Historic House to Become Jersey City Historical Museum
Located at 298 Academy Street in Jersey City is an old stone building that early residents dubbed the Apple Tree […]
historic houses
Searching for a usable past in the Hudson Valley
I passed a wonderful late June week traveling the Hudson River Valley from the Vanderbilt estate in Hyde Park, New York, south along alternating banks of the Hudson to the Edward Hopper house and museum in Nyack. In addition to the 3rd generation Vanderbilts with their (inherited) railroad fortune, my husband and I explored the architectural and material legacy of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt, financial speculator Jay Gould, West Point, the Loyalist and slaveholding Philips family, 3 generations of Rockefellers, artist/inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, the writer Washington Irving, and artists Edward and Josephine N. Hopper.
Busta Myth
The other day I was preparing handbooks for the newest members of my Board of Directors and my eye fell […]
New Ideas for Online Giving
This time of year is known for many things: holidays, the beginning of winter, and a barrage of end-of-year fundraising […]
An Ode to the Tenement Museum
This week, Nina Simon at Museum 2.0 wrote about institutions with a public service perspective – museums that have transformed […]
Urban Farming at a Historic Germantown Homestead
This season marks the fifth year of an urban farming experiment at Wyck Historic House and Gardens. The 18th-century homestead, […]