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This would be very interesting to hear. I know The Dakota dates back to the lat 1800's, but my knowledge falls flat after that. I remember a house being really old over in east Brooklyn, though looking at the pictures, it also doesn't look like it's well maintained.
(Not counting buildings that are no longer in use or have been converted to other things like museums)
I tried finding out myself but I didn't really find what I was looking for
Why do you exclude museums when that's exactly what most of the oldest surviving residences in the city have been converted to ? If they hadn't been they probably wouldn't be here anymore.
I think the place with the largest collection of colonial and federal houses is probably Staten Island.
I also know there is a house in Douglaston Queens that dates to the early 1700's…it's the Van Wyck House and still a residence as far as I know. Most of the old Dutch houses remaining in Brooklyn are museums.There are quite a few wood frame houses from the 1800's scattered here and there in upper Manhattan but they are only 150 years old.http://www.6sqft.com/miraculously-un...seeks-tenants/
Does Gracie Mansion qualify under you strict guidelines ? It dates to about 1800 and is a museum but it is also still a residence.
"The Cornelius Van Wyck House is an 18th-century Dutch Colonial home located on the shore of Little Neck Bay in the Douglaston section of Queens in New York City. This house overlooks Little Neck Bay and is well known for both its age and architecture, and especially for its original owners.[2] It was designated as a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The Cornelius Van Wyck House is considered to be the "most impressive architectural remnant of the early Dutch Culture" in New York.[2]"
There are probably a lot of really old house from the early 19th century in Brooklyn that have been totally bastardized and covered with aluminum siding so you would never know.
The Billop House on SI, next to the Conference House which is a museum is still a residence and dates back to around 1680. There are houses in Richmondtown that pre-date that one, but are no longer residences. A lot of old colonial era homes in the Tottenville area have been renovated but are still occupied and date to the Revolutionary Era.
Downtown Manhattan has a few buildings that date back to that era I think but most are long gone by now. The oldest homes in the city are definitely in the outerboros.
There is also the Onderdonk house in Ridgewood and the Bowne house in Flushing that date back to the same time period.
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