Spring at Hallockville!

Learn something new and join us on our Walking History Tours:

  • War of 1812 with Richard Wines
    April 15, 1:00 – 3:00 pm

  • Architecture at Hallockville with Zach Studenroth
    May 6, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

  • The Polish Immigrant Experience with Paul Hoffman
    June 3, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

  • Gardens at Hallockville with Christine Killorin
    June 24, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

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Pricing

$0 for Hallockville Members
$10 for non-members

  • War of 1812 with Richard Wines

    Hallockville historian Richard Wines, author of “Defense of the Eagle” about the War of 1812 battle that took place in the northwest corner of Hallock State Park, will lead a Walk and Talk about the engagement. The program will start in the park’s visitor center with an illustrated talk about the engagement in which local militia held off three British warships for three days. Weather permitting, we will drive to the upper parking lot and walk about a quarter mile to a clifftop location overlooking the battle site.

  • The Polish Immigrant Experience with Paul Hoffman

    The program will begin with an illustrated talk and discussion in the Hudson-Sydlowski House about the Polish families that landed in the Hallockville neighborhood in the late 19th and early 20th century. The Hudson-Sydlowski House was home to a Polish immigrant family from the 1920s through the 1970s. The walk – approximately one-third of a mile round trip – will visit museum buildings that tell the stories of the Polish immigrant Trubisz, Naugles, and Cichanowicz families. We will welcome any stories or photos related to the Polish immigrant experience on the East End that participants bring to share.

  • Architecture at Hallockville with Zach Studenroth

    Hallockville’s architecture spans the period from 1765 – 1938. The tour will take a moment to step back in history and consider what rural families experienced in building their homes, barns, and other structures. The Hallock Homestead and its outbuildings brought living and working on a traditional farm to life; The workrooms, laundry rooms, outhouse, and smoking shed were all a part of that experience. Today, our administrative offices reside in an 1838 home and the newest farmhouse is the Cichanowicz House which dates from the early 1900s. The Naugles Barn was built in 1938. Walking along Sound Avenue gives us a chance to see the variety of buildings and appreciate the authenticity of the Hallockville Museum Farm.

  • Gardens at Hallockville with Christine Killorin

    Spend the morning with master gardener Christine Killorin and learn how you can turn your yard into a haven for bees, butterflies, and birds. These pollinators play a critical role in our ecosystem, but their numbers are in steep decline due to loss of habitat. Learn how to replace non-native plants, or a section of your lawn, with native plants that will provide pollinators food and shelter. Tour gardens at Hallockville illustrate two approaches – a woodland garden, and a full sun border. You will take home a native plant that will get you started!

Meet Our Guides

Paul Hoffman

Paul Hoffman

Paul Hoffman is a past president of Hallockville Museum Farm. He first got interested in immigrant studies when he served as Treasurer and eventually chair of the finance committee of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in the formative years of that most visited independent immigrant history museum in the country. For the past 25 years, he has been researching, speaking about, and writing about Fosters Meadow, a 19th-century German immigrant farming community on the Nasau/Queens County border. After Hallockville purchased the three acres west of the original museum building, which included an abandoned Polish farmhouse, he assumed responsibility to lead the restoration off that building to show the story of the original family who lived in the house, the Cichanowicz family.

Christine Killorin

Christine Killorin

Zach Studenroth

Zach Studenroth

Zachary N. Studenroth has been actively preserving historic buildings on Long Island since 1976. Formerly Preservation Director for the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities (now Preservation Long Island), he has devoted his professional career to the study and analysis of historic buildings including important dwellings, churches, mills, and barns. He was awarded Preservation Long Island’s prestigious “Lifetime Achievement Award” in 2018 for over forty years of service to the preservation field.
Historic structure reports and nominations to the National Register of Historic Places are his specialty. Buildings and structures of all types – Colonial-era homesteads, important 19th-century period houses, and churches, historic burying grounds, and 20th-century landmarks like the Big Duck – have provided him with a rich and diverse field of study. Each historical resource is unique and embodies a human story, one worth researching and retelling. Through his advocacy and study of the region’s historic architecture, he has helped to preserve numerous buildings and structures which are now restored and open to the public.

Richard Wines

Richard Wines

Richard Wines was educated at Yale, Harvard, and Brown, where he earned a Ph.D. in history. Since retiring from a career as a Wall Street investor relations consultant in 2000, he has devoted his time to historic preservation and land preservation projects in Riverhead. He is a past president of Hallockville Museum Farm where he was responsible for a number of restoration projects. Since 2001, he has served as chair of the Riverhead Landmarks Preservation Commission. He is also a member of the Riverhead Farmland Preservation Committee, has worked on the Riverhead Master Plan, and worked on the creation of three new parks in Riverhead: Hallock State Park Preserve, the county North Fork Preserve in Northville, and the new Sharper’s Hill project in Jamesport. He is currently writing a book on “The Hallocks and their Sound Avenue World.” Over the past two decades, he has been responsible for 21 special exhibits at Hallockville Museum Farm.