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This lecture is in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Dutch colony that would become New York. In 1624 Africans enslaved by the Dutch West India Company constructed a fort and a town on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Two years later, the remote outpost became the capital of the Dutch North American colony of New Netherland. The settlement grew, and within a decade, its frontier pushed eastward onto what the Dutch called 't Lange Eylandt into present-day Brooklyn and Queens. By the 1660s, Kings County was home to a number of rural Dutch farming communities, while Queens County was settled by groups of English dissenters. In this New Netherland hinterland, Dutch, English, and Huguenot craft traditions converged resulting in a hybridized regional style. Surviving examples of early Long Island architecture and decorative arts provide evidence of the various cultural influences that operated in the region. Although Long Island's Dutch colonial history was brief, the Dutch left an imprint on the region's material culture and domestic architecture that endured well beyond English conquest in 1664.