The Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead is a historic treasure
Eye on Real Estate: Farmhouse near Madison High School housed Hessians during the Revolutionary War
If these walls could talk, they’d say snide stuff about the Hessian officers who moved in during the Revolutionary War.
This farmhouse, built about 1766, is located on a Brooklyn street a few blocks away from James Madison High School.
The white-shingle house, which has a porch with a distinctive Dutch Colonial-style curved roof, is the centerpiece of the Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead. The city landmark also includes a barn and a white picket fence surrounding a vast yard that’s a remnant of the 100-acre farmland that once was part of the property.
The neighborhood that grew up around the homestead in the early decades of the 20th century is called Madison. The present-day street address of the long-deceased Hessians’ hangout is 1669 East 22nd St.