Guyon-Lake-Tysen House

3737 Richmond Road | also 3711 Richmond Road, 1001 Richmond Hill Road | Lighthouse Hill | built 1931

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1740

    Joseph Guyon builds a Dutch-Flemish farmhouse on his Oakwood farm

    Joseph Guyon raised the main part of this house around 1740 on a 115-acre farm in Oakwood, near the shore south of today's Hylan Boulevard. It is a one-and-a-half-story timber frame built with the bent system, with pine floors, paneling and doors, and walls filled with mud and straw. Much of its Georgian and Federal paneling survives. The kitchen wing was rebuilt around 1820.

    “It was built by Joseph Guyon on his farmstead in Oakwood, Staten Island…”

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1800

    Farmer and blacksmith Henry Barger's household includes three enslaved people

    Henry Barger, a farmer and blacksmith, held the house from 1797 to 1804, and his family kept it until 1813. The 1800 federal census for Southfield lists his household with three enslaved people alongside family members. New York did not fully abolish slavery until 1827.

    “1800 U.S. Census – Southfield (p. 16) Henry Barregor (Barger) ... 3 slaves…”

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1820

    Daniel Lake's census entry lists an enslaved woman and two enslaved boys

    The Daniel Lake family farmed the property from 1813 to 1839. The 1820 census for Southfield counts a large household, including one enslaved female aged 14 to 26 and two enslaved males under 14. The enslaved people may have lived over the kitchen. By 1830, after New York's full abolition of slavery in 1827, the census entry shows three free people of color in the household.

    “The Lake family owned several slaves, who may have been housed in the rooms above the kitchen.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 1839

    David J. and Elizabeth Lake Tysen take over the family farmhouse

    In 1839 the house passed to David J. Tysen and Elizabeth Lake Tysen, who farmed and dealt in real estate until 1885. Their son David J. Tysen II then owned it until 1932 while his mother and siblings lived there. Restaurateur John L. "Jack" Porter occupied it from 1932 to 1937, followed by real estate agent Charles Whitaker until 1962.

    “1839–1885: David J. and Elizabeth Lake Tysen; farmer, real estate dealer…”

    Source: Wikipedia

  5. 1962

    July 9-12

    Historic Richmond Town moves the farmhouse from Oakwood

    Historic Richmond Town, the living history museum, acquired the house in 1962. Over four days, July 9 to 12, it was carried from its original Oakwood site to the museum grounds. After restoration it opened to visitors in October 1963, and full restoration was finished in the 1970s. Its rooms are furnished for periods from the mid-1700s to the late 1800s, with demonstrations centered on farm life around 1820.

    Source: Wikipedia

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