Built 1748 Designated NHL December 24, 1976 Area 78 ha Architectural style Georgian architecture | NRHP Reference # 67000010 Opened 1748 Phone +1 718-543-3344 Added to NRHP 24 December 1967 | |
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Location Van Cortlandt Park, The Bronx, New York City, NY Address 6036 Broadway, Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx, NY 10471, United States Hours Closed now Friday10AM–3PMSaturday11AM–4PMSunday11AM–4PMMondayClosedTuesday10AM–3PMWednesday10AM–3PMThursday10AM–3PMSuggest an edit Similar Van Cortlandt Park, Valentine–Varian House, Dyckman House, Bartow‑Pell Mansion and Carri, Edgar Allan Poe Cottage Profiles | ||
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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. 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. The house has been operated as a historic house museum since 1897, the first in the city and fourth in the country.
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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.