House and Garden 
Road, but not visible from the train, 
is a very fine and handsome stone 
house. 1 he main house and the 
long wing are both of well-cut stone 
of the brown sandstone native to the 
district. 1 he house is now occupied 
by a Dutch market gardener who, 
with characteristic Teutonic self-suf¬ 
ficiency, treated me as if I were a 
frivolous imbecile when he grudg¬ 
ingly gave me permission to enter 
his door yard and photograph the 
very interesting door of his little 
appreciated home. There upon a 
bench by the side door was a row 
of sabots drying in the sun; I had 
not thought there was such a thing 
to be seen in America. 1 he door is 
painted white and the hand-carved orna¬ 
ments are well executed. Over the door is a 
transom protected by a lead tracery; the 
Virgin Mary, 1 think, is represented by tbe 
central figure. All through this country, 
as in the older portions of Manhattan Island, 
these lead traceries are to be found in fan¬ 
lights, side lights and transoms; but this one 
is the most elaborate I have run across as yet. 
If my Teuton he of the sabots had been 
less surly and contemptuous, I should have 
dared to beg permission to see the mantels, 
for 1 do not doubt they were well worth atten¬ 
tion; but I was so withered with his scorn 
THE QUACKENBUSH HOUSE, WYCKOFF 
that, having secured a far from satisfactory 
picture of the door, I beat a hasty retreat. 
1 he house was so embowered in trees as to 
show to but little advantage from any view¬ 
point. 
At Wyckoff further up the line, there are 
several more houses worthy of consideration. 
T he Quackenbush house stands half a mile 
from any other and is a true farmstead. It 
is flanked by long sheds and a generous barn 
and is occupied still as a farmer’s home. 
1 he long upper porch and the oval windows 
are unique in my experience with farmhouses; 
the front is of brick and has a most interesting 
porch with wooden panels, carved with the 
same type of ornaments, 
leaded transoms and an ova! 
fanlight. T he old Dutch Re¬ 
formed Church in the village 
gives an air of age and makes 
a picturesque point in the 
landscape as seen from the 
Quackenbush house across a 
rolling extent of green mead¬ 
ows. 
Another house, near Wyc¬ 
koff, is of interest as showing 
what minor changes only are 
necessary in the plan of these 
old farmhouses in order to 
make them meet the require¬ 
ments of modern life. 1 his, 
known as the Packer House, 
is now part of the estate of 
Mr. Bernard M. Ewing, who 
of recent years has acquired 
DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH, WYCKOFF 
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