Albert J. Zabriskie Farmhouse

The Albert J. Zabriskie Farmhouse is located at the current address of 7 East Ridgewood Avenue in Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, just east of New Jersey Route 17. This is one of several Zabriskie historic sites associated with the descendants of prominent settler Albrycht Zaborowski (1638–1711). This stone house was built in 1805 by Albert Jacob Zabriskie (1760–1835) in the New Jersey Dutch style, owned by four generations of the family until 1924, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1977. Due to confusion from the street name and handwritten notes on one page of the NRHP nomination, the building is sometimes mistakenly listed as being in Ridgewood, New Jersey.[3]

Albert J. Zabriskie Farmhouse
Southern view (c.1977)
Albert J. Zabriskie Farmhouse is located in Bergen County, New Jersey
Albert J. Zabriskie Farmhouse
Albert J. Zabriskie Farmhouse is located in New Jersey
Albert J. Zabriskie Farmhouse
Albert J. Zabriskie Farmhouse is located in the United States
Albert J. Zabriskie Farmhouse
Nearest cityParamus, New Jersey
Coordinates40°58′12″N 74°4′39″W
Area0.5 acres (0.2 ha)
Built1805
Architectural styleNew Jersey Dutch
NRHP reference No.77000847[1]
NJRHP No.621[2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPNovember 7, 1977
Designated NJRHPMarch 28, 1977
Northern view (1936)
First floor plan (1936)

History
The house in 2019, then a law office

Today's East Ridgewood Avenue was once a colonial road linking the Saddle River (to the west) and the Hackensack River (to the east). Generations of the prolific Zabriskie family would raise children and crops and livestock in the area for over 200 years. Albert Jacob Zabriskie, a great-grandson of patriarch Albrycht, inherited one-third of his father's 225 acres in 1796, and built the 1805 house using materials salvaged from his father's home directly across the road. Albert Jacob left the house to his son Peter Albert Zabriskie in 1835, who left it to his own son Albert Peter Zabriskie in 1875, who left it to his niece Anna Zabriskie in 1904, who finally sold it in 1924 after 119 years of family ownership. Since then, the historic home was remodeled into professional offices, the lot was subdivided to a half-acre, and the surrounding land was converted into the Fashion Center shopping complex and a suburban housing development and NJ Route 17. Still, despite the many changes over the years, the 1805 stone farmhouse has kept virtually the same appearance from the road, and remains one of Bergen County's best-preserved examples of its Dutch Colonial heritage.[3]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places: Bergen County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection: Historic Preservation Office. May 28, 2014. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 19, 2012. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
  3. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory: Nomination Form (including Bergen County Stone House Survey)". National Park Service. 1977. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
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