In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Edith Gonzalez talks about the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House in Canarsie, Brooklyn, the oldest structure in the city and the first to be designated a landmark.

Typifying the architectural vernacular of the Dutch, New York’s first colonial settlers, the farmhouse also bears the physical reflection of the myriad social changes which came afterward, thus offering a unique window onto the city’s past. Gonzalez, an historical archaeologist specialized in the colonial Americas, has excavated a number of agricultural estates in the West Indies and NYC, including Wyckoff House -- and in this podcast asks, 'What's in a home?'

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