The Loughran House

Senate House State Historic Site

This Italianate style house was designed by John A. Wood and built in the early 1870s for Dr. Robert Loughran (1834 – 1899) as an office and residence. A surgeon during the Civil War, Dr. ...

The Evolution of the Senate House

Senate House State Historic Site

Wessel Ten Broeck, a Dutch immigrant to New York, built and owned what would become the Senate House. Although only portions of his 1676 house remain, Ten Broeck’s residence was probably a modest stone house ...

A Community Attic

Senate House State Historic Site

This Georgian Revival style museum was built in 1927 to house and display Senate House State Historic Site’s expanding collections. Today’s permanent and temporary exhibits showcase Hudson Valey decorative and fine arts, including works by ...

Major's Hall

(Plaque 1)

Major's Hall

Erected 1852 by

William Trabue Major

Razed 1959(Plaque 2)

Illinois Republican Party

born in Major's Hall

I have supposed myself since the organization of the Republican Party at Bloomington, in May 1856, bound as a party man by the platforms of the party ...

A Radical Idea: Government by the People

Senate House State Historic Site

Consider the sacrifices made by ordinary citizens like Abraham van Gaasbeck, who risked his life, family, and property, when he offered his modest stone house as a meeting place for the first New York State ...

KDKA "Dog House"

1937-1940

This little building housed a "Spider Coil" at the base of the KDKA 718 foot broadcasting tower at Saxonburg. It provided a smooth path for the 50,000 watt signal to the world.

Marker can be reached from North Rebecca Street 0.2 ...

Miller-Davis Buildings

"...If they believe...Vandeventer pointed the gun at Swartz and advanced upon him, merely to intimidate Swartz....

so that he could get to kill the dog, and with no intention of him, or otherwise hurting him with the gun, that was no ...

Miller-Davis Building

Built 1843

A National Register of Historic Places SiteHere, in the 1840s attorneys of the old Eighth Judicial Circuit would gather. In the upper rooms Abraham Lincoln, David Davis, Asahel Gridley and others forged their ideals which fifteen years later were ...

Senate House Museum

Erected by

The State of New York

Cornerstone laid by his excellency

Alfred E. Smith

Governor of the State

on the 150th anniversary of the

organization of the

first legislature at Kingston

September 10th, 1927.

Marker is on Fair Street, ...

Hoffman House

Built by Nicholas Hoffman 1711

on part of Crown Grant of land

made to his father Martinus in 1688.

This is the northwest corner of the

Old Stockade.

Marker is at the intersection of N Front Street and Green Street, ...