Kreuzer-Pelton House

1262 Richmond Terrace | also 14 Pelton Avenue | West New Brighton | built 1722

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1. 1722

   Dutch Reformed minister Cornelius Van Santvoord builds a one-room fieldstone cottage

   According to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the oldest part of the house was put up in 1722 by Cornelius Van Santvoord, a Leyden-born Dutch Reformed minister whose church stood in today's Port Richmond. It was a single room with a garret above, laid up in random fieldstone and showing Dutch influence. The kitchen of the enlarged house is in this oldest section.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1770

   Cornelius Kreuzer joins a steep-roofed stone section to the old cottage

   Around 1770 Cornelius Kreuzer built the larger central section, a story and a half of rough-cut stone under a steep roof, later covered in clapboard. Beside the kitchen fireplace in the original cottage, a trap door opens onto stone steps down to a so-called dungeon and a neighboring wine cellar. The commission noted that no two rooms in the house sit on the same level.

   “The central portion of the complex was built by Cornelius Kreuzer about 1770.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1835

   Daniel Pelton Sr. buys the house and adds a two-story brick wing the next year

   Daniel Pelton Sr. bought the property in 1835, and his family owned and lived in it for many years afterward. He oversaw the two-story brick addition built onto the central section in 1836. His son Daniel Pelton was a noted poet around the turn of the century; his poem "Lovers' Lane" describes today's Pelton Avenue, then known as Kreuzer's Lane, as a farm lane lined with cherry trees.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

4. 1967

   August 24

   The Landmarks Preservation Commission designates the Kreuzer-Pelton House

   The commission had heard two witnesses speak in favor at a September 13, 1966 hearing, with nobody opposed and no objection from the owner. Its findings called the three sections, from 1722, about 1770 and 1836, an example of historic continuity with a picturesque unity, and it marked Block 149, Lot 1 as the landmark site.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

Further reading

• Kreuzer-Pelton HouseWikipedia

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