Van Cortlandt House Museum
Historic House · Bronx, New York
⚠ THE OLDEST BUILDING IN THE BRONX — a Georgian fieldstone house of 1748 built by Frederick Van Cortlandt on a wheat plantation worked by enslaved people, standing in Van Cortlandt Park. ⚠ GEORGE WASHINGTON USED IT, and so did the British; it was a headquarters for both sides at different points in the Revolution. It opened as a museum in 1897 and is a National Historic Landmark.
Van Cortlandt Park, Broadway at West 246th Street, Bronx, New York, 10471, United States
⚠ CHECK THE OPENING DAYS BEFORE TRAVELLING — the museum keeps a limited schedule and is NOT open daily. Admission is modest and bought at the door; guided tours are generally included, and the museum has offered free days. ⚠ IT IS THE OLDEST BUILDING IN THE BRONX, completed 1748, and a National Historic Landmark. ⚠ IT STANDS INSIDE VAN CORTLANDT PARK, which is FREE, 1,146 acres and a separate row in this database — the house is an hour and the park is the day. The 1 train terminates five hundred metres away at Van Cortlandt Park-242nd Street. ⚠ HOURS AND PRICES NOT VERIFIED FOR THIS FILE.
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