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Preservation Long Island Commemorates 400th Anniversary of the Founding of New York:

Free Virtual Talk Explores Dutch Influence in Long Island’s Art and Architecture.

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December 12, 2024 from 5:30 to 6:30 PM

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Cold Spring Harbor, New York—To commemorate of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Dutch colony that would become New York, Preservation Long Island’s Chief Curator and Director of Collections, Lauren Brincat, will discuss the enduring influence of Dutch colonization on Long Island’s material culture and architectural landscape at a free virtual talk on December 12, 2024.

In 1624 Africans enslaved by the Dutch West India Company constructed a fort and a town on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Two years later, the remote outpost became the capital of the Dutch North American colony of New Netherland. The settlement grew, and within a decade, its frontier pushed eastward onto what the Dutch called ‘t Lange Eylandt into present-day Brooklyn and Queens.

By the 1660s, Kings County was home to a number of rural Dutch farming communities, while Queens County was settled by groups of English dissenters. In this New Netherland hinterland, Dutch, English, and Huguenot craft traditions converged resulting in a hybridized regional style. Surviving examples of early Long Island architecture and decorative arts provide evidence of the various cultural influences that operated on Long Island.

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“Although New Netherland was short lived, the Dutch left an imprint on the Long Island’s material culture and domestic architecture that endured well beyond English conquest in 1664,” said Lauren Brincat, Chief Curator and Director of Collections at Preservation Long Island. “As migrants of Dutch descent moved eastward into Long Island’s English settlements, they brought with them Dutch-influenced furnishings and designs that many Long Islanders incorporated into their homes, contributing to an eclectic material and architectural landscape that persisted into the next century and beyond.”

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Preservation Long Island

Preservation Long Island is a not-for-profit organization committed to working with Long Islanders to celebrate and preserve our diverse cultural and architectural heritage through advocacy, education, and the stewardship of historic sites and collections. 

http://preservationlongisland.org

Preservation Long Island maintains and interprets historic sites and collections that embody various aspects of Long Island’s history including:

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Joseph Lloyd Manor, Lloyd Harbor http://preservationlongisland.org/joseph-lloyd-manor/

Custom House, Sag Harbor http://preservationlongisland.org/custom-house/

Sherwood-Jayne Farm, Setauket http://preservationlongisland.org/sherwood-jayne-farm/

Old Methodist Church and Exhibition Gallery http://preservationlongisland.org/methodist-church/

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161 Main Street, P.O. Box 148
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
Tel 631.692.4664
preservationlongisland.org 

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