This is Brooklyn’s only surviving eighteenth-century Dutch house of largely stone construction. The Van Sicklen family likely built it early in the eighteenth century and expanded it in the mid-eighteenth century. In the 19th century, it passed to the related Hicks family, and from them to the realtor William E. Platt, who in 1905 added dormer windows and a stucco covering. In an article called “An Old Colonial Homestead Born Again” published in the June 1909 issue of Country Life in America, Platt’s wife, Isabelle, perpetuated the myth that this was the home of Lady Deborah Moody, Gravesend’s seventeenth-century founder. Although the house stands on Moody’s property, she died in 1658 or 1659, long before it was built. Nevertheless, Platt’s label has stuck. After fifty years on the LPC’s calendar, the house was landmarked on April 12, 2016