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Architect’s Presentation, Historic Robert Jenkins House

The roof is on! Presentation, 1:30pm, by preservation architect Marilyn Kaplan detailing restoration work completed at the 1811 Historic Robert Jenkins House, 113 Warren St, Hudson. She will describe the new slate roof and work on parapets and other exterior masonry. Yet to be completed are updates to the house’s aging infrastructure, restoration of certain windows and exterior doors, and…

Open House and Architect’s Presentation

Sunday Aug 6, 2pm: Architect’s presentation, by Marilyn Kaplan of Preservation Architecture, about the project to repair, conserve, and restore the Historic Robert Jenkins House. Free and open to the public. The house will open for tours, 1-4pm, with the presentation at 2pm. Unfortunately, the building is not presently handicap-accessible. The Robert Jenkins House, located at 113…

Historic Robert Jenkins House Open House

Tours–no appointment needed–at the Historic Robert Jenkins House at 113 Warren Street in Hudson. Saturday, July 1st, 11am-2pm. Located in an Historic District, the 1811 house is on the National Register of Historic Places as Nationally Significant. Since 1900 it has featured a museum of local “books, pictures, relics and curios.” The house’s full public library, the…

Historic Robert Jenkins House Open House

The 1811 Historic Robert Jenkins House at 113 Warren Street in Hudson is on the National Register of Historic Places as Nationally Significant and is in an Historic District. It features a museum of local “books, pictures, relics and curios” and a genealogical and historical library.

Historic Robert Jenkins House

Historic Robert Jenkins House Open House

The Historic Robert Jenkins House at 113 Warren Street in Hudson holds the first of this year’s tour days on Saturday, March 25th, 1-4pm. The 1811 house, built by proprietor Robert Jenkins, is on the National Register of Historic Places as Nationally Significant and is in the Front Street-Parade Hill-Lower Warren Street Historic District. The house…

Constitution Day: The Story of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman

The Hendrick Hudson DAR Chapter will hold its first Speaker Series program of the 2022-2023 year at the Sheffield (MA) Historical Society. On September 17th in 1787 the US Constitution was signed in Philadelphia. Bearing direct relation to the Constitution is the celebrated Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman story, which transpired in Sheffield. Freeman’s bold actions, drawing…

Women’s History and Historic House Museums

The 2021 speaker series of the Hendrick Hudson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution continues on May 17th at 2:30pm. A thought-provoking Zoom presentation by an eminent historian, museum curator, and author will challenge you to think closely about house museums. What kinds of stories do they tell? What kinds do they leave…