btw the tour guy is looking mightyyy handsome ;)

[@NostalgiCrazy]

+Rob Shaw - What lol

[@NostalgiCrazy]

Lol well she better get in line ;D

[@misspuppa]

Matacabrones he gay

[@writerconsidered]

Her gaydar went offline.

[@NostalgiCrazy]

misspuppa - Perfect!

[@antonycanova52]

Just heard about this, and it immediately goes to the top of my "to do" list. Thanks!

[@Terradiva]

Loved this!!! Our history is MUCH MORE than the conveniently narrow propaganda we’ve been taught.

[@freedomlover7783]

One of my ancestors was Wyckoff and may have lived here as my many other Dutch ancestors also lived here. Now, Niew Amsterdam provided many beaver pellets to the Netherlands. This was such a prosperous trade with the Indians that the Dutch put a beaver on their coat of arms. The Dutch are such an industrious group that the life style cannot be imagined by us today. Remember, this was the new world and one description was of oysters a foot across. We all know how small oysters are today or around three or four inches across. It is time to give the Dutch settlers credit for their wonderful history.

[@01ruudjemulder]

The Wyckoff House is NOT the only one !! One of the oldest Dutch buildings in NYC is also "The Voorlezerhouse" on Staten Island, on it's original location.(constructed ca. 1769) To see in the Historic Richmond Town open air museum. Built by the Dutch Church as a place of worship, as a school, and as a home for the Voorlezer, who was a lay reader and/or educator. The furnishing is stil original. NYC fan Ruud Mulder The Netherlands. An other one is:The Dyckman House, now the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, is the oldest remaining farmhouse on Manhattan island, a reminder of New York City's rural past. The Dutch Colonial-style farmhouse was built by William Dyckman, ca.1785. Located: 4881 Broadway, Inwood, Manhattan, New York.

[@tallthinkev]

The US is still a very young country, from where I sit I can see a building that is over 600 years older than that house.

Is it the Clampett's place in the Ozarks?

[@ricinro]

I grew up in West Islip about 20 miles to the east of this house. During the early seventies there was a dilapidated saltbox house that was rumored to be very old but at the time there was an ambitious developer and the place ceased to exist. Luck or rare foresight preserves the past and it is a blessing that this house is cared for.

[@tombrady8873]

That girl is all over that guy she doesn't take her eyes off him

[@DS-ll5fn]

I thought that too! She looks starved ....😁

[@cindyreynolds4045]

Mtbker uhhh thanks for letting us know that!🙄

[@Simonsvids]

@C caymer Bugger off leave our European women alone your ancestors emigrated and abandoned us saying fuck off to all their relatives and parents like they didn't give a shit if they ever saw them again so make do with what you have got in your barren, bland and monotonous country.

[@Simonsvids]

@C caymer No the immigrants were youngsters who bought into the new "fad" of puritanism. Their parents were regular protestants or less likely catholics. Sure they took their little kids with them, if they had any, but as for their parents and siblings/cousins it was ta ta goodbye. The oppression is a myth. Only the nutcase few were oppressed for good reason. These nutcase puritans stripped our churches of all murals and decorations. Come and see the difference between UK old churches and mainland European ones if you dont believe me. They even tried to ban Christmas FFS!

[@NickRoman]

I misunderstood. I thought she was his wife. lol

[@LTDan-hu5fq]

She wanted a lot more then just a tour of an old house from the tall blond dude, wow!

[@walkingtrails7776]

The houses being built nowadays will never last this long ... if they are standing 20 years from now I'd be surprised.

[@reallyhappenings5597]

Little of anything ever endures. But some of ours will.

[@ToxicCatt-y7c]

Probably cause the houses we have now and days are shoe boxes with windows.

[@puddin6010]

I live about ten blocks away and a friend and myself did a tour of house around 1991. That small addition are slaves quarters. At that time there was some arguments as to the oldest of this house or the Leffers? House in Prospect Park. It’s wonderful how these societies are digging and preserving all these historical sites in Brooklyn NY. As a child I grew up across the street and ran thru “Weeksville”, the settlement of free Blacks in Brooklyn NY wow

[@johnwinterbottom1072]

This guy isn't from NYC it is pronounced; "WHYcoff" not wickoff.

[@drottercat]

Of course not. He s a smart Dutchman with near perfect English and an ever so slight and cute accent.

[@AugustinTomasOBrienCaceres]

@@drottercat he's talking about the American guy

[@chrisclark1761]

Love the Dutch accent. Also, great to hear the Dutch side of American history. We all too often hear the British side and being from Dublin, I am overwhelmed with the Irish angle.

[@highlandersh44]

there's one just about as old in Brooklyn on 34th and Flatbush

[@joelombrdo]

Great video. Thanks for posting.

[@nickjbland]

3:59 It's a crocodile

[@13jacksonpa]

Nick Bland Its an alligator

[@leloodallasmultipass]

cayman

[@holoholopainen1627]

IS an Jack Russell ! Evolution / The Way to Go !

[@dianee7778]

They should move the house and give it the property it deserves. It’s such a shame to be next to a junk yard and a McDonalds!

[@charlesbuyrn2097]

In all of the Americas, I think the Spanish missions would be the oldest things

[@mundano]

Ammm... What about the thousands of prehispanic constructions like the city of Teotihuacan in Mexico or Machu Picchu in Perú?

[@herbsgotaZX]

Of european colonization***

[@lucasrem]

Charles buyrn Vikings travels are way older them the middle east Godly missions.... Arab Spanish missions, Jesus Gods? all later!

[@lucasrem]

@@mundano maya empire is not that old!

[@mundano]

@@lucasrem It is older than any Spanish missions. History 101.

[@braddywarbucks]

That girl wants some of that tour guide but I am not sure he is batting for her team.

[@beantowner76]

The oldest house that is still standing in the U.S., outside of the old Pueblo buildings in New Mexico, is the Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts. It dates back to 1637 and is the oldest timber framed home in the country.

[@holoholopainen1627]

IS That Close to PLYMOUTH Mass ?

[@Hudpix16]

St Augustine monastery in Florida, built by the Spanish in the 16th century is the US oldest European building.

[@holoholopainen1627]

@@Hudpix16 Did You know that Vikings found Canada - Way before - The Spanish or Catalonian ? At New FINLAND - Nova SCOTIA !

[@Hudpix16]

Holo Holopainen so what, their discovery meant nothing, they didn't even realise they were in a new continent. They just happened to drift too far and they thought they were still in Scandinavia. When Columbus discovered America it meant the beginning of modern colonisation and European world domination, changing history forever. Without Columbus there is no Canada o United States, It doesn't matter that some Vikings wandered there a few hundred years earlier.

[@holoholopainen1627]

@@Hudpix16 The Viking didn't colonize - That IS The Difference ! Do You Think that Bringing - The KINGS RULE - was a Positive - Part of Americas HISTORY ! Even USA IS A REPUBLIC TODAY !

[@chrisbayridge23]

I grew up near that house it was in terrible disrepair for so many years before they started restoring it I am very surprised it never was vandalized over all those years

[@Galfonz]

Are these older than the Spanish missions in California and other parts of the southwestern US?

[@mazzyvictor]

The Spaniards had structures already erected in Florida in the 1560's and in Cuba and Puerto Rico in the 1490's. P.S The Netherlands were under Spanish rule until they got kicked out in 1648 but kept a hold onto the Spanish Netherlands (Belgium today) for a while longer.

[@sacluvsBM]

Galfonz no they are not.

[@holoholopainen1627]

Vikings were to Canada before this ! But Nobody was Home !

[@jelle2410]

When will you start making more of these videos? I'd really like to know more about what the dutch did in the US!

[@holoholopainen1627]

They went Ducth ! Have You ever heard about The Pennsylvania Dutch ? Great History There !

[@queencooljewel2433]

I went inside that house in real life before

[@therealberlinsylvie]

Yuh, real life ain’t what it used to be. 😆

[@mikejones741]

Why are they shocked that 13 people lived in that room in the 1600s.

[@3506Dodge]

New York is extremely "lucky" It's the most important city on earth!

[@bobdole877]

Haha you wish

[@dequaviousmartin2657]

Typical American with an inflated ego

[@bobdole877]

@@dequaviousmartin2657 lmao

[@01ruudjemulder]

Keep dreaming.

[@bldyvalentine5001]

@@dequaviousmartin2657 it actually is...its home to the UN and its also the world trading center...

[@RRaquello]

The Stillwell-Prrine House on Staten Island is about a 10 minute walk from where I live. It's listed as the fifth oldest house in NYC, built around 1665. Unlike this house, I don't think there's much doubt about its age. In the town I grew up in, Great Kills, there was the ruins of another old Dutch farm house, basically the foundation stones. Don't know how old that was but could have dated back to the 1600's. We kids used to play around there, but it was wiped away when they built a street through the property.

[@stevens5541]

I've got socks older thank America's history.

[@johnshea7964]

ste ven probably lol but I love that America is new because of how young the nations history is

[@holoholopainen1627]

Do You ever Have / thought of Your Private Museum ! IT IS Easy / to get Visitors of Net Era Kids !

[@jamesmcinnis208]

You're welcome?

[@renatacantoregross6283]

Thank you for this cool piece of Brooklyn history.

[@01ruudjemulder]

The Wyckoff House is NOT the only one !! One of the oldest Dutch buildings in NYC is also "The Voorlezerhouse" on Staten Island, on it's original location.(constructed ca. 1769) To see in the Historic Richmond Town open air museum. Built by the Dutch Church as a place of worship, as a school, and as a home for the Voorlezer, who was a lay reader and/or educator. The furnishing is stil original. NYC fan Ruud Mulder The Netherlands. An other one is:The Dyckman House, now the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, is the oldest remaining farmhouse on Manhattan island, a reminder of New York City's rural past. The Dutch Colonial-style farmhouse was built by William Dyckman, ca.1785. Located: 4881 Broadway, Inwood, Manhattan, New York.

[@aeeileen5997]

Lose the music. Wtf.

[@oncearoundthemapleleaf9041]

Wow this house was built the same year as my family arrived in New Amsterdam. Very cool.

[@steves4639]

That girl totally wanted that blond boy

[@lordmonty9421]

Nah, he's obviously gay.

[@jixuscrixus1967]

Yep, she’s gagging for it.

[@lordmonty9421]

@ Well go get him, Tiger! ...but while you're there? Maybe have him invite Miss Hot Pants from the video over for Cosmopolitans and "juicy historical gossip" or whatever, and when she's a couple of drinks in, I will then swing by to drop off some irresistible 18th century artifact that I'll say I'd borrowed from Blondie. "Martha Washington's washboard" or something. I'll put a Sotheby's sticker on there to make it look legit. I'm offered a drink...she gets topped up...and by the time I've downed it, you and Blondie can start ignoring me and Hot Pants altogether! This will my opportunity to be all, "...what do you say we leave them alone and take a walk? Beautiful night?" And then she'd be all, "Tee-hee! Okay!"

[@jasminelosolla.___.799]

Lol yeah

[@parson7260]

She def wanted the D.

[@Delusional176]

Cool Video. Pieter Wyckoff is my 10th Great Grandfather.

[@jcsgodmother]

you should visit the house. I had a best friend in high school named Wyckoff.

[@Delusional176]

@@jcsgodmother It's definitely on my list of things to do if I ever make it to the east coast. Pieter Wyckoff has so many descendants.

[@holoholopainen1627]

@@jcsgodmother Which High was that ?

[@potugadu5160]

Either the size of personal space is small with the Dutch or that lady has hearing problems or she really liked that guy -she frequently stood very close to that guy, even made a mild sexual comment ("making those children...").

[@idubbzz7790]

smfh

[@mickeydew1896]

potugadu, I guess you've never experienced Dutch bluntness or directness. Sexual Innuendo is likely without the romantic fizzles but eventually understood loud and clear

[@TheBatugan77]

@Ben Dover Agree. The Orient is like that too. Tokyo...HongKong...Manila. You want privacy? Close your eyes.

[@freedomlover7783]

The female was a jerk and should have had the sense to put her claws in the guy after the video was turned off.

[@calwianka]

Hey I am from New York. We had a Van Bergen in our school. Fun video. I know you were joking about not knowing what sort of lizard that was on the map. Everyone knows it was a chameleon.

[@fyte4luv23]

so that's where the word "wackoff" came from.

[@rogerelzenga4465]

She's waaay too thirsty .... the way she looks at the dude ....

[@rafaelzengo5534]

Ye, too bad for her that he seems to like the same thing she does

[@garlandstrife]

Impossible to hide.

[@Ukeepthelies8471]

I am descended from an old Dutch family, the Stoutenburg's. An early Dutch family, who came to New Amsterdam, (NYC) Dutch Colony, in the 1600s. They lived in NYC near Wall Street, I believe. Then, they moved to Tarrytown, NY., near Sleepy Hollow. They were the first family to settle Hyde Park, NY.

[@Eternal56]

Not really New York City. When this house was built it was part of Brooklyn which was it's own independent city up until 1898. NEW Amsterdam or new York City was just the island of Manhattan. So technically it's the oldest house in Brooklyn.

[@TheBatugan77]

It's NYC NOW, Rudolph! Now, sit down. And don't open your mouth again.

[@jgc4818]

True, the oldest house in Manhattan was only built in 1719 and it hardly looks Dutch. There are many houses similar to this, especially on Staten Island, built in the [16]60’s - 70’s that survives the onslaught of urban sprawl