Built circa 1802 by Abraham P. Ackerman, the house soon gained a stone kitchen wing that he added. Later, his son William built a frame unit. William's son Abraham W., the owner in 1875, remodeled the house and added mansard roofs. The farmhouse remained in the Ackerman family until 1880. The homestead's property lines became present roads: Woodcliff Lake Road in 1811 and Chestnut Ridge Road in 1825.