Date: May 1923; 1923-05Material: Black and white photographDimension:
4.5 x 3.5 inches; 400 dpi
Creator: Eugene L. ArmbrusterIdentifier: aql:29547 ela-004791 ela-004791.tif
Description: Riker Rapelye-Lent House - (Riker House, Isaac Rapelye Jr., aka Lent, aka Smith). The house, built ca. 1729, is still standing at 78-03 19th Avenue. The Riker family burial place is in the center of the photo. A one-room dwelling was built by Dutch immigrant and prominent local farmer named Abraham Rycken (Riker) Van Lent (1619-1689) ca. 1650's. This may have incorporated into a dwelling built by Rycken’s neighbor, a fellow farmer, and Harck Siboutsen (or Hark Krankheyt) ca. 1650. Not only were the two men neighbors, but Abraham’s eldest son Ryck, who took the Lent surname, married the Siboutsen daughter Catrina, while his daughter Mary married a Siboutsen son, Sibout H. Krankheyt. In 1727 the farm was willed Abraham Lent (nephew of Siboutsen's son), who expanded the house close to its present dimensions. Daniel Lent (d.1797), was last of that family to live here, he sold it to Moses Sherwood in 1797. The house then passed from Sherwood to Teunis Tiebout in 1798, and Isaac Rapelye Jr. (aka Rapelje) in 1806, a cousin of both the Rycken and Lent families. It stayed in the Rapelye family until the Steinway and Sons Piano Manufacturers purchased it in the 1880's.
Summary/Description : Riker Rapelye-Lent House - (Riker House, Isaac Rapelye Jr., aka Lent, aka Smith). The house, built ca. 1729, is still standing at 78-03 19th Avenue. The Riker family burial place is in the center of the photo. A one-room dwelling was built by Dutch immigrant and prominent local farmer named Abraham Rycken (Riker) Van Lent (1619-1689) ca. 1650's. This may have incorporated into a dwelling built by Rycken’s neighbor, a fellow farmer, and Harck Siboutsen (or Hark Krankheyt) ca. 1650. Not only were the two men neighbors, but Abraham’s eldest son Ryck, who took the Lent surname, married the Siboutsen daughter Catrina, while his daughter Mary married a Siboutsen son, Sibout H. Krankheyt. In 1727 the farm was willed Abraham Lent (nephew of Siboutsen's son), who expanded the house close to its present dimensions. Daniel Lent (d.1797), was last of that family to live here, he sold it to Moses Sherwood in 1797. The house then passed from Sherwood to Teunis Tiebout in 1798, and Isaac Rapelye Jr. (aka Rapelje) in 1806, a cousin of both the Rycken and Lent families. It stayed in the Rapelye family until the Steinway and Sons Piano Manufacturers purchased it in the 1880's.
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