dyckman farmhouse

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 has
become affectionately known as the Hessian Hut.

The hut sits in the midst of a formal garden, a feature of the 1916 landscape. The formal garden edging
and paths were restored thanks to the work of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and
the Historic House Trust. Work continues throughout the site to plant bulbs, flowers and shrubs
sympathetic to the 1916 era of the garden.

Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
4881 Broadway at 204th Street |New York, New York 10034
212.304.9422 |212.304.0635 fax | info@dyckmanfarmhouse.org

2011 Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, all rights reserved.
All historic images from the Collection of the
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum.
Contemporary Images and design by s de vries

Projects in the garden have also been made possible through the work of our wonderful
volunteers and by our generous donors, including:

New Heights Realty | Douglass & Bobbi Ridgeway |In Memory of W. De Vries |
Amla Sanghvi in Memory of the late Stella Snead and her love of growing flowers|
In Memory of Zoom |In Memory of J. Buiter

THANK YOU DONORS FOR MAKING THE GARDEN BEAUTIFUL!