Terwilliger House Museum
The Terwillieger House Museum is a late nineteenth century Queen Anne Victorian
house built in 1895, an appropriate setting for the library's extensive local history collection.
The museum's permanent collection preserves examples of glass jug, bottles and "whimsies" from Ellenville Glass Works and stoneware made at the Ellenville Pottery, products of industries that flourished in the heyday of the Delaware and Hudson Canal in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. The second floor features the Joseph Y. Resnick Room, with photographs and memorabilia from the late congressman's tenure in Washington in the 1960's. Mr. Resnick was an Ellenville native. A display devoted to Clayton's Military Band--complete with a model bandstand and costumed mannequins--inhabits the second floor hallway as a testament to the band's nearly eighty year tradition as the pride of Ellenville.
Glass plate negatives, historic post cards and oral history cds complement the collection of artifacts and research material housed in the museum. The museum's research files contain a treasure trove of articles, ephemera and photographs. Other highlights of the research room include: Cemetery Records, Obituaries, Civil War Muster Rolls, Yearbooks from Ellenville Central School, Old Telephone Directories, Books on local history and environment, and books by local authors.
Pictured above is the Museum Advisory Committee Member Andy Helgesen with the new "Open" sign he made.
Museum Hours
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 12 noon - 3 pm and by appointment.
Interested in history? Go to eplm.org and click on the Research Tools Tab. From there, you can visit Ancestry Plus in the RCLS databases (click on the History & Genealogy Resources tab) or go to the Ulster County InfoPortal and search on HeritageQuest or Ancestry.com. Over 700 people visited genealogy websites through our databases last year.
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Hudson River Valley Heritage
