Historic House Trust
Script error: No such module "Distinguish". Template:Use mdy dates The Historic House Trust of New York City was formed in 1989 as a public-private partnership with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation[1] to preserve the historic houses located within New York City parks,[2] although most of the houses were not originally city-owned.[3] The Trust works with the individual houses to restore and promote the houses as a means of educating residents and visitors about the social, economic and political history of New York City and cast urban history in a new light.[4] The Trust includes 23 historic sites, with 18 operating as museums and attracting 729,000 annual visitors.[2]
Properties
Template:Side box The Historic House Trust includes properties in each of New York City's five boroughs,[5] and there is a house for every period in the City's history, depending on one's scheme of dividing history.[4] A number of the properties have live-in caretakers to help prevent vandalism and other problems.[6]
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| Alice Austen House Museum | File:Alice Austen House.jpg | Template:Dts | Staten Island Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
Home of photographer Alice Austen. Now a museum. |
| Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum | File:Bartow-pell-mansion.jpg | Template:Dts | The Bronx Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
Exemplifies a type of early 19th-century country living in the Pelham Bay Park area. |
| The Conference House | File:Conference-house-staten-island.jpg | Template:Dts | Staten Island Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
The Staten Island Peace Conference held here on September 11, 1776 unsuccessfully attempted to end the American Revolutionary War. This National and New York City Landmark is the only surviving pre-Revolutionary manor house in New York City. |
| Dyckman Farmhouse Museum | File:Dyckman House 2007.jpg | Template:Dts | Manhattan Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
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| Gracie Mansion | File:Gracie-mansion-2007.jpg | Template:Dts | Manhattan Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
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| Historic Richmond Town | File:Richmond County, New York former courthouse.jpg | Template:Dts | Staten Island Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
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| King Manor Museum | File:King Manor NW jeh.jpg | Template:Dts | Queens Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
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| Kingsland Homestead | File:Kingsland Homestead north jeh.jpg | Template:Dts | Queens Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
Home to the remains of a weeping beech tree that was one of New York City's two "living landmarks"[7] and the 'matriarch' of such trees in the United States[8] |
| Lewis H. Latimer House | File:Lewis Latimer house 34-31 137th St Flushing jeh.jpg | Template:Dts | Queens Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
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| Lefferts Historic House | File:Prospect Park Brooklyn Feb 2019 110.jpg | Template:Dts | Brooklyn Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
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| The Little Red Lighthouse | File:Little red lighthouse.jpg | Template:Dts | Manhattan Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
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| Hendrick I. Lott House | File:Hendrick I Lott 1940 E36 jeh.JPG | Template:Dts | Brooklyn Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
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| Merchant's House Museum | File:WTM tony 0079.jpg | Template:Dts | Manhattan Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
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| Morris-Jumel Mansion | File:Morris-jumel.jpg | Template:Dts | Manhattan Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
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| The Old Stone House | File:Old-stone-house-brooklyn.JPG | Template:Dts | Brooklyn Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
A 1930 reconstruction with some original materials of the Vechte-Cortelyou House which was destroyed in 1897. The site was part of the Battle of Long Island. It also housed the predecessors to the Brooklyn Dodgers at one time. |
| Edgar Allan Poe Cottage | File:Edgar-allen-poe-cottage.JPG | Template:Dts | The Bronx Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
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| Queens County Farm Museum | File:QFM barn jeh.jpg | Template:Dts | Queens Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
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| Seguine Mansion | File:Seguine-burke-mansion.JPG | Template:Dts | Staten Island Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
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| Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre | File:Swedish cottage CP snow jeh.JPG | Template:Dts | Manhattan Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
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| Valentine-Varian House | File:Valentine-varian-house.JPG | Template:Dts | The Bronx Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
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| Van Cortlandt House Museum | File:Van-cortland-house-bronx.JPG | Template:Dts | The Bronx Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
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| The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum | File:Wyckoff-house.jpg | Template:Dts | Brooklyn Script error: No such module "Coordinates". |
History
In 1988, the City Parks department established a Historic House Office to preserve the 23 City-owned historic house-museums located in City parks. This office gave way to the Historic House Trust of New York City in 1989, funded by private donations,[9] as well as grants,[10] with the goal of each house becoming a professionally accredited museum.[11] In an effort to increase awareness of the program during its first year of operation, the Trust developed a so-called passport program wherein visitors would receive stamps each time they visited one of the houses. If a visitor went to all 23 properties, they would receive an audience with the Mayor.[12] HHT's passport program was brought back in 2008 as a method of commemorating the Trust's 20th anniversary.[13]
The Trust also holds events such as the Historic Houses Festival, during which all the houses are open with different events at each, in order to raise awareness.[9] New properties are added to the Trust when they come under city control if private care-taking or ownership has not succeeded,[14] although the contents of the home may remain under private ownership.[15]
References
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External links
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