The Hendrick I. Lott House was constructed in 1720, and by 1800 it was called the finest country house in Kings County. Traditional Dutch-American farmhouse on the outside, its interior is much more grand. The Lott property stretched from Kings Highway to Jamaica Bay, and its farm fields were worked by the Lott family, enslaved and freed Africans, and European immigrants. The house later became a stop on the Underground Railroad, and ritual objects placed by the enslaved were found within. The last farm crops were harvested in 1925, and the land was sold to developers. Ella Suydam, the last Lott descendant to reside there, lived in the house until she died in 1989. The City of New York purchased the house from her estate in 2002.
