Located at 27 Gravesend Neck Road, the Hicks-Platt house was built on the Moody Farm sometime in the 1640s; the exact year is unknown. Ferdinandus Van Sicklen, a wealthy landowner, purchased the land in 1702 and it remained in the family for generations. In 1842 Cornelia Van Sicklen-Hicks inherited the property along with her husband Thomas, and for the next sixty-four years it would be known as the Hicks Homestead.

A real estate developer named William E. Platt purchased the house in 1906. His wife, Isabelle, published an article in the June 1909 issue of Country Life in America where she discussed her Arts and Crafts style restoration project on the house. It was in that article where she used the term “the Lady Moody Homestead” although there is no definitive proof that Moody had lived there; however, the house is located on land that once belonged to the Moody farm.

Still standing today, the Hicks-Platt House is one of a small number of original Dutch-American Colonial farmhouses in New York City, albeit with alterations made over the years. Lady Deborah Moody is buried directly across the street in Gravesend Cemetery.