Van Cortlandt House Museum

Van Cortlandt House Museum is the oldest surviving building in New York City's borough of The Bronx.  

The Van Cortlandts were a mercantile family, established a thriving wheat growing and processing business, including a grist mill for processing the wheat into flour and a fleet of shallow draft boats to carry the flour from the south end of his lake down Tibbet's Brook and out to the Harlem and Hudson Rivers to market.   During the Revolutionary War, the house was used by Rochambeau, Lafayette, and Washington.