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The garden surrounding the Dyckman Farmhouse is a wonderful retreat from the bustle of Broadway. Although we no longer have the extensive acreage of the original farm, there is a garden of just under 1/2 acre. The garden includes a small reproduction smokehouse built as part of the 1916 restoration as well as a Military Hut. In the early 1900's, Reginald Pelham Bolton, a historian and amateur archaeologist, uncovered the remains of more than sixty huts used as shelter by British and Hessian soldiers during the Revolutionary War. Bolton documented his discovery and then in 1916 he excavated a chimney, walls and floor and reconstructed them as a full hut within the park of the Dyckman Farmhouse. The hut sits in the midst of a formal garden, a feature of the 1916 landscape. The formal garden edging and paths were recently restored thanks to the work of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and the Historic House Trust. Volunteers and staff at Dyckman have replanted the formal garden beds with historically appropriate flowers will bloom through several seasons. Projects in the garden have also been made possible through private donations: Amla's Kitchen Club Douglass & Bobbi Ridgeway In Memory of W. De Vries In Memory of Zoom |
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Dyckman Farmhouse Museum 4881 Broadway at 204th Street New York, New York 10034 212.304.9422 212.304.0635 fax info@dyckmanfarmhouse.org 208 Dyckman Farmhouse Museum. All rights reserved. All historic images from the Collection of Dyckman Farmhouse Museum. Contemporary Images and design by s de vries |