Archives for October 31, 2023

Funding provides the Lindenhurst Historical Society with an additional resource to support our overall conservation and preservation plan

Lindenhurst, NY – The Lindenhurst Historical Society is proud to announce the Society is a recent recipient of a NYSCA/GHHN Conservation Grant Program: Preservation Supplies Award.  Grant funds were utilized to purchase a variety of collection management supplies, chiefly archival grade storage boxes designed to safely store clothing, textiles and other artifacts.  The NYSCA/ GHHN Conservation Grant Program: Preservation Supplies and Site Assessment Grant Program is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.  Additional funding from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation supports projects from Long Island and New York City.

This year, the Lindenhurst Historical Society is celebrating its Diamond Jubilee Anniversary.   Founded in 1948 by residents that imagined not only a vibrant and robust Society of likeminded, community oriented visionaries who would perpetually foster the society’s core mission to preserve and celebrate the community’s rich and diverse history, but would continually seek and develop opportunities to conserve and protect the community’s historically valuable sites as well as its collection of historical objects, textiles, artworks and artifacts. 

“As stewards of this collection,” stated Lindenhurst Village Museum Director Marianne Guglieri, “the funding provides the Lindenhurst Historical Society with an additional resource to support our overall conservation and preservation plan and further enhance the goal of using proper collection management supplies to protect the collection.”

“From our inception, the Lindenhurst Historical Society has enjoyed a valuable and mutually advantageous partnership with the Inc. Village of Lindenhurst,” said Lindenhurst Village Historian Anna Jaeger, “and we continue to be united in a shared vision to preserve.”   Ms. Jaeger noted the partnership has produced three instances whereby buildings relevant to Lindenhurst’s founding and subsequent development as the 4^th largest village in New York State were protected from demolition and preserved as museums.  The museum buildings are all historically valuable in their own right but also provide intrinsic and germane exhibit space along with much needed storage for the Society’s collection of local artifacts, objects and historical items.  

The Lindenhurst Historical Society is proud to manage all three buildings as museums; The Lindenhurst Historical House Museumat 272 South Wellwood Avenue and at Irmisch Park on South Broadway, the 1901 Restored Long Island Railroad Depot and Freight House Museum and The Old Village Hall Museum.    Currently, the Historical House Museum and the Old Village Hall Museum are undergoing renovations, suspending museum exhibits and activities.  The pause has allowed the Society to concentrate on the collections conservation.  This Preservation Supplies Award contributes to that effort.

More information is available on the Lindenhurst Historical Society’s Facebook page – Breslau Lindy or by calling (631) 226-0209.

Pictured here Village Museum Director Marianne Guglieri (left) and Lindenhurst Village Historian Anna Jaeger (right).