Brooklyns historic Hendrick I. Lott House stands out from other abodes in Marine Park, a Kings County neighborhood known for its skinny, single-family shingle houses and brick row houses that stack up next to each other like soldiers, like the one Peter Clemenza lived in. Today, the Lott House is one of the oldest Dutch colonial homes in all of New York City. The farmhouse was built in 1720, before slavery was abolished in New York in 1827enslaved, immigrant, and Indigenous workers once toiled there. The farmhouse is named after the Lott family. It was situated on a property that once spanned over 200 acres. According to Historic House Trust New York City, the Lotts freed their slaves in 1805 and the house may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad.Soon, the Lott House will be open to the public as a fully operational cultural venue. Chrysalis Archeology is helping restore the building.Exterior renovations to the ground were carried out in 2013. This latest round will make the interiors equipped for modern museum needs. (Courtesy Friends of theLottHouse)The new museum will center is exhibitions and programming on the history of the surrounding neighborhood, as well as the Lott family, marking Marine Parks first premier cultural destination. The Lott House was built in more than 300-years ago, a time when Brooklyn wasnt Brooklyn per se, but rather a disparate set of villages founded by Dutch and English settlers. Brooklyns original villages were: Breuckelen, New Amersfoort, Midwout, Boswick, and Gravesend. Lott House was in the Gravesend section.Lott House circa 1915 (Courtesy Friends of theLottHouse)Descendants of the Lott family occupied the farmhouse from 1720 until 1989, when they sold it, throwing the building into uncertainty. Friends of the Lott House, a group of architects and community members, formed in the 1990s to save the place. New York City bought Lott House in 2002, and carried out exterior and renovations there in 2013.The next renovations will take place inside and outside the building. Infrastructure improvements will preserve Lott Houses historic details while also modernizing and stabilizing its foundational elements, Friends of the Lott House shared. The Lott Houses electricity, plumbing, air conditioning, and accessibility will all be upgraded.The interiors need significant improvements. (Courtesy Friends of theLottHouse)Alyssa Loorya, Friends of the LottHouse president and principal of Chrysalis Archeology, said the Lott Houses transformation into a full throttle museum is a long time coming. Its finally time, it has been over 10 years since the exterior work was completed and we cannot wait for this next phase to start, Loorya said in a statement.We are eager to open the doors and invite the community in to share in the rich history, Loorya added, not only the history of the Lott family, but of the community and south Brooklyn; its a New York City story.