Spring at Hallockville!
Learn something new and join us on our Walking History Tours:
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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
Meet Our Guides

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
Hallockville Museum Farm
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 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.