Albany, New York
Incorporated in 1942, the association preserves Albany's history, most recently with the stewardship of and preservation of the Ten Broeck Mansion.The 209-year-old Ten Broeck Mansion is the headquarters of the Albany County Historical Association (ACHA), an organization that helps preserve and...
Chazy, New York
Miner purchased the 1824 stone house in the early 1920s as a place to turn her collection into a museum.Visitors can tour three floors of period rooms containing furnishings and artwork of the Colonial Revival Movement, which flourished in the 19th Century. Collections include a display of...
Fishkill, New York
The Scottish-style castle on the Hudson River was built in the early 1900s when purchased by David Bannerman.David Bannerman purchased the island from the Taft family in 1900 as a safe storage site for the weapons he collected on behalf of his business. Mr. Bannerman began construction on a...
Camp Smith, New York
When completed in 1924, the 1,641-foot-long edifice was the largest suspension bridge in the world. The Tudor-style tollhouse provides tourist information for Bear Mountain’s parks.As the oldest of NYSBA’s bridges, Bear Mountain Bridge was the first vehicular river crossing between New York...
Bennington, Vermont
The tallest structure in Vermont commemorates the Battle of Bennington, a battle that lead to the turning point in the Revolutionary War.Soaring more than 300 feet above the lovely streets of Old Bennington, a striking stone monument marks the site of a critical military supply depot. In the late...
Eagle Bridge, New York
This was the site of the August 16, 1877 Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington.At this site, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts militia under General John Stark rebuffed a British attempt led by Colonel Friedrich Baum to capture American storehouses in Bennington to restock their depleting...
Bennington, Vermont
The Bennington Museum features fine art, decorative art, and historical artifacts closely related to the Vermont area.The 28,000-square-foot museum, which owns more than 60,000 artifacts from southern Vermont and the surrounding area, contains the Grandma Moses Gallery, the largest collection of...
Garrison, New York
Built by States Dyckman in 1808, this historic home is a fine example of the Federal style of American architecture.Boscobel is situated on a bluff on the east bank of the Hudson River opposite the United States Military Academy at West Point. Visitors are invited to tour the house museum and...
Coxsackie, New York
After purchasing land from the Katskill Indians in 1662, Dutch colonist Pieter Bronck built a one-room home with large beams and wide floor boards that still stand today.The home that Bronck built in 1663 is the oldest home in upstate New York. The complex today is made up of the 1738 brick house,...
Ballston Spa, New York
The museum promotes a deeper understanding and appreciation of Saratoga County's past through educational programs, innovative exhibits and more.The museum contributes to the cultural life and prosperity of the county by preserving and enhancing collections, programs, and our historic structure. In...
Campbell Hall, New York
Visitors can step back in time as they roam the 120 acres complete with the fourth oldest stone house in the county. The site also boasts the only standing New World Dutch Barn.Built in 1722, the house was once home to William Bull, a stonemason builder, and his wife Sarah Wells, pioneer maiden to...
Troy, New York
The 19th-century iron works and industrial complex, wedged between the Hudson River and Wynantskil Creek, housed the Burden Water Wheel, the most powerful vertical water wheel of its kind ever built.An exhibit on Greater Troy's industrial history is housed in the former office of the Burden Iron...
Katonah, New York
The 90-acre former estate of Walter Rosen hosts world-class music concerts year-round. The mansion contains rooms imported from European palaces and a lavish collection of art.The Rosen House, built around a central courtyard, is the former summer home of Caramoor's founders Lucie Bigelow and...
Plattsburgh, New York
The Champlain Valley Transportation Museum traces the history of transportation in the valley region from the earliest canoes to what was once the most expensive car in America.Located on the grounds of the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base, the museum contains examples of vehicles, boats, and...
Glens Falls, New York
The Chapman Historical Museum presents the history of the Glens Falls community and its connection to the Adirondack region. It contains one of the nation's largest Seneca Ray Stoddard collections.Located in the 1865 Victorian Delong House, the museum focuses on the history of Glens Falls and the...
Addison, Vermont
For more than 7,500 years, the jutting shoreline known as Chimney Point has been a strategic settlement for peoples occupying the Champlain Valley. Chimney Point on Lake Champlain in Vermont is one of the earliest, mostly intensely settled, and most strategic sites in the Champlain Valley, with...
Germantown, New York
Clermont State Historic Site includes a visitor's center, carriage trails, formal gardens and exhibition galleries along with the renovated mansion, home to seven generations of the historic Livingston family.Clermont became the home of the historic Livingston family in 1728 when Robert Livingston...
Highland Falls, New York
A part of West Point, the island is most famous for the Great Chain that was placed across the Hudson during the Revolutionary War and the Warner family who lived there during the 19th century.In 1778, less than halfway through the Revolutionary War, the Americans were able to forge a huge iron...
Renesselaer, New York
Dutch for "crow's wood", this historic home was built in the early 18th century by Hendrick Van Rensselaer, grandson of the First Patroon,This museum depicts colonial New Netherland history in the upper Hudson Valley. Generations of the Rensselaer family have remodeled the home, each adding...
Crown Point, New York
During the French and Indian War, Ft. Fredric served as a critical French Bastion guarding against British invasions to the north. Destroyed by the retreating French in 1759, the British occupied the peninsula and eventually built a new and much larger fort adjacent to the old one. During the...
High Falls, New York
The museum displays nearly 4,000 objects from the Delaware & Hudson Canal's construction, and maintains a walking trail to five of the original canal's locks.Nearly 4,000 artifacts maps, models, paintings, and documents relating to the canal’s 185-year history are on display in the 19th-...
Albany, New York
During World War II 563 Destroyer Escorts battled Nazi U-Boats on the North Atlantic protecting convoys of men and material. Today, only one of these ships remains afloat in the United States: the USS Slater.Moored on the Hudson River in Albany, New York, the USS Slater has undergone an...
Tappan, New York
Known as being home to George Washington in 1780, this site is the oldest surviving structure in Rockland County, and an outstanding example of Colonial Dutch architecture in the Hudson Valley.George Washington was invited to stay at the home by the DeWint family, first during August 8th to the...
Nyack, New York
Artists still find inspiration at the quaint Queen Anne home where Edward Hopper spent his formative years. Workshops, exhibits, and musical performances are held here year-long.The house of Edward Hopper’s youth was built in 1858 by the artist's maternal grandfather, John Smith. Smith’...
Hyde Park, New York
The cottage was Eleanor Roosevelt's political headquarters and permanent home after the death of her husband. It is the only National Historic Site dedicated to an American First Lady.Eleanor Roosevelt chose Val-Kill for her retreat, her office, her home, and her "laboratory" for social...
New York, New York
Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty were the first sights of a new country for many immigrants to America.Opened on January 1, 1892, Ellis Island became the nation's premier federal immigration station. In operation until 1954, the station processed over 12 million immigrant steamship passengers...
Phoenicia, New York
Early-20th-century photographs, films, and equipment at 127-year-old Phoenicia station present the history of railroads and their role in the Catskill region’s development.Visitors can tour the inside of a Delaware and Hudson Railway baggage car, or view the restoration of a 19th-century locomotive...
Elizabethtown, New York
The society is dedicated to fostering a knowledge and appreciation of Essex County by collecting tangible reminders of the past.Through its museum, research library, and public programs, the society seeks to provide opportunities for people to encounter human kin across time to make connections...
Hudson, New York
The museum depicts the history of firefighting in a moving tribute to those brave men and women who have served their communities. Visitors can observe magnificent floor-to-ceiling displays of historic paintings, dramatic photos, badges, helmets, torches, and antique toys.At the 51st State Firemen'...
Fort Lee, New York
Just south of the George Washington Bridge, this 33-acre river fortress site gained significance during Gen. Washington’s preparations in 1776 to hamper British invasion of NYC through the Hudson.In the southern portion of the Historic Park, winding paths lead past a reconstructed blockhouse and to...
Fort Montgomery, New York
On October 6, 1777, this was the scene of a fierce Revolutionary War battle for control of the Hudson River.Visitors today can tour the remains of the 14-acre fortification, perched on a cliff overlooking the magnificent Hudson. On October 6, 1977, British, Loyalist and Hessian forces attacked Fort...
Ticonderoga, New York
Exhibits at the fort depict the natural and strategic geography of the historic landscape of the Ticonderoga peninsula during both the French & Indian and Revolutionary Wars.Fort Ticonderoga is one of the nation's oldest museums and boasts world class collections – including the largest...
Lake George, New York
Site of the infamous "Fort William Henry Massacre," the reconstructed fort displays military artifacts from the French and Indian War.Built in 1755 during the French and Indian War as a staging point for sorties against French Fort Carillon, the British stronghold fell to French forces in 1757 and...
Marlboro, New York
This historic site is the earliest surviving Jewish residence in North America and has been continuously inhabited for more than 280 years.In 1714, Luis Moses Gomez, who had fled from the Spanish inquisition, purchased 6,000 acres of land along the Hudson Highlands where several Indian trails...
New York, New York
Located just a half-mile from Manhattan, the 172-acre island served as a naval fortress, military prison, and supply base for the United States between 1783 and 1996.Over the years, the island has served as the backdrop for a number of historic events. In 1986, it was the setting for the relighting...
Gansevoort, New York
On July 23, 1885, shortly after completing his memoirs at the four-room Adirondack cottage, President Ulysses S. Grant died of throat cancer. It was in Joseph W. Drexel's Adirondack cottage that General Ulysses S. Grant died of throat cancer on July 23, 1885. President Grant arrived at the cottage...
Troy, New York
Completed in 1827, the Federal white marble home was originally a wedding gift from businessman William Howard to his daughter, Betsey, and the Cluetts bought the home 60 years later.The marble-faced structure known as the Hart-Cluett House is one of the finest intact houses of the late Federal...
Campbell Hall, New York
Built in 1769, this old farmhouse has been converted into a museum, reflecting the lives of the Bull-Jackson family spanning over 200 years.This museum depicts what life was like on a Hudson Valley farm in the 1830's. Hill-Hold was built with wide plank floors, handsome paneling and huge fireplaces...
Albany, New York
The Van Rensselaer-Rankin family amassed several lifetimes and several households worth of personal papers and possessions during their 176 years of occupancy at Cherry Hill.In April of 1963 when Emily Rankin, the last surviving family member, passed away, the house and its contents became the...
Morristown, New Jersey
Stephen Vail, owner of Speedwell Ironworks, purchased 275 acres here in 1733 to build a home, farm, and factory.Today, seven-and-a-half acres of the mid 19th-century original estate remain and contain a reconstructed factory building, the facility where Vail and Samuel Morse first tested the...
New City, New York
The museum's extensive archival collections and on-site living history demonstrations provide a glimpse of 19th-century colonial life in Rockland County.Comprised of four structures, a 7,200-square-foot museum of Rockland history and three restored farm structures, the 1832 Blauvelt House, barn,...
Hyde Park, New York
The Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site contains "Springwood", the lifelong home of America's only 4-term President. Also on the site is the Presidential Library and Museum, operated by the National Archives."All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on...
Athens, New York
The still-operational, 46-foot-tall Second Empire lighthouse, located between Athens and Hudson, guided cargo ships along the busy Hudson River beginning in 1874.Construction was begun in early 1873, and the lighthouse was completed and put into operation on November 14, 1874. The facility served...
Kingston, New York
Located in the Historic Rondout Waterfront, the Hudson River Maritime Museum honors the maritime history of the Hudson River, its tributaries and the industries dependent on the river.With a collection comprised of paintings, prints, photographs, vessel blueprints, artifacts, ship models and more,...
Yonkers, New York
The two-floor, restored 1876 mansion contains an extensive collection of 19th- and 20th- century American art, including works by Hudson River School painters Jasper Cropsey and Albert Beirstadt.Contemporary collections spill into the 15,000-square-foot addition. The Andrus Planetarium is also on...
Albany, New York
Compiled of several historic sites throughout the Hudson River Valley area, the area resources exhibit the historical and contemporary roles of freedom, nature, and commerce in New York.Revolutionary War stories, famous residences, scenic parks and gardens, and landscape interpretations all...
Glens Falls, New York
Paper mill owners Louis and Charlotte Hyde furnished their Italian Renaissance house with 2,800 paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts by Cézanne, Picasso, van Gogh, Eakin, Homer, and Ryder.The Museum offers a world class collection of objects that span the history of western art from the...
Grand Isle, Vermont
The one-and-a-half-story, 18th-century log cabin is one of the oldest of its kind still standing in the U.S. and is now a 500-square-foot museum.This one-and-a half story structure was built by Jedediah Hyde, Jr. circa 1783. Made of 14- to 18-inch diameter cedar logs, the cabin consists of one 20'...
East Durham, New York
The museum is dedicated to recording and presenting the history and heritage of the Irish in America by using changing exhibits, a research library, family programs, and lectures.The museum develops and presents exhibitions and sponsors activities to educate Irish Americans about their unique...
Howes Cave, New York
The Iroquois Indian Museum is devoted to the history and culture of the six-nation Iroquois Confederacy.Located in a building inspired by the traditional longhouse, the museum contains a vast library of original 17th- and 18th- century papers and a comprehensive collection of modern Iroquois art....