Our Sites

Our historic sites in Kinderhook, NY are windows into many aspects of Columbia County’s history, through architecture as well as rotating exhibits. Learn about our properties and start planning your next visit.

Kinderhook Village

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Museum & Library

Located in an early 20th-century masonic temple, the CCHS Museum & Library is home to multiple exhibition galleries and an extensive archive of Columbia County history.

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Rural Properties

Luykas Van Alen House circa 1737; one of the few remaining colonial Dutch homes in New York State.
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Luykas Van Alen House

The 1737 Luykas Van Alen House in Kinderhook, NY is recognized as one of the best remaining examples of a Dutch Colonial farmhouse in the Hudson Valley.

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Private Group Tours

We offer private, curator-led tours of our Luykas Van Alen House, Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse and James Vanderpoel House. If you are interested in scheduling a tour for your group, contact us today.

Land Acknowledgement

Our sites are located on ancestral lands of the Muh-He-Con-Neok, “the people of the waters that are never still”.  Called Mohicans by the English, these people are now officially known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community.  

By the early 1700s, their culture was severely threatened by European colonization and they were forced from New York to Shawano County, Wisconsin amid Native American removal efforts of the 19th century.