Inside the Front Door of New York City’s Oldest Homes
<p>All New Yorkers recognize the name Stuyvesant. The oldest building in Greenwich Village and Manhattan to be used continuously as a single-family residence was built in 1795 by Peter Stuyvesant’s great-great-grandson Nicholas William Stuyvesant at 44 Stuyvesant Street. Peter was a 17th-century Dutch colonial officer and governor of the New Amsterdam settlement that became New York City. Along with the Morris-Jumel Mansion and the Dyckman Farmhouse in Upper Manhattan, it is the only surviving residential building in Manhattan from the 18th century. It was designated as part of the St. Marks Historic District on January 14, 1969. At the time, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission noted: “It is impossible to over emphasize the importance of this building — historically and architecturally. It is one of only two remaining houses of the early generations of the Stuyvesant family, and it is that family name, above all others, that represents Dutch New York.”</p>
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