--part1_22.558bb01.264333d9_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_22.558bb01.264333d9_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <NYBROOKLYN-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yc03.mx.aol.com (rly-yc03.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.35]) by air-yc03.mail.aol.com (v70.20) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 May 2000 20:00:27 -0400 Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [209.85.6.27]) by rly-yc03.mx.aol.com (v71.10) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 May 2000 19:59:55 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA15299; Mon, 1 May 2000 16:56:56 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 16:56:56 -0700 (PDT) X-Original-Sender: NancyL916@aol.com Mon May 1 16:56:53 2000 From: NancyL916@aol.com Message-ID: <c5.4d5e404.263f73aa@aol.com> Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 19:56:26 EDT Old-To: NYBROOKLYN-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 70 Subject: [NYBROOKLYN] Old Wood Pt5 Resent-Message-ID: <wxJnrC.A.4uD.GnhD5@bl-11.rootsweb.com> To: NYBROOKLYN-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: NYBROOKLYN-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <NYBROOKLYN-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/11138 X-Loop: NYBROOKLYN-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: NYBROOKLYN-L-request@rootsweb.com The Manor House stood on a neck of land between Newtown Creek and the salt meadows & bounded by Meeker Ave on the South. This tract had since 1660 been the plantation of Pieter Jansen De WITT. Pieter LOTT, the son-in-law of De WITT, purchased the farm in 1720. Abraham POLHEMUS of Brooklyn, born 1719, settled in Bushwick, where he died in 1781. He bought the farm in 1749 & erected the Manor House on the Woodpoint Road, on what is now the roadway of Monitor St near Engert Ave, close to the Junction of Meeker Av. It stood back from the roadway in a big clump of trees; facing south east, its rear toward the creek. It was an unusually large frame house of Dutch architecture with half doors, four good rooms on the ground floor & a large hall running through the centre & wide piazzas along the front and rear. In course of the years the house had become dilapidated and shattered by age & the storms of the hard winters of the 1840's & was almost untenable. It was known as the MENIUS Manor House. Peter WYCKOFF had bought the property in 1797, & the WYCKOFF family occupied it for a time. The WYCKOFFs sold in 1847 a large part of the land to David C. & A. G. KINGSLAND, who in turn disposed of it in 1880, it was then laid out in building lots. The Manor House had been repaired & turned into a road house. Ball games were played in the surrounding grounds on Kingsland & Norman Ave. They became known as CLARKSON'S Grounds, Bob CLARKSON being the inn keeper. The people returning from Calvary Cemetery used to stop there for refreshments. Later one RUGHER kept the inn. In 1892 the structure was demolished & its timbers were used in erecting a house on the corner of Maspeth & Morgan Aves, which was occupied by workmen of Peter COOPER. It was painted a red color & was still standing about 6 yrs ago. The Manor House Cafe , cor Meeker & Kingland carried the name of the old Manor House which is remembered by the baseball fans who used to frequent the ball grounds. Until the Union Grounds were laid out, between Harrison & Marcy Aves, the Eckford Club played opposite the Manor House on a vacant strip of land of the BACKUS estate. The club did not have to pay any fee for this privilege. Conselyea St & the nearby streets running east led into a patch of forest known as the BACKUS Woods. Grand Street car stables stood opposite the Manor House, in a fire in 1876 fifty horses were lost here. --part1_22.558bb01.264333d9_boundary--