Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1920 — Old Dwelling Now a Theater. [ARTICLE]

Old Dwelling Now a Theater.

The Sip manor, built in 1666, has been sold and will be razed to make fray for a moving picture theater. The manor stands at Bergen avenue and Newkirk street, Jersey City, and is said to be the oldest structure in this part of the world, a New York correspondent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch writes. The site for the manor was granted on January 2, 1662, by Potrus Styvesant to Nicholos Varleth and Balthazar Bayard. In 1776, Lord Cornwallis and a troop of British infantry passed through what was then Bergen and the English commander slept In the Sip manor that night When Lafayette visited Colvarick, in Bergen, he planted two elm trees near the Sip manor. The old dwelling was erected of stones gathered in the neighborhood and filled In with yellow clay and rubble. The place has been improved from time to time, but the original walls stand today as they were wheh. built