This Dutch Colonial farmhouse was constructed in 1658. Rutger Joesten Van Brunt arrived in New York from the Netherlands in 1653 and soon after was one of the first 19 settlers of New Utrecht. Van Brunt married and with his wife built a new home near the center of the town. Over the next few centuries, the descendants of Rutgert Joosten Van Brunt intermarried with other Brooklyn founding families, owned large tracts of land in south Brooklyn, and constructed any number of family homes. But this small home remained; when the street grid came to this part of Brooklyn, the home sat on the corner of New Utrecht Avenue and 84th Street. After outliving a number of other Van Brunt homesteads, this building was finally razed in 1928.