This newly listed Bronx home is believed to be the oldest in the borough: ‘It really tells the story of New York in 1 house’

What’s aged is caller again — truthful overmuch truthful that this home, rumored to beryllium nan oldest successful The Bronx, is recently disposable for sale.

Even if it isn’t, nan Old Hadley Farm House — a five-bed, 2.5-bath residence located adjacent Fieldston — is surely 1 of nan oldest surviving dwellings successful nan borough. It listed this week for $1.49 million, according to StreetEasy.

“It really tells nan communicative of New York successful 1 house. And it’s not for illustration you thrust on a tree-lined driveway to get there. It’s smack dab successful nan mediate of your of a regular-looking Bronx Street,” Nick Dembowski, a historiographer astatine nan adjacent Van Cortlandt House Museum, told The Post.

The landmarked residence spans 2,660 quadrate feet and includes a sunroom, a detached two-car car shed and a ample gait connected 0.34 acres.

A historical chromatic fireplace and 2-foot-thick-walls adhd to its extra-old world charm.

No 1 has been capable to date, pinch certainly, nan home’s original chromatic structure. Unconfirmed claims of nan home’s beingness successful 1747 would predate moreover nan Van Cortlandt Mansion, which holds nan confirmed title of oldest residence successful nan borough. That twelvemonth would moreover predate nan United States.

Not moreover Dembowski, who extensively profiled nan property for nan Kingsbridge Historical Society, tin opportunity acold backmost nan location goes.

A tenant husbandman named Isaac Green was nan home’s first recorded occupant, successful summation to 5 enslaved people. There is small accusation connected his residence earlier nan American Revolution. William and Elizabeth Hadley purchased nan location and its spot successful 1786. 

The Hadley Farm House saw its adjacent stock of action during nan war, erstwhile section skirmishes betwixt rebels and British troops were commonplace. The location served arsenic a British outpost when, successful 1778, an audacious French agency led rebel troops connected a nighttime ambush of nan property.  

Colonel Armand, according to records cited by Dembowski, snuck up connected nan troops successful nan acheronian — their lookout feline was apparently drunk — and “kind of slapped them astir a small spot and humiliated them.” 

The rebels, according to 1 account, gave nan troops astatine Hadley Farm House “a very sound drubbing.”

Armand proudly documented his exploits in a missive to George Washington.

The location assumed its existent shape successful 1915, according to the landmark nickname report, pinch an description and renewal by renowned designer Dwight James Baum. Baum wholly overhauled nan home, but maintained immoderate of its oldest details, including wood beams crafted from halved character trunks — bark intact.

Property records bespeak that nan spot past changed hands successful 1999. The existent owners listed nan property successful 2024 for a higher $2.25 million, but recovered nary takers. 

The listing’s existent broker, James Endress of Julia B. Fee Sotheby’s International Realty, said nan spot is “basically successful property condition.”

“It’s successful disrepair, anyone driving by nan location tin see,” Endress said.

The exterior of nan location is landmarked, truthful it will require typical attraction and disbursal successful its restoration, but nan detached car shed is not. A caller proprietor could tear it down and subdivide nan 20-something-foot lot, Endress said. Selling it to an investor could offset nan caller owner’s inevitable renewal costs. 

The listing urges buyers to “bring your designer and your imagination.”

“My sincere dream is that whoever ends up buying this location has nan intends to really sphere it, because it does request a adjacent magnitude of preservation work,” Dembowski said.