In 1975 Gertrude Ryder Bennett Williams had sought to deed the property to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, but the government failed to complete the acquisition.

[5] However, after years of proceedings, including public meetings, the re-mapping of the property as parkland (it was to be a Parks Department acquisition), approval by the local Community Board (which lowered the value of the deal by requiring the $2 million purchase price to include the contents of the house), and inclusion of the earmarked funds in the 2003-2004 city budget, the deal never came to fruition.

A plaque outside the homestead says:[7]This Dutch-American farmhouse is a quiet reminder that the Battle of Brooklyn, one of the biggest conflicts of the Revolutionary War, took place when Kings County was still mostly farm country.

The county boasted fewer than 4,000 inhabitants, one third of whom were slaves working on land owned by families descended from 17th-century Dutch immigrants.

When the Battle of Brooklyn began on August 27, 1776, these men may well have taken part in the attack that drove American defenders from the Battle Pass, in what is now Prospect Park, and nearly destroyed the army under command of George Washington.On October 14, 2021,the entire property was sold for $2.4 million dollars to "22nd Street Investors" according to City records.