Community Corner
For Nyack's Historical Society, There's No Place Like Home
The Historical Society of the Nyacks has a new home downtown
If you haven't already heard, the Historical Society of the Nyacks is clicking their heels and reciting "there is no place like home."
Now residing in the DePew House—right behind the library across from Memorial Park—the Historical Society is settled in downtown and ready for business.
"The Depew house gives us so many more opportunities to interact with the public," explained Linda Greene, Chair of Fundraising and Membership. "We can now showcase all that we have. The Depew House is a wonderful location in so many ways."
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Leontine Tempsky, Vice President of the Society, was busy last Saturday setting up for their open house and was ear to ear smiles as her guests arrived.
"Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had donations of shoes and hats that were purchased in the mills that used to be in Nyack?" Tempsky pondered. "We could hang them on the walls."
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In addition to the shoes and hats that the Historical Society hopes are donated, there are many artifacts, archives and book collections already on display at the DePew House. Hanging on the wall is a quilt with names of 50 women and girls from the area. This quilt somehow ended up at a thrift shop in Cape Cod—fortunately, the shop manager recognized the Rockland County names, knew the quilt was a treasure and returned it to the Nyack community.
Other items currently displayed at the DePew House are a piano made in Nyack’s Tallman piano factory and a sewing machine from the Wilcox and Gibbs Factory on Cedar Hill Avenue.
On June 15, members of the Historical Society are invited to a day trip to the Tenement Museum and a neighborhood walking tour of historic Lower East Side sites. For more information on this event contact, Betty Gaeta at (845) 358-2765 or at abgaeta@verizon.net.
To become a member of the Historical Society, contact Judy Martin at (845) 358-7797 or email memebership@nyackhistory.org.
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Historical Society of the Nyacks
P.O. Box 850, Nyack, New York 10960
845.418.4430 or e-mail
