The Peekskill Museum
The mission of the Museum is to collect, preserve, study, and interpret objects and documents pertaining to Peekskill and the surrounding area. Continue Reading..
The Herrick House
Designed by the famous architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and Bigelow & owned by Dwight Stiles Herrick, a prominent lawyer in Peekskill in the last century as his private home. His wife Sarah was the oldest daughter of another prominent Peekskillian John Simpson.
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Museum History
The Peekskill Museum was presented to the City of Peekskill by Mrs. Ida M. Adams by deed dated January 3, 1944. It is one of Peekskill's most famous Victorian houses. Continue Reading.....
The Peekskill Museum Photo Archive
The Photo Archive program is expected to get off the ground in 2010.
If you come to the museum in person, we will in many cases, return your precious image before you leave. If you need to mail them in,
please email us first with your requirements. Invoices and forms of payment are being worked on and we should soon see some improvement
in this area with order forms, payment methods etc.
The Peekskill Museum miscellaneous videos
We are creating videos of the inside, the outside of the museum. The outside is already here (above, under Photo Archive) and we are creating videos on the inside. Although the Museum views page contains some images, we're creating
other videos for your viewing pleasure. Clicking here will bring you to another page where you will choose and play the videos which most interest you. We only have one for now, but it is a beginning.
