Van Wyck Homestead Museum
Fishkill Historical Society

Junction Routes 9 & I84
Fishkill, New York
Phone: 845-896-9560 -- TTY

Statement of Purpose:

1732 Dutch Colonial home.
Headquarters for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Local history and genealogical library.

See a working colonial kitchen and a collection of artifacts from the Continental Army encampment of 1776-1783.

The house is believed to be the model for the Wharton House in the James Fenimore Cooper book "The Spy".

Changing exhibits on Fishkill history.

The museum is open on Saturday and Sunday from 1-4 PM from June through the end of October.

It is gladly open by appointment.

The museum is south of the Village of Fishkill on Route 9

Going either north or south on State Route 9, the museum is at the intersection of I 84.

Traveling east on I 84 take exit 13 go straight ahead, the museum is in front of you.

Traveling west take exit 13, go south on Route 9 under the overpass. Museum is on the left.

President- Roy Jorgensen

Vice President- Steve Lynch
Treasurer- George Supan
Corresponding Secretary- Elaine Peterberns
Recording Secretary- Marilyn Gundersen
Trustees- Cliff Foley, Helga Mackenzie, Jack Hale, Alexis Lynch, Marty Byster, Lynn Eberle
Accessions- Cathy Foley

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