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The Huntington Historical Society has dedicated over 100 years towards the preservation and maintenance of the history of our town. The 1795 Dr. Daniel W. Kissam House Museum and the c. 1750 David Conklin Farmhouse Museum both open to the public by appointment, were owned by two of Huntington’s most prominent families. The Kissam House hosts the Society’s festivals and special events and is interpreted to the 1840 period. The rooms of the Conklin House are interpreted to reflect colonial, Federal and Victorian periods. It also features a gallery space of changing exhibits. The 1905 Sewing and Trade School Building house our extensive Resource Center and Archives as well as our Administrative Offices. The 1892 Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Building is used an exhibit space which show cases the Society’s vast collections and also serves as the Village Visitors Center and the Town Historian’s Office.– Maria DeLeo, Facilities Coordinator
Huntington Historical Society
The Dr. Daniel Kissam House Museum434 Park Avenue | |
The David Conklin Farmhouse2 High StreetHuntington, NY 11743 Learn More When you visit this National Register property, occupied by the Conklin family for over one-hundred and fifty years, you will see the original rooms of the house constructed c. 1750. You will also see the area where Sybel Conklin and her children lived and worked while her husband, David, was held prisoner by the British in 1777. One of the earliest museums on Long Island, this home was given to the Society by Ella Conklin Hurd in 1911. | |
 | The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building228 Main StreetHuntington, NY 11743 Learn More The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building was completed in 1892 as a memorial to the 40 townsmen who died in the Civil War. The idea for a memorial was first proposed in 1865. Huntington's leading citizens joined together to create The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Association in 1886 and fund raising efforts finally bore fruit when the building was completed in 1892. The building is the first of several monumental civic structures built in Huntington in the two decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century. The Memorial Building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and as part of Old Town Hall National Register Historic District. |
 | The Huntington Sewing and Trade School209 Main StreetHuntington, NY 11743 Learn More Designed by Cady, Berg and See, 1905, architects of the original Metropolitan Opera House and The American Museum of Natural History, this unusually shaped building originally housed one of America's first vocational schools. It has been important to many generations of Huntingtonians as a place to learn marketable skills; to study English, citizenship, dance and dramatics, and as a Hebrew School. |
 | The Arsenal425 Park AvenueHuntington, NY 11743 Learn More Now known as "The Arsenal", the Job Sammis House is located on the old Town Green. Job Sammis was a weaver who hid stores of gunpowder in his attic prior to and shortly after the British Occupation of Long Island and the Town of Huntington. Today the original Arsenal is a restored house museum, furnished as it was in the 18th Century and open on select Sunday afternoons, with tours by costumed interpreters. |
