New - York Historical Society - wikipedia New - York Historical Society Entrance The Rapalje Children, John Durand, 1768. Collection of the New - York Historical Society The New - York Historical Society is an American history museum and library located in New York City at the corner of 77th Street and Central Park West in Manhattan, founded in 1804 as New York 's first museum. The New - York Historical Society presents exhibitions, public programs, and research that explore the rich history of New York and the nation. The New - York Historical Society Museum & Library has been at its present location since 1908. The granite building was designed by York & Sawyer in a classic Roman Eclectic style. A renovation of the landmark building was completed in November 2011 that made it more open to the public, provided space for an interactive children 's museum, and accomplished other changes to enhance access to its collections. Louise Mirrer has been the president of the Historical Society since 2004. She was previously Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the City University of New York. Beginning in 2005, the museum presented a groundbreaking two - year exhibit on Slavery in New York, its largest theme exhibition in 200 years on a topic which it had never addressed before. It included an art exhibit by artists invited to use museum collections in their works. The Society generally focuses on the developing city center on Manhattan Island, and the Long Island Historical Society was founded in 1863. It was later renamed as the Brooklyn Historical Society, located in the borough across the East River. This borough was consolidated into the `` City of Greater New York '' in 1898. The BHS also has materials pertaining to the greater city and its region. Contents 1 Overview 2 Collections 3 Early history 4 Present building 5 Decline and revival 6 Branding 7 New - York Historical Society book prizes 8 Presidents 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External links Overview Re-enactment of loyalist colonial troops guard the Society building from George Washington 's Rebels The New - York Historical Society holds an extensive collection of historical artifacts, works of American art, and other materials documenting the history of the United States and New York. It presents deeply researched exhibitions on a variety of topics and periods in American history, such as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Slavery in New York, The Hudson River School, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Tiffany designer Clara Driscol, and the history of the Constitution. The Historical Society also offers an extensive range of curriculum - based school programs and teacher resources, provides academic fellowships and organizes public programs for adults to foster lifelong learning and a deep appreciation of history. Collections Asher B. Durand, Pastoral Landscape, 1861 The New - York Historical Society 's museum is the oldest in New York City and predates the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by nearly 70 years. Its art holdings comprise more than 1.6 million works. Among them are a world - class collection of Hudson River School paintings, including major works by Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church ; iconic genre and history paintings including works by William Sidney Mount and Eastman Johnson ; a vast range of American portraits, including paintings by Rembrandt Peale and Gilbert Stuart ; all 435 of John James Audubon 's extant preparatory watercolors for The Birds of America ; and an encyclopedic collection of more than 800 works documenting the full range of representational sculpture in America from the colonial period to the present day. The Historical Society also holds an important collection of paintings and drawings by marine artist James Bard. The museum holds much of sculptor Elie Nadelman 's legendary American folk art collection, including furniture and household accessories such as lamps, candlesticks, textiles, glass, and ceramic objects, as well as paintings, toys, weathervanes, sculptural woodcarvings, and chalkware. The Historical Society 's holdings in artifacts and decorative arts include George Washington 's camp bed from Valley Forge, the desk at which Clement Clarke Moore wrote `` A Visit from Saint Nicholas '', one of the world 's largest collections of Tiffany lamps and glasswork, and a collection of more than 550 late nineteenth - century American board games. Its research library contains more than three million books, pamphlets, maps, atlases, newspapers, broadsides, music sheets, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings. Among its collections are far - ranging materials relating to the founding and early history of the nation including the first documentary evidence of the phrase `` United States of America '' ; one of the best collections of 18th - century newspapers in the United States ; an outstanding collection of materials documenting slavery and Reconstruction ; an exceptional collection of Civil War material, including Ulysses S. Grant 's terms of surrender for Robert E. Lee ; collections relating to trials in the United States prior to 1860 ; American fiction, poetry, and belles - lettres prior to 1850 ; a broad range of materials relating to the history of the circus ; and American travel accounts from the colonial era to the present day. The Society operates a website showing many images from its collection. In 2015 it announced the digitization and posting of over a thousand negatives by photographer Robert L. Bracklow from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Early history Recruiting poster for the First Battalion, New York Mounted Rifles, New - York Historical Society collection 11th Street The Historical Society was founded on November 20, 1804, largely through the efforts of John Pintard. He was for some years secretary of the American Academy of Fine Arts, as well as the founder of New York 's first savings bank. He was also among the first to agitate for a free school system. The first meeting comprised 11 of the city 's most prominent citizens, including Mayor DeWitt Clinton. At the meeting, a committee was selected to draw up a constitution, and by December 10, the Historical Society was officially organized. According to the Historical Society 's first catalogue, printed in 1813, the museum then held 4,265 books, as well as 234 volumes of United States documents, 119 almanacs, 130 titles of newspapers, 134 maps, and 30 miscellaneous views. It had already collected the start of a manuscript collection, several oil portraits and 38 engraved portraits. The Historical Society suffered under heavy debt during its early decades. In 1809, it organized a celebration of the 200th anniversary of the arrival of Henry Hudson in New York Harbor. Inspired by the event, the Historical Society petitioned and later obtained an endowment from the New York State Legislature, to be financed by a lottery in 1814. The failure of the lottery resulted in a debt that forced the Society to mortgage some of its books, which were not redeemed until 1823. The Historical Society and its collections moved frequently during the 19th century. In 1809, the Historical Society and its collections moved to the Government House on Bowling Green. Constructed as a residence for the President of the United States when New York was the temporary capital, the building had been unoccupied since the government 's relocation to Philadelphia in 1790. In 1816, the Historical Society moved to the New York Institution, formerly the city almshouse on City Hall Park. In 1857, it moved into the first building constructed specifically for its collections, at the then - fashionable intersection of Second Avenue and 11th Street, where it stayed for the next 50 years. The Historical Society later acquired a collection of Egyptian and Assyrian art, which was eventually transferred to the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Present building Construction for its eighth home began September 10, 1902. The central portion of the present building on Central Park West was completed December 15, 1908, to designs by architects York and Sawyer, who were known for their bank designs. In 1938 that central block was extended and sympathetically completed by the construction of pavilions on either end, with Walker & Gillette as architects. That extension project stands among the last examples of Beaux - Arts architecture completed in the city and in the entire country. The building was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966. Corn Planter, Seneca war chief, by F. Bratoli, 1796 Two notable stained glass windows are found in the library on the 2nd floor. The Arrival of Henry Hudson was designed by Mr. Calvert of the Gorham Manufacturing Company. The second is Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, known as the French Huguenot memorial window, in honor of religious refugees to New York. It is inscribed and signed by the artist, Mary E. Tillinghast. The window was underwritten by Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage, a philanthropist who was instrumental in commissioning other windows by Tillinghast. Decline and revival Frederick Childe Hassam, Flags on Fifty - Seventh Street, oil on canvas, 1918, in the New - York Historical Society 's collection The Historical Society 's collection continued to grow throughout the 20th century, but renewed financial woes in the 1970s and 1980s forced the Historical Society to limit access to its collections to professional researchers. In the 1980s, under the leadership of Herbert S. Winokur, Jr., a private equity financier and Enron board member, the Society was forced to use endowment invasion to pay their annual operating costs and cover their salaries, to the point where by 1988, they had only enough money in their endowment to pay for another 18 months of operating expenses. Barbara Knowles Debs from Manhattanville College was named interim director of the Historical Society. In the same year hundreds of paintings, decorative art objects, and other artifacts, which were stored in a Manhattan warehouse, were found to be critically deteriorating. Many of the objects were on long - term loan to the museum. In 1995, grants from the city and state restored public access under the direction of Betsy Gotbaum. Since the late 1990s, the New - York Historical Society has invested significantly in facility and installation upgrades, and conducted fundraising. It has increased its operating budget by 160 percent to enhance and expand its public programs, while maintaining a balanced budget from 1998 to the present. Recent renovations to the Historical Society include new galleries and exhibition spaces, the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture, a state - of - the - art library reading room, and a new facility to house and provide access to the letters and manuscripts of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. In 2005, the Historical Society was among 406 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. Costumed troops guard the front hall The museum has mounted exhibits on national themes through history in New York. For instance, beginning in 2005 with Slavery and the Making of New York, 1600s -- 1827, it mounted the first exhibition ever in New York City on the major but little - known role of slavery in the city 's economy and history. During the colonial years, 41 % of households had slaves, and much of the city 's economy through the Civil War was related to the South and slavery ; half of its exports were related to cotton. Devoting the entire first floor to the exhibit, the museum mounted the largest theme exhibit in its 200 - year history. It also addressed the strengths of African Americans who resisted slavery and created their own culture, both in New York and the nation. A related part of the exhibit was commissioning 20 new works by invited artists, some of whom used objects from the museum 's collections to create new works and installations on this theme. The second exhibition was New York Divided : Slavery and the Civil War, 1827 -- 1865, ( November 17, 2006 to September 3, 2007 ), which explored the economy before the war and strong business ties to the South, events related to the war such as the New York City Draft Riots, and other aspects. Southerners visited New York so frequently in the antebellum era that they had favorite hotels. Under the direction of Louise Mirrer, a three - year, $65 million renovation of the landmark building on Central Park West was completed in 2011 to enhance public access to the institution 's resources. On Central Park West, windows were lengthened to form new entrances, with views into the main gallery, and windows were expanded. To establish `` a street presence, '' the society has installed life - size bronze sculptures outside the building -- Abraham Lincoln on Central Park West, Frederick Douglass on West 77th Street -- national figures with connections to New York. After reopening, the Historical Society offered a multimedia installation of major themes of American history through stories and figures from New York 's past. It also has a new section for an interactive children 's history museum. Branding The Historical Society uses an archaic spelling of the geographic name of `` New York ''. Hyphenating the city 's old name was common in the 19th century when the institution was founded, and is still used in this context to provide a unique identity. New - York Historical Society book prizes Main article : New - York Historical Society book prizes The New - York Historical Society gives three books prizes annually. Presidents Louise Mirrer, 2004 to present. Kenneth Terry Jackson 2001 to 2004. Betsy Gotbaum 1994 to 2001. Norman Pearlstine, 1992. Barbara Knowles Debs, 1989 to 1992. James B. Bell, 1982 to 1989. Gap Fenwick Beekman, 1947 to 1956 George Albert Zabriskie, 1939 - 47. John Abeel Weekes, 1913 - 39. Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, 1903 - 12. Eugene Augustus Hoffman, 1901 - 02. John Alsop King, 1887 - 1900. Benjamin Hazard Field, 1885 - 86. Augustus Schell, 1883 - 84. Frederic DePeyster, 1873 - 82. Augustus Schell, 1872. Thomas DeWitt, 1869 - 71. Hamilton Fish, 1867 - 69. Frederic DePeyster, 1864 - 66. Luther Bradish, 1850 - 63. Albert Gallatin, 1843 - 49. Peter Augustus Jay, 1840 - 42. Peter Gerard Stuyvesant, 1836 - 39. Morgan Lewis, 1832 - 35. James Kent, 1828 - 31. David Hosack, 1820 - 27. DeWitt Clinton, 1817 - 19. Gouverneur Morris, 1816. Egbert Benson, 1805 - 15. See also List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan from 59th to 110th Streets History of New York ( state ) History of New York City `` The Course of Empire '' New York State Historical Association References Jump up ^ `` About the President and CEO ''. New - York Historical Society. Retrieved 6 June 2012. ^ Jump up to : `` About the New - York Historical Society ''. New - York Historical Society. Retrieved 7 September 2011. Jump up ^ `` Museum Collections : Paintings ''. New - York Historical Society. Retrieved 7 September 2011. Jump up ^ `` Museum Collections : Sculpture ''. New - York Historical Society. Retrieved 7 September 2011. Jump up ^ Mariner 's Museum and Peluso, Anthony J., Jr., The Bard Brothers -- Painting America under Steam and Sail, Abrams, New York 1997 ISBN 0 - 8109 - 1240 - 6 Jump up ^ `` Museum Collections : Decorative Arts ''. New - York Historical Society. Retrieved 7 September 2011. Jump up ^ `` Museum Collections : Historical Artifacts ''. New - York Historical Society. Retrieved 7 September 2011. Jump up ^ Touba, Mariam ( Nov. 5, 2014 ) Who Coined the Phrase ' United States of America ' ? You May Never Guess From the Stacks, New - York Historical Society Blog. Retrieved 8 November 2014. Jump up ^ `` Patricia D. Klingenstein Library ''. New - York Historical Society. Retrieved 7 September 2011. Jump up ^ `` Digital Collections ''. New - York Historical Society. Retrieved June 25, 2016. Jump up ^ `` New - York Historical Society, Robert L. Bracklow Photograph Collection ''. Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York. Retrieved June 25, 2016. Jump up ^ John Noble Wilford ( April 15, 2008 ). `` How Epidemics Helped Shape the Modern Metropolis ''. New York Times. Retrieved 2014 - 08 - 11. Unlike most upper - class residents, John Pintard, the respected civic leader who was the historical society 's founder, remained in the stricken city. Jump up ^ Vail, R.W.G. ( 1954 ). Knickerbocker Birthday. A Sesqui -- Centennial History of The New - York Historical Society. 1804 -- 1954. The New - York Historical Society. pp. 173 -- 4. Jump up ^ Vail, R.W.G. ( 1954 ). Knickerbocker Birthday. A Sesqui -- Centennial History of The New - York Historical Society. 1804 -- 1954. The New - York Historical Society. pp. 191 -- 2. Jump up ^ `` Advocacy Archive -- New - York Historical Society ''. Landmark West !. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2012. Jump up ^ Raskin, Laura ( 16 June 2011 ). `` NY Historical Society Gets $65 Million Makeover ''. Architectural Record. Retrieved 6 June 2012. Jump up ^ Goldberger, Paul ( 11 April 1994 ). `` Is There Hope for Historical Society ? ''. The New York Times. Jump up ^ McGill, Douglas C. ( August 28, 1988 ). `` Troubled Museums Try to Master the Fine Art of Survival ''. New York Times. Retrieved 2009 - 06 - 24. In recent weeks, the New York Historical Society, which for years had used money from its endowment and from a few wealthy trustees and patrons to compensate for growing annual deficits, finally reached... Jump up ^ McGill, Douglas C. ( November 30, 1988 ). `` Historical Society Reshaping Itself for Survival ''. New York Times. Retrieved 2009 - 06 - 18. Last January, after many years of using money from the Historical Society 's endowment to pay for yearly operating deficits, the trustees determined that the endowment had dwindled to the point where the institution would be bankrupt in 18 months. ^ Jump up to : McGill, Douglas C. ( August 14, 1988 ). `` Panel Will Seek Rescue For Historical Society ''. New York Times. Retrieved 2009 - 06 - 24. In addition, Barbara Knowles Debs, an art historian who is known for her financial acumen as president of Manhattanville College from 1975 to 1985, has been named interim director of the Historical Society. She replaces James B. Bell, the director since 1982, who resigned last month after the institution 's financial crisis came to light and after The New York Times disclosed that many of the Historical Society 's possessions had been rotting in warehouses. Jump up ^ McGill, Douglas C. ( July 10, 1988 ). `` Hundreds of Art Works Damaged By Mildew in Museum Warehouse ''. New York Times. Retrieved 2009 - 06 - 24. Hundreds of paintings, decorative art objects and artifacts that the New - York Historical Society is storing in a Manhattan warehouse are in such acute stages of deterioration that some may be permanently lost... Jump up ^ `` About the Exhibit '', Slavery and the Making of New York, New - York Historical Society, accessed 3 May 2012 Jump up ^ `` About the Exhibit '', New York Divided : Slavery and the Civil War, 1827 -- 1865 ( November 17, 2006 to September 3, 2007 ), New - York Historical Society, accessed 3 May 2012 ^ Jump up to : Pogrebin, Robin ( April 11, 2011 ). `` A Bunker of History Begins to Open ''. New York Times. Retrieved 2011 - 06 - 21. But with a $65 million renovation that is nearing completion, the museum is reaching out to the public with a redesign that tries to be welcoming and to communicate the treasures that lie within a building originally designed by architects who specialized in banks. Jump up ^ `` It Can Hyphen Here : Why the New - York Historical Society Includes a Hyphen ''. New - York Historical Society Museum & Library. Retrieved 31 March 2017. ^ Jump up to : `` CUNY Administrator to Lead Historical Society ''. New York Times. March 13, 2004. Retrieved 2014 - 08 - 11. The New - York Historical Society named Louise Mirrer, the chief academic officer of the City University of New York, as its new president, succeeding Kenneth T. Jackson, a historian who will return to teaching at Columbia University. Jump up ^ Susan Saulny ( May 5, 2001 ). `` Society Picks Historian For Top Post ''. New York Times. Retrieved 2017 - 09 - 01. Mr. Jackson succeeds Betsy Gotbaum, who has served as the society 's president since 1994. Jump up ^ `` Historical Society Names Leader ''. New York Times. October 2, 1992. Retrieved 2014 - 08 - 11. Norman Pearlstine, the former executive editor of The Wall Street Journal, has been named interim president of the New - York Historical Society, the society announced yesterday. Mr. Pearlstine, who has been chairman of the Historical Society since April 1989, is to head a search committee to replace Dr. Barbara Knowles Debs, who retired yesterday after four years as president. Dr. Debs will remain a trustee. Jump up ^ `` Fenwick Beekman, M.D. ( 1882 - 1962 ) ''. New - York Historical Society. Retrieved April 21, 2017. ^ Jump up to : Robert William Glenrole Vail. `` Knickerbocker birthday ; a sesqui - centennial history of the New - York Historical Society 1804 - 1805 ''. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Retrieved 31 March 2017. Further reading Shapiro, Gary. `` Celebrations of Learning Knickerbocker '', The New York Sun, May 4, 2006 Regis, Necee. `` Do n't Expect to Relax on your visit to NYC '', The Boston Globe, November 21, 2005 Fine Art Connoisseur, November / December 2006 The American Musicals Project, Official website Miller, Dan. `` Focus on Education : Fifth Graders Visit Slavery Exhibit '', The Queens Times, November 24, 2005 Review of Alexander Hamilton : The Man Who Made Modern America, Teachinghistory.org External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to New - York Historical Society. Wikisource has the text of the 1905 New International Encyclopedia article New York Historical Society. 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Question: where is the new york historical society located
Answer: New York City at the corner of 77th Street and Central Park West in Manhattan