Events

Step into history at one of the Upper Hudson Valley's finest historic house museums and gardens. Feature exhibit for 2026: "Road to Revolution: Leadership in 1776 and Beyond." Learn about the role the Revolution played in the lives of people at Ten Broeck Mansion and Albany County, and trace the changing leadership of the emerging […]

Immerse yourself in history! Join these special sequential tours, allowing you to visit three of Albany's finest historic sites exploring freedom and opportunity from the 1700s-1800s, and how immigrants and African Americans shaped our nation's ideas about freedom. Learn about the lives of enslaved persons, and the accomplishments and contributions of free persons of color […]

Archtober Newburgh is an annual, month long, all-free celebration of one of the Hudson Valley's most remarkable built environments, and the people keeping it alive. As the second-largest historic district in New York State, the birthplace of the historic preservation movement, and the home of the first publicly owned historic site in the United States, […]

The ordering of time 200 years ago was just as important as it is now, and regardless of one's social and economic standing, the ownership of a clock was a necessity as well as a status symbol. For the Cortland County resident in that period there were, remarkably enough, over 20 different area shelf clock […]