HHT In the News

“Once you get people in the door, then you are engaging with the ‘housiness’ of these places: this is where people entertained, this is where people ate, this is where enslaved people lived, this is the fireplace that they fed all night long.”

Meredith Horsford, HHT Executive Director
Urban Omnibus: This Old House

“In preserving Dutch historic sites, I think it’s important that we’re not just telling the story of the Dutch who came here and built these houses. It’s really important for us to tell a more complete and robust story of history and think about other groups who were a part of that period of time.”

Meredith Horsford, HHT Executive Director
The Art Newspaper: A glimpse into New York City’s Dutch heritage 400 years later

“Our historic house caretakers are the unsung heroes in the stories of our houses.”

John Krawchuk, Former HHT Executive Director
New York Times: Quarantined in a Museum

Our Partners In the News

“Lewis Latimer was one of the very first African Americans to break the corporate glass ceiling… He was an early trailblazer for the traditionally marginalized by demonstrating that qualified people who all too often are victims of discrimination and denied opportunity can compete and excel, produce and perform, create and contribute as capably as anyone else.”

Hugh B. Price, Lewis Latimer House Chairman
New York Times: Long in the Shadows, the Latimer House Museum Gets a Glow-Up

“I wanted it to be a very safe place to talk about queer history and celebrate queer identity today.”

Victoria Munro, Alice Austen House Executive Director
New York Times: At This Staten Island Garden, the Plants Are All Queer

“The site has an agrarian past — we used to be a working farm. We already have beds that we grow things in, and we do a lot of programming that relates to growing food.”

Meredith Horsford, Former Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Executive Director
New York Times: How Museums Are Reaching Out to Their Local Communities

“Our ongoing mission is to educate the public about the Bowne-Parsons family and their history of activism, including John Bowne’s fight for religious freedom and the participation of family members in the Underground Railroad.”

Elise Helmers, Bowne House Executive Director
Queens Tribune: Flushing’s Bowne House hosts Underground Railroad event, landmark tour in celebration of Black History Month

“Historic Richmond Town is a brilliant resource for all Staten Islanders and all New Yorkers…Never more than now have we needed to understand our history, support each other, and move forward together. The experiential history lessons offered by Richmond Town on-line today, and in person soon, provide the rich opportunity to learn, grow, and celebrate our neighbors and ourselves.”

Laura Gentile, Historic Richmond Town President
SILive: Historic Richmond Town names new president of the living village

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