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    Office Hours:
    Monday - Friday 10 am-4 pm 

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    Tour Hours (we offer 1 hour guided tours only)

    *Monday - Friday  10 am, 12 pm, 2 pm

    Saturdays Seasonally July-October

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    The following dates/times are unavailable:

    No tours available at this time.

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    *There are occasionally days/times that we have special events or school programs that would not allow for a tour. We recommend calling 607-937-5281 to schedule your visit.

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    Caroline Martin
    • Jul 31, 2019
    • 2 min

    Military Drum 1812

    Sitting high on a shelf in the Corning-Painted Post Historical Society Research Library and Archive is a battle worn drum from the War of 1812. Many American...

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    Caroline Martin
    • Jul 31, 2019
    • 2 min

    Coffee Grinder Circa 1800

    Coffee has long been a beverage of choice for New Yorkers. The first known coffee house in the New World was The Kings Arm, founded in 1696, located in what ...

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    Caroline Martin
    • Jul 21, 2019
    • 2 min

    Hats at the Heritage Village Textile Archive Part 2

    In the 1930’s men’s hat companies began making feminine versions of popular men’s hats—such as fedoras and bowlers. Because of the Great Depression women wou...

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    Caroline Martin
    • Jul 20, 2019
    • 2 min

    Hats at the Heritage Village Textile Archive Part 1

    The Corning-Painted Post Historical Society textile archive houses a marvelous collection of 19th and 20th century women’s hats. Hats used to be an essential...

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    Caroline Martin
    • Jul 13, 2019
    • 2 min

    Civil War Union Shell Jacket and Kepi 1862

    Corning-Painted Post Historical Society houses a textile archive with clothing and accessories from the early 1800’s up until the present. Two of these are a...

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    Caroline Martin
    • Jul 9, 2019
    • 2 min

    Ice Skates Circa 1900

    Within the archives of the Corning-Painted Post Historical Society is a great number of shoes. One pair, quite unlike any other, are adjustable metal ice ska...

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    Caroline Martin
    • Jun 29, 2019
    • 2 min

    Powder Horns

    Throughout the Benjamin Patterson Inn, there are various powder horns on display. Their primary purpose was to be a container for black gunpowder, but they w...

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    Caroline Martin
    • Jun 23, 2019
    • 2 min

    Salsify

    Within the gardens at the Heritage Village one can find all manner of plants used in cooking and for medicine. These gardens mimic the kinds of gardens that w...

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    Caroline Martin
    • Jun 18, 2019
    • 2 min

    Baron Steuben Hessian Soldiers 1929

    These four wooden sculptures, approximately four feet in height each, once stood proudly over the bar at the famous Baron Steuben Hotel in Corning, NY, and n...

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    Caroline Martin
    • Jun 11, 2019
    • 1 min

    Metal Lunch Box Circa 1910

    This metal lunch box, as well as a few others, are on display within the Browntown Schoolhouse, one of five historic buildings we have on site at the Heritag...

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