HMVA Events Archive: 2020 to Present
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HMVA Holiday Dinner
Saturday, December 14, 2024, 4pm
Kingston, Ulster County
Join fellow HMVA Members at the historic Benjamin Ten Broeck House 1019 Flatbush Road, Kingston NY 12401
Come Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
You must RSVP by Dec. 11th to info@hmvarch.org or text name and number of guests to Rob at: 845-750-3074
$20 per person payable that evening. You're invited to bring a bottle to share.
Hosted by Rob Sweeney and Eddie Catuzzo
HMVA November Tour
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Ghent, Columbia County
Meet at 324 Leggett Road, Ghent at 10 am
We will be touring three later 18th-century houses within a few miles of each other, with a break for lunch at Quinnie's.
Host: Emily Majer
HMVA October Study Tour
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Tour of Pittstown and Hoosick, Rensselaer County and Buskirk, Washington County
This month we'll be returning to Pittstown, which we last visited in October of 2016 as the HVVA.
Host: Wally Wheeler
Tour starts at 11 am
11 am: 1892 Buskirk-West Hoosick Road, Pittstown Parking is between 32 Joslin Lane and 1892 Buskirk-West Hoosick Road, across the street from 1892, in a field off of a farm road. A Honda Fit will be located in the spot near where you should park
12:00 pm: Guiden shop barn at 1854 Buskirk-West Hoosick Road, a short walk from 1892 Buskirk-West Hoosick Road. If there's time, the Moseley barn is located at 709 Nickmush Road.
1 pm: Lunch at Brown's Brewing Company, 50 Factory Hill Road, North Hoosick (alternatively identified as in Hoosick Falls).
On your way to the afternoon's buildings, you'll pass over Buskirk's Bridge. It is the only inter-county covered bridge in New York State, and connects the two halves of Buskirk, divided by the Hoosick River.
2:15 pm: The Ziehm Sunburst House 208 Schweninger Road, Buskirk.
3 pm: The Ziehm Dutch barn about one-eighth of a mile west of the house, on the same side of the road.
Tour handout The tour handout contains details on each stop and a map of the tour.
HMVA September Study Tour
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Brush and Barn Tour
Host: Bob Hedges
Tour starts at 10 am
Graham Brush log house 2989 Church St, Pine Plains NY Access through the town parking lot on North Main.
Then on to the Grist Mill located just north of the Graham Brush house on North Main St. also in Pine Plains.
Lunch at Cider Brothers Restaurant on 1215 Route 199, Red Hook, NY https://www.ciderbrosroadhouse.com/
After lunch we will visit a pre-revolutionary Dutch Barn at 149 Brooklyn Heights Road, a short distance from the eatery.
ATTN: Bring your own lunch and drink!
Palatine Tour, 20 July 2024
Meet up at the church from 9:45-10am on Saturday at the
10 - 11:00 Palatine Church
www.oldpalatinechurch.org NY-5 & Palatine Church Rd Fort Plain, NY 13339
11 - 12:30 General Cochran Farm Barn (only)
Rt 5, St. Johnsville
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch and Fort Klock
Dutch barn and fortified homestead www.fortklockrestoration.org
Lunch needs to be a bring-your-own.
2:00 - 3:00 Nellis Tavern
www.palatinesettlementsociety.org Rt 5, St. Johnsville.
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.
