Formerly The Dutch Barn Preservation Society (DBPS), incorporating The Society for the Preservation of Hudson Valley Vernacular Architecture (HVVA)
Events

HMVA Events Archive: 2020 to Present

Fuller descriptions may be found in Newsletters

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.