{"id":3197,"date":"2026-07-26T13:13:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patersonhistory.com\/?page_id=3197"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:13:43","slug":"the-van-buren-farmhouse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/patersonhistory.com\/index.php\/the-van-buren-farmhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Van Buren Farmhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Charles E. Van Buren Farmhouse<\/strong>, commonly known as the Van Buren House<\/strong>, is one of Paterson’s oldest surviving residential buildings and one of the few remaining reminders of the city’s agricultural past before the development of Eastside Park. Although it is sometimes dated c. 1855<\/strong>, most preservation documents place its construction in the 1850\u20131860<\/strong> period, with many identifying it simply as c. 1850<\/strong> or the 1860s<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Construction and Early History<\/h2>\n

The farmhouse was built for Charles E. Van Buren<\/strong>, a lawyer and member of the prominent Dutch-American Van Buren family. During the mid-nineteenth century the property was part of a substantial farm located east of the growing industrial city.<\/p>\n

The surrounding land consisted of cultivated fields, orchards, and open pasture stretching toward the Passaic River. At the time, this portion of Paterson remained largely rural despite the rapid expansion of the city’s silk mills and manufacturing districts. City directories from the late 1850s list Charles E. Van Beuren (an alternate spelling then in common use) living on Broadway while other members of the family owned farms along Passaic Avenue.<\/p>\n

Architecture<\/h2>\n

The Van Buren House is an excellent example of a modest Greek Revival farmhouse<\/strong>, a style popular in New Jersey between 1830 and 1865.<\/p>\n

Notable features include:<\/p>\n