HMVA Events Archive: 2020 to Present
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HMVA Summer in the City
(City of Kingston)
Saturday, June 15, 2024 10 AM
Meet up in Kingston Area Library's parking lot located on Green Street, Kingston, NY. This is just past the parking lot of the Hoffman House (about directly across from 175 Green Street for GPS purposes). We'll be able to leave our cars there all day.
Then we'll take it from there,
as we stroll the best preserved
17th century street plan in the whole United States!
(Ok I might be a little biased)
The plan is to make the plan up as we go!
BUT, we are promised an 18th Century "mystery house" cellar to rafter tour, and as time permits we'll stop at other points of interest along the way.
Assemble for lunch at 12:30 at the
Hoffman House
Restaurant and Tavern
94 North Front Street
Kingston NY 12401.
Tour Host: Rob 845 750 3074
Join us as we
Journey Back to Germantown
Saturday, May 18, 2024 10 AM
We begin at
The Palatine Parsonage
52 Maple Ave., Germantown NY
Lunch can be ordered locally and eaten at the parsonage.
After lunch we move on to
The Stone Jug
1940 HABS survey link on the Stone Jug: https://www.loc.gov/item/ny0503/
The Friends of Historic Germantown and Germantown History Department just had a condition assessment report done on the parsonage and are keen to tap the hive mind of the HMVA. The engineers who did the report will be there too, as well as FOHG folks.
Tour Host: Emily M. Majer
HMVA Study Tour
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Meadows Foundation Franklyn Township - Somerset County NJ
Sue Ann Derkach president 908-507-0325
10:45-12:45 Wyckoff-Garretson House 1730 & 1805, 215 South Middlebush Road, Somerset, NJ 08873
This is a restored Dutch Colonial that HVVA visited several times in the early 2000s during the renovation. Now we get to revisit to see it completed.
1 PM Lunch Corner Cafe & Grill, 1695 Amwell Rd, Somerset, NJ 08873
2:00-4:00 PM Van Duyn-Van Wickle House, dendro dated 1702/1720, 1289 Easton Ave., Somerset, NJ 07783
HVVA visited in the early 2000s. It is a rare Dutch colonial with intentionally exposed posts. It was structurally damaged by Hurricane Ida in 2021 and is currently closed to the general public. We have special permission to view the interior. Since the fate of this important house is in jeopardy, we should spend time here to properly photograph and maybe even measure the structure.
Tour Host: Carla 908-310-2505
Hudson Mohawk Vernacular Architecture
is pleased to present as part of the
Maggie MacDowell Lecture Series
Contextualizing Enslavement
at the William Brandow House
Join Greene County Historian Jonathan Palmer for a discussion of the legacy of Slavery at the William Brandow House in Athens, New York. This unique site, now preserved as part of a public nature preserve, presents a unique opportunity for historians to interpret the complex decline of chattel Slavery in New York State thanks to a preserved trove of family papers associated directly with this house and the Brandow family. An examination of these documents and their context will shed light on the difficulties of uncovering painful legacies and the importance of interpreting these legacies at public historic sites.
Join us at:
11:00 am on Saturday, March 16th
in the Performing Arts Center at Woodland Pond, 100 Woodland Pond Circle New Paltz, NY 12561
Everyone is invited to attend this free presentation.
Jonathan Palmer is the fifth Greene County Historian and has served in that role since 2021. He is a native of Athens, New York with a background in Archives and Information Science. He is currently employed as the Ulster County Archivist through the Ulster County Clerk's Office in their Records Management Unit.
HMVA Annual Meeting and Election
Saturday, February 17, 2024, 10:30 AM
Elmendorph Inn 7562 North Broadway (Rte. 9) Red Hook NY 12571
Gather at 10:30 AM at the historic Elmendorph Inn in Red Hook. Meeting called to order at 11:00 AM. Lunch at noon.
The Elmendorph Inn is the oldest building in the village of Red Hook, New York. It is located at the north corner of North Broadway and Cherry Street, a block north of the junction of US Route 9 and NY 199.
