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    The Jan Martense Schenck house was built by Dutch settler Jan Martense Schenck (1631-1687), within what is now the Mill Basin section of Brooklyn, New...
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    stately manor. The Jans Martense Schenck house originally built in Mill Basin, built 1656, is believed to be the oldest surviving house in New York City...
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    gable ends. Jans Martense Schenck house Abraham Manee House Van Pelt Manor house c.1737 Luykas Van Alen House, Kinderhook. Hubbard House, Brooklyn c....
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    Seaview and Skidmore Avenues. At the time, the land contained the Jans Martense Schenck house. The park was expanded in 1934 after the city purchased land...
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  •  1112. ISBN 9780806346755. OCLC 423822035. Retrieved 8 March 2018. Jan built house in the lower part of what is now village of Athens a short distance...
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    Stoothoff-Baxter-Kouwenhaven House and Joost Van Nuyse House. Other historic structures are the Hendrick I. Lott House (East 36th Street between Fillmore...
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    from 1675 by Jans Martense Schenck,: 12  who built a house on the land: 22  believed to be one of the oldest houses in New York City. Schenck also built...
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    tended to focus on upper-class period rooms. The 17th-century Jans Martense Schenck house became part of the Brooklyn Museum's collection in the 1950s...
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    escaping along the Underground Railroad". Jans Martense Schenck house Vander Ende-Onderdonk House Site Abraham Manee House List of New York City Landmarks National...
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    Philip S. Crooke (category Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state))
    historic Jans Martense Schenck house in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn. The house was inherited by his wife. The house came to be known as the "Martense-Crooke...
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    architecture can be seen; 1+1⁄2-story 1676 Jan Martense Schenck House in the Brooklyn Museum, 1+1⁄2-story 1730s Schenck House located in the "Old Beth Page" Historic...
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  • Moncrief was briefly captured by an American raid on the Flatlands Jans Martense Schenck house as part of the Whaleboat War in 1788. He later became Chief Engineer...
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