The Wyckoff Farmhouse holds the title of the oldest surviving structure in New York City, the Wyckoff House, also known as the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House. This simple wood-frame farmhouse, constructed in several stages over almost two centuries starting in 1652, provides an extraordinary example of a Dutch family's growth and success in the New World. Now known as the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, it stands on its original site in Milton Fidler Park. Archaeologists discovered "oyster middens" (large piles of refuse shells), suggesting that Pieter Claesen Wyckoff (ca. 1625-ca. 1694) and his wife, Grietje Van Ness (ca. 1625-1701), may well have located their primitive one-room house on a Native American campsite in the 1650s. The surviving elements of this very early house have been designated a National Historic Landmark. Pieter and Grietje's descendants continued to live and farm here until 1901 and expanded the house as their resources allowed to accommodate changing lifestyles. Today it is restored to its ca. 1820 appearance and is furnished very simply but authentically.