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The front elevation features Victorian-Gothic "icing" ornamentation. Also on the property is a log cabin built about 1850 and moved to the property from nearby Beards Mountain. The Pocohontas County Historical Society purchased the property for use as a museum in 1963. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1]
Oldest Dutch Colonial stone house in New York City, operated by the Greater Ridgewood Historical Society Voelker Orth Museum: Flushing: Queens: Historic house: Family home dating back to 1891 Wyckoff House: Canarsie: Brooklyn: Historic house: Dutch saltbox frame house dating back to 1652 Queens County Farm Museum: Glen Oaks: Queens: Farm ...
New York Jazz Museum in Manhattan; New York City Police Museum; New York Tattoo Museum in Staten Island; Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, closed in 2015; Ripley's Believe It or Not!, midtown Manhattan, 2007-2021; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex, opened in SoHo in 2008, closed in 2010; Sony Wonder Technology Lab, closed in 2016
This list of museums in New York is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
This list of museums on Long Island is a list of museums in Nassau County, New York and Suffolk County, New York. (Museums in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn, which are also physically located on Long Island, are found in List of museums in New York City). Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included. Also ...
Hancock House (Ticonderoga, New York) Hanford Mill; Haviland-Davison Grist Mill; Herkimer County Historical Society; Herkimer County Jail; Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum; Hobart Masonic Hall; Holland Land Office; Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County; House at 226 West Penn Street; Howland Cobblestone Store; Huguenot ...
Kelly became a member of the Jamestowne Society in 2007, [9] tracing her American lineage to Pocahontas and John Rolfe. [1] The Jamestowne Society is an educational, historical, and patriotic organization dedicated to discovering and recording the names of those early settlers, recording their deeds, and promoting the restoration of historical records and artifacts.
The Center for Brooklyn History was founded in 1863 by Henry Pierrepont (1808–1888) [6] as the Long Island Historical Society, with a charter from the New England Historical Society in Boston. [7] In 1985, the society changed its name to the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS).