{"nrhp_refnum":"77000975","name":"Vander Ende-Onderdonk House Site","other_names":["Van Anda House","Van Enden House"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"1820 Flushing Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Queens","state":"NY","lat":40.71123339400003,"lon":-73.91967986199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-01-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Exploration/Settlement","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An archeological and historic site of about two acres at 1820 Flushing Avenue in Ridgewood, Queens, New York. It holds the charred ruins of a stone, gambrel-roofed house built in 1713 by Paulus Vander-Ende, along with a twentieth-century greenhouse factory and buried remains.","why_significant":"The site is significant for its age, as a locus of seventeenth and eighteenth century Dutch and Huguenot settlement, and for its role as a reference point in the 1769 boundary settlement between Kings and Queens Counties. Archeological tests found intact features and deposits that document the site's use from the early eighteenth century through the twentieth. The form describes these remains as unique for this part of New York City.","narrative":"At 1820 Flushing Avenue in Ridgewood, Queens, a two-acre site preserves the remains of a stone, gambrel-roofed farmhouse built in 1713 by Paulus Vander-Ende. A fire in February 1975 gutted the house, leaving the dressed-stone shell, and a twentieth-century greenhouse factory and open rubble-strewn land share the lot. The property lay in a strip of Long Island once called the Disputed Territory, claimed by both Newtown and Bushwick from 1661 until the 1769 line between Kings and Queens Counties was fixed there. Ownership passed from the Smidt family through Stevenson, Titus, Vander-Ende, Beadel and, in 1821, Adrian Onderdonk. Later it served as a livery stable and scrap-glass depot, then as an office for the American Moninger Greenhouse Company. Archeological tests in 1975 found a foundation, cellar stairs and a cobblestone courtyard, with sealed eighteenth-century artifacts beneath. Together these remains document the change from farmstead to suburb to industry.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Paulus Vander-Ende (built the stone house in 1713)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"The stone house was gutted by fire in February 1975; its ruins, a twentieth-century factory and open rubble-strewn land remain, and the site is fenced. The ownership status is listed as unoccupied.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.989551-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/77000975.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000975/5fea5197f9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000975/5fea5197f9-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vander_Ende_Onderdonk_back_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vander_Ende_Onderdonk_back_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321169","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vander_Ende%E2%80%93Onderdonk_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7914414"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/queens/vander-ende-onderdonk-house-site-77000975/"}