Van Cortlandt House Museum
- Not to be confused with Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-on-Hudson, Westchester County.
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| Location | Van Cortlandt Park, The Bronx, New York City, NY |
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| Built | 1748 |
| Architect | Frederick Van Cortlandt |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| NRHP Reference # | 67000010 |
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| Added to NRHP | December 24, 1967[1] |
| Designated NHL | December 24, 1976[2] |
The Van Cortlandt House Museum, also known as Frederick Van Cortlandt House or Van Cortlandt House, is the oldest building in The Bronx, New York City. The house was built in the Georgian style by Frederick Van Cortlandt (1699–1749) in 1748 for his family. Van Cortlandt died before its completion and the property was inherited by his son, James Van Cortlandt (1727–1787). It is a 2 1⁄2-story, L-shaped house with a double hipped roof. It was built in 1748 of dressed fieldstone and is representative of the high Georgian style.[3] The Van Cortlandts, a mercantile family prominent in New York affairs, established a grain plantation and grist mill on the property. The house was used during the Revolutionary War by Rochambeau, Lafayette, and Washington. In 1889, after 140 years of occupancy by the Van Cortlandt family, the property was sold to the City of New York and made a public parkland. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1967 and became a National Historic Landmark in 1976.[2][4] The house has been operated as a historic house museum since 1897, the first in the city and fourth in the country.[5]
In popular culture
- The house was used in the season two episode Battle of the Century of Boardwalk Empire where it stood in for a house in Belfast.[6]
References
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- ↑ National Park Service, National Historic Landmark Survey, New York, retrieved June 3, 2007.
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- ↑ Finding fertile ground for film - riverdalepress.com
External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NY-455, "Frederick Van Cortlandt Mansion, Broadway & Two-hundred-forty-second Street, Bronx, Bronx County, NY", 8 photos, supplemental material
- Van Cortlandt Park, New York City Department of Parks & Recreation
- Official website not in Wikidata
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York City
- National Historic Landmarks in New York City
- Historic American Buildings Survey in New York
- Van Cortlandt family
- Houses completed in 1748
- Georgian architecture in New York
- U.S. Route 9
- Museums in the Bronx
- Historic house museums in New York City
- Biographical museums in New York
- Houses in the Bronx
- Riverdale, Bronx
- The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
