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Show OLDEST HOUSE IN PATERSON. A Pre-Revolutlonary Structure Goes to Make Way for a Church Site. Tho uldeHt framo house In Paterson, N. J., dating back fur moro than 160 years, was demolished to mako room for tho now Trinity Methodist Episcopal Epis-copal church. Tho building Is In two parts, stono and wood, tho Ftono section sec-tion having beon built by Slmonon Van Winkle In tho early part of tlio seventeenth century. Records of tho Van Winkle family show tho framo plcco wns added to the origins! building build-ing n few years beforo the Revolution. Tho hoiiso was used by tho family ns a resldenco until a few years beforo be-foro tho close of tho eighteenth century, cen-tury, when It became the Black Ilorso tnvern, n noted hostelry for persons traveling In stngo coachos from Toto-wa Toto-wa to Now York. No stago coach rldo to New York was completo unless n stop was mndo at tho tavern for refreshments. re-freshments. Tho houso always remained In the possession of tho Van Wltiklo family. Its substantial character, with Its hewn onk timbers, split lath and colonial co-lonial ornamentation of tho stairways and doorposts, to is mutely of Its age and tho all-around ability of tho early Dutch settlers who mado that section of tho new country their homo. |