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Upcoming events:
New short term exhibit - Reflecting the Past, Promise of the Future - Celebrating 100 Years of Girl Scouting. Opening Reception, Friday, March 2. Exhibit runs through April, 2012.
Architectural Tours of the Onderdonk House - Saturday, March 31, starting at 2 PM. Dave McDonald.
Genealogy Lecture Series with Anthony Lauriano. March 24, April 21, May 19, July 21. Look for updates.
Strawberry Festival - Sunday, June 10th.
Become a member of the Greater Ridgewood Historical Society- Sign up online and join the GRHS family. Did you know that you can pay your membership dues online as well as donate to our "Raise the Roof" Fund as well as donate to other projects the Society is working on?
Click here for more details...
Click here to view an amazing slideshow of the Strawberry Festival 2011
Bethany Romanowski will guest curate an exhibition at the Vander Ende-Onderdonk House which will focus on tactics used by the West India Company and Kiliaen van Rensselaer to recruit colonists to settle in New Netherland, will support the exhibition Van der Donck’s New Netherland...
The Vander Ende - Onderdonk House is proud to announce that we are a Blue Star Museum - Honoring our Military http://www.bluestarfam.org/Programs/Blue_Star_Museums From Memorial Day to Labor Day, all active service men and women and their families are admitted free to the Onderdonk House
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Learn about upcoming events, history, volunteering and more...
School Program Update - Due to funding from Dept of Cultural Affairs, secured though our Councilwomen, Diana Reyna and Elizabeth Crowley, we will be retaining our 2011 fee for School Program - $150.00 per class of 35 children. See our School Program link for reservation forms.
We are open on Saturdays, from 1 - 5 PM, unless noted. Suggested donation $3.00 adults, $1.00 children except for special events or programs.
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Richard Asbell has recently redecorated the Victorian Room and added Mrs. Onderdonk! 
Authentic Spinning Wheel donated from the estate of Father John O'Halloran - former Director and Archeologist for the Society.
Our chicks got so big - they needed a new house! You can donate
to Chelsea's Chicken Project at the Onderdonk House, online or send us a check made out to the Greater Ridgewood Historical Society.
See all upcoming events at the Vander-Ende Onderdonk House.
View a slideshow of the Car Show at the Strawberry Festival 2010
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Onderdonk House Wine Tasting Party - Look for future schedule in 2012!
Raise the Roof at the Onderdonk House! - GRHS and Waste Management celebrated the 300th anniversary of the House and helped raise funds to replace the failing roof
View "Historic House In Need Of Renovations": a NY1 Report
A Summer Wedding - A slideshow of a special event at the House.
Chelsea, our caretaker is holding the newest member of the Onderdonk Family - a chick! Yes, chickens have returned to the farm. You can visit the chicks in the backyard, beyond Arbitration Rock.
(Photo: DT Dougherty, 2009) The Society was the grateful recipient of 27 trees as part of the One Million Trees, NYC tree planting initiative. We will be revamping our Education Program to include a lesson on our new trees. We also have a "gardening group" that is volunteering on Monday's. Besides weeding and watering, they tackled resetting the front brick walkway leading to the stone house. Want to join? Stop by on Monday mornings, after 9 AM.
Front exterior view of the Onderdonk House from Flushing Avenue. (Photo: Ellen Brody-Kirmss, 2005) 
Rear exterior view of the Onderdonk House from Flushing Avenue. (Photo: Ellen Brody-Kirmss, 2005) 
Arbitration Rock, the most prominent marker along the January 7, 1769 Survey Line, settled the century-old boundary dispute between the towns of Bushwick and Newtown, and the counties of Queens and Kings. The rock was originally located 297 feet northwest of the Vander Ende-Onderdonk House, several feet below the current roadbed of Onderdonk Avenue. It was buried about 1930 when the area on the northerly side of Flushing Avenue was graded in preparation for the opening of part of Onderdonk Avenue. Arbitration Rock was moved to its current site behind the Onderdonk House along the old boundary line on August 8, 2001 through the efforts of Borough President Claire Shulman and in cooperation with the Queens Historical Society. (Photo: Robert Alan Espino, 2006) | Welcome to the official Web site of The Greater Ridgewood Historical Society and The Vander Ende-Onderdonk House The Vander Ende-Onderdonk House, located in Ridgewood on the border of Queens and Brooklyn, is the oldest Dutch Colonial stone ho
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use in New York City. Peter Stuyvesant granted the land it sits on in the mid-seventeenth century, and by 1660, Hendrick Barents Smidt occupied a small house on the site. In 1709, Paulus Vander Ende of Flatbush purchased the farm and began construction of the current house. The building was a prominent marker in the 1769 settlement of the boundary dispute between Bushwick in Kings County and Newtown in Queens County. During the 1820's, Adrian Onderdonk erected a small frame addition to the stone house immediately above the remnants of the foundation of the 1660 building. Its architectural features are typical of Dutch buildings in this period: a gambrel roof, Dutch doors, central hallway and double hung windows with shutters. The Greater Ridgewood Historical Society was established in 1975 by a group of local residents to prevent the demolition of the Vander Ende Onderdonk House. From 1975 until 1981, the GRHS raised funds to reconstruct the house which had been seriously damaged by fire, and in 1976, published a history of the greater Ridgewood area, entitled Our Community, Its History and People. In 1977, the House and property were listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and in 1978, granted the same status on the New York State Register. The House was given New York City landmark status in June of 1996. With the help of Federal, State and local funds, the Onderdonk House was opened to the public in 1982.  The House serves as a museum for a permanent exhibit on the archaeology of the Onderdonk site, as well as changing exhibits relating to history, the arts and culture. The Society also maintains a history and genealogical research library, and offers many cultural events annually, including: guided house tours, history lectures and programs, genealogy workshops, craft classes and special events, such as St. Nicholas Day and other Dutch celebrations. The history and location of the house provide a rich educational and cultural experience for visitors. Our programs are supported by public service contracts from the City of New York, Department of Cultural Affairs, though the support of Diana Reyna, Councilwoman, and the membership and friends of the Society. If you would like to receive notices about upcoming events, send your email address to info@onderdonkhouse.org and we will add you to our distribution list. 
Recently uncovered fireplace, the oldest in the house, with interior side bake oven. Are you interested in helping restore this original? (Photo: Robert Alan Espino, 2007)
Antique Cash Register, kindly on loan from our friends at Waste Management. (Photo: Charles Sanchez, 2009)
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