Van Buskirk-Oakley House
Small wing built by Abraham J. Van Buskirk about 1820 from earlier c. 1789 house. Federal style main wing built c. 1832-34 for Fanning T. Oakley and wife Hetty Van Buskirk. Later owned by son Abraham V. B. Oakley and wife Eliza Voorhis; their daughter Margaret Hoyt acquired the house in 1900. It remained in the family until 1978. The 211 acre farm in “Kinderkamack” once stretched from the Hackensack River to Paramus.
Sponsored by Fenner & Esler Agency, 1980.
Marker is on Kinderkamack Road (County Route 503), on the left when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
