Van Nuyse-Coe House
1128 East 34th Street | Flatlands | built 1920
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1793
Joost Van Nuyse's farmhouse is completed on the family's Flatlands farm
The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates this Dutch Colonial farmhouse to 1793-94 and could not identify the builder. It says Joost Van Nuyse, known as Joost of Flatlands, probably had it built and died in it. His father had bought the 85-acre farm in 1725.
- 1794
The Coe House is a near-square Dutch Colonial farmhouse with a curved, overhanging roof
The frame house is nearly square and a story and a half high, with a steeply pitched roof that sweeps out into a cantilevered overhang. A low brick stoop leads to a paneled Dutch door with a transom. A smaller attached wing repeats the design without the roof overhang and has a covered porch on five square posts.
- 1852
Johannes Van Nuyse rents the house to the Ditmas Coe family, who give it its common name
In 1852 Joost Van Nuyse's son Johannes rented the farmhouse to Ditmas Coe. The landmarks commission says the building is now generally known by the Coe family's name.
“In 1852, his son, Johannes Van Nuyse, rented the house to Ditmas Coe and it is after the name of this family that the building is now generally known.”
- 1925
The farmhouse is moved to its current site on East 34th Street
According to Wikipedia, the house was moved to its present site in 1925. Today it is a private residence at 1128 East 34th Street in Flatlands.
“The original section was built in 1744 and enlarged between 1793 and 1806. It was moved to its present site in 1925.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1969
The city designates the Coe House a landmark, praising its state of preservation
On November 19, 1969 the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Coe House and its tax lot a landmark. It called the house an excellent late eighteenth-century Dutch Colonial farmhouse in an extremely good state of preservation. The commission added that it stood out among the twentieth-century houses around it and belonged to a rapidly disappearing type.
“…the Coe House is an excellent example of a late eighteenth century Dutch Colonial farmhouse…”
Further reading
- Joost Van Nuyse HouseWikipedia
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