How The Dyckman Farmhouse Has Stood For 235 Years While New York City Grew Up Around It
William Dyckman built the Dyckman house in 1785 after his family’s prior home was destroyed in the Revolutionary War — and it still stands as Manhattan’s last farmhouse today. Like this gallery?Share it : Take a stroll down Broadway through upper Manhattan and you ’ll see yourself at the steps of an old farmhouse . The Dyckman Farmhouse is the old seventeenth - century Dutch colonial - style farmhouse in New York City , an enduring remnant of the urban center ’s agricultural past ....