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Photograph of Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop Homestead
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop Homestead

Built in 1890 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Dukes County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · built in 1890, Victorian architecture.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Listed as. Vanderhoop, Edwin DeVries, Homestead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 35 South Rd., Aquinnah
  • When was it listed? September 2006
  • Category. building
  • When was it built? 1890
  • Architectural style. Victorian architecture
  • National Register reference number. 06000784 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1887 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop Homestead, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop Homestead, surveyed 1887

Maps showing this location

11 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Gay Head Light0.4 miles2017
Gay Head-Aquinnah Town Center Historic District (Boundary Increase)1.2 miles2001
Gay Head-Aquinnah Town Center Historic District1.2 miles1999
Barn House5.3 miles2011

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06000784 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dukes CountyAll 23 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.