Luis Moses Gomez's 1714 Marlboro trading post is cited as North America's oldest standing Jewish dwelling, layered with three centuries of rebuilding.
Luis Moses Gomez, a Sephardic Jewish merchant, built a fieldstone blockhouse and trading post along Jews Creek starting around 1714, expanding with his sons Jacob and Daniel to roughly 3,000 acres by 1723, a mill-and-lime-kiln operation that shipped goods down the Hudson to New York City. It's widely cited as the oldest standing Jewish dwelling in North America, and the ownership after Gomez is almost as layered as the man himself: Wolvert Ecker added a second floor of bedrooms after the Revolution and turned it into a meeting spot for local patriots, the Armstrong family added a kitchen wing in the mid-1800s, and in 1912-13 Arts and Crafts papermaker Dard Hunter built the mill you see today and produced what's considered the world's first one-man-made book on this site.
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