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Mabee House
The Mabee House at the Mabee Farm Historic Site is the oldest house still standing in the Mohawk Valley. It is located in the town of Rotterdam, N. Y., in the hamlet of Rotterdam Junction, New York, along New York State Highway 5S, about six miles (10 km) west of the city of Schenectady.
The oldest building on the property is the stone house. It was in the Mabee Family for almost three centuries. The original property, including the house, inn, brick building, a family cemetery and more, was donated to the Schenectady County Historical Society on January 29, 1993. An H-bent frame Dutch barn, dating from the 1760s, was acquired from the Nilsen family in 1997, moved from Johnstown, N.Y., restored, and re erected at the Mabee Farm Historic Site. Various educational programs and events are now offered to the public there. In 2007 the neighboring 27 acres was added to the property. That is where the new George E. Franchere Education Center was built in 2011.
==History==
The property was first acquired by Daniel Janse Van Antwerpen in 1671. He purchased the property from the Mohawks and received a grant for the patent in 1680 from the English Governor Edmund Andros to possibly use as a fur trading post. Van Antwerpen, a neighbor of Jan Pieterse Mabee and wife Anna Borsboom in the Stockade Historic District, sold the westerly half of the farm property to Jan in 1705/6. The original deed was given to the Schenectady County Historical Society along with 582 other documents and over 1,000 artifacts. The original structures on the farm are the stone house, a frame pre-Erie Canal inn, in which Revolutionary War General Philip Schuyler stayed in 1792 while surveying for the Western Inland Navigation and Lock Company, and a half brick and half wood probable summer kitchen/mother-in-law house. The Farm's original barns, however, were consumed by fire in the 1870s and 1970s. There is also a family cemetery, which has grave stones dating from 1771. The property has been handed down through the Mabee family 287 years!
George Franchere, the last owner from that particular branch of the Jan Mabee line, donated the property to the Schenectady County Historical Society, with the intention that it would be maintained as a museum and educational center. To that end, numerous family members and volunteers have worked to preserve the property and its donated artifacts, and to develop educational programs and events that present colonial American history to visitors. They built a dock on the bordering Mohawk River in 2004 and acquired two replica bateaux built by students of the Alplaus Maritime Academy for use and demonstration near the river’s edge.
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