The Amrita Clubhouse If you wanted to be a part of a social gathering (something outside of your immediate family), there were plenty of clubs to join in the City of Poughkeepsie during the 19th centur [...]

Frederick Douglass Comes to Poughkeepsie By now, you have most certainly heard of Juneteenth, our new federal holiday that celebrates the emancipation of African American slaves here in the United Stat [...]

Take a Look Inside! One of the requests that we get here in the Local History room sounds something like, “Hey, I just bought this old building and want to know if you’ve got any old photos of the insi [...]

Trolley Time! The year is 1900, and you are sailing up the Hudson River on a dayliner steamship bound for Poughkeepsie. Perhaps you are on your way to one of the many schools to attend, or you wish to [...]

Henry Livingston Sr. - Poughkeepsie Enslaver The name of Livingston is well known in the Hudson Valley. One can travel up and down both sides of the river and find residences or evidence of actions of [...]

Poughkeepsie: City of Nursing Schools If you wanted to learn how to become a nurse in Poughkeepsie at the turn of the last century, you'd have had a few places to choose from. But before we look at tho [...]

The Poughkeepsie Seer - Andrew Jackson Davis Do you ever question why we are really here? What is the meaning of life? (Not the famous Monty Python film, we mean the actual meaning of life!) Have you e [...]

The Poughkeepsie Community Theatre As far as recent memory can serve, there has always been a bit of a separation between Vassar College and its hometown of Poughkeepsie. However, there have always bee [...]

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie - Putnam Hall School As we have mentioned in previous blog entries, Poughkeepsie was once known as "the City of Schools." There were lots of schools around [...]

The Poughkeepsie Yacht Club The weather is steadily improving, making the river look more and more appealing. If you have even been sailing, you know how lovely it can be and how it almost transports y [...]

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie - 140 Academy Street For those of you who missed our recent program on historic houses of the Hudson Valley: fear not! You can find it on our YouTube page, [...]

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie - Glen Eden School As you might have read in previous blog entries, lots of interesting buildings that once stood in Poughkeepsie have now been lost to tim [...]