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Dyckman Farmhouse: Guided Tour with Museum Admission

Guided Tours are included with Museum Admission. Please reserve your spot for the Guided Tour here AND your Museum Admission ticket here. Guided Tour and Museum Admission tickets are also avaliable for purchase day-of at our front desk.

Participants will learn about those who have shaped the stories of Inwood, including the Lenape, Revolutionary War soldiers, the Dyckman Family, free and enslaved African people, and present-day residents of Northern Manhattan.

15 spots available for each tour.

First come, first serve.

Dyckman Farmhouse: Back Porch History 1776 – A Defining Moment in the Story of Northern Manhattan

Back Porch History: 1776 – A Defining Moment in the Story of Northern Manhattan with Don Rice

Join us for a free, in-person lecture about the American Revolution and Northern Manhattan history at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum! Nearly 250 years ago, in November 1776, Dyckman was consumed by warfare. Thousands of British and Hessian soldiers attacked the hillsides and overwhelmed the American defenses there. For the next seven years, occupying forces sucked the area dry, leaving behind a countryside devoid of natural resources and pockmarked with wrecked farmsteads and roads. It was a defining moment in Inwood’s past. Using primary sources and rare images, we’ll relive the events that led up to the battle of Fort Washington in 1776.

Come learn about the Dyckman family’s role in trying to protect the neighborhood and their home, and discover if anything still remains from those tumultuous times.

RSVP Required –  Register on Eventbrite!

DonRice was board president of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance from 2016-2025. In 2009, he founded the “Lost Inwood” series of popular local history talks and almost a decade later, in 2019, Rice co-authored a book of the same name with fellow local historian Cole Thompson. He’s lived with his family in North Manhattan for more than 25 years and is retired from a career in the Broadway Music field.

WHCO & Dyckman Farmhouse: Summer Picnic Concert – Milad Daniari & friends

WHCO’s principal bass player Milad Daniari is joined by friends for a fun and relaxing afternoon of music at the historic Dyckman Farmhouse Museum. Bathrooms are available onsite. Nearby you can explore the newly rebuilt Inwood Library as well as the Inwood Butterfly Sanctuary and many, many shops and restaurants on Broadway!

These concerts are free and open to the public. Guests are encouraged to bring their own picnic, blankets, or chairs, and we kindly ask that you help maintain the cleanliness and care of our shared public spaces.

Rain location: Our Saviour’s Atonement 178 Bennett Avenue

Dyckman Farmhouse: Jamaicanisms – Jhanique Lovejoy & Kat Thompson in Conversation

Join us for Jamaicanisms: Jhanique Lovejoy & Kat Thompson in Conversation, a talk centered on family archives as living repositories of Black history,  inviting the community into a dialogue about memory, storytelling, and archival ethics, situating domestic archives.

Hosted by Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, the conversation features Jhanique Lovejoy and Kat Thompson discussing Lovejoy’s exhibition Soon Come, Likkle More and their respective artistic practices as Jamaican-American artists. Through photography and textiles, Lovejoy and Thompson examine Black memory, family histories, and the material traces of the Jamaican diaspora.

Cost: Free.  RSVP Required: register on Eventbrite!

Jhanique Lovejoy (b. 2001) is a New York imagemaker whose practice engages with multiplicity through the lens of race and culture. Lovejoy is known for her deeply intimate portrayals of her relationships as a queer Jamaican-American artist, encompassing both familial and romantic connections. Utilizing alternative processes, collage, and insights from her musicological studies, she explores themes of family archives, love, and the preservation of Black family history. 

Kat Thompson (b. 1991) is a lens-based artist and educator based in Virginia. Her interdisciplinary practice spans photography, video, textiles, sculptural collage, and installation. Through layering and material juxtaposition, she examines how images and objects function as vessels for memory, history, and identity, with a particular focus on the African Diaspora. Her work considers the construction of Black selfhood, exploring how cultural memory, ancestral inheritance, and lived experience converge across personal and collective narratives.