1890 House Museum and Center for the Arts
37 Tompkins Street
Cortland, NY 13045
607.756.7551
Contact: Teresa Roberts, Director
Email: the1890house@odyssey.net
Hours: January - April: Tuesday-Sunday 1:00-3:00p
May - December: Tuesday-Sunday 1:00-4:00p
Holdings: Victorian house museum with carriage house and gardens. Photographs and glass plates: Cortland 1880-1940 (?).
Cortland Country Music Park
PO Box 402
Route 13 North
Cortland, NY 13045
607.753.0377
Contact: Kay Zaharis, Director
Email: countrymusicpark@clarityconnect.com
Holdings: The Hall of Fame has memorabilia from Kenny Rogers, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Roy Clark, and many more. NYS performer memorabilia as well.
Cortland County Historical Society
25 Homer Avenue
Cortland, NY 13045-2056
607.756.6071
Contact: Mary Ann Kane, Director
Email: cchs@clarityconnect.com
Hours: Museum Tuesday-Saturday 1:00-4:00p
Library Tuesday-Saturday 1:00-5:00p
Holdings: 14,000 Brockway Truck Company photographs & negatives; genealogical records; county photographs; original records of the county poor house & of the children's home; several collections of county women's organizations; local business & industry records; original student records from NYS Normal School at Cortland (1869-1893); census records indexed (NYS and federal) through 1930; extensive clipping files; census and newspapers on microfilm; cemetery records; surname files; birth, death and marriage records.
Cortland Free Library
32 Church Street
Cortland, NY 13045
607.753.1042
Contact: Kay Zaharis, Director
Email: cortlandlib-dir@twcny.rr.com
Website: www.flls.org/cortlandlib
Hours: Monday-Thursday 10:00a-8:30p
Friday-Saturday 10:00a-5:30p
Holdings: Pertaining to Cortland County residents. Yearbooks from both high schools, city directories 1879-Present, local newspapers from 1867.
Cortlandville Historical Society
3577 Terrace Road
Town Hall
Cortland, NY 13045
607.756.7306
Contact: Valerie Schmidt, Historian
Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30a-4:30p
Cuyler Historical Society
4721 Bennett Road
Cuyler, NY 13050
Contact: Ann Ludke, Historian
Email: a.w.ludke@att.net
Hours: By appointment only.
Holdings: Photographs, artifacts, some genealogy, maps.
Empire State Theatre and Musical Instrument Museum
4409 Sweeney Road
Cortland, NY 13045
Contact: Dale Bell, Director
Email: paedwards@juno.com
Hours: By appointment only.
Holdings: Film, phonograph, and other visual and audio media records.
Glen Haven Historical Society
PO Box 293
Homer, NY 13077
Hours: July-August: Saturday 1:00-3:00p
Homeville Museum
49 Clinton Street
Homer, NY 13077
607.749.3105
Contact: Kenneth M. Eaton, Curator
Hours: May-October
Thursday 7:00-9:00p
2nd & 4th Sunday 1:00-4:00p
Also by appointment all year.
Holdings: hree rooms of running trains; railroad memorabilia, eight rooms of military artifacts through Desert Storm; outdoor display of army tanks, trucks, and jeeps. Small library.
Kellogg Free Library
PO Box 150
5681 Telephone Road
Cincinnatus, NY 13040
607.863.4300
Hours:Tuesday Thursday 1:30-5:00p, 7:00-9:00p
Wednesday Friday 1:30-5:00p
Saturday 9:00-12:30p
Holdings: Records and materials relating to Cortland county, especially east Cortland County.
Lamont Memorial Free Library
PO Box 559
5 Main Street
McGraw, NY 13101
607.836.6767
Contact: Julie L. Widger, Director
Email: lmemorial@twcny.rr.com
Website: www.flls.org/lamont
Hours: Monday Tuesday Thursday 2:00-8:00p
Friday 10:00a-12:00p, 2:00-5:00p
Saturday 10:00a-1:00p
Landmark Society of Cortland County
31 North Main Street
Town Hall
Homer, NY 13077
607.749.3322
McGraw Historical Museum
PO Box 131
McGraw, NY 13101
607.753.4717
Contact: Mary Kimberly, Director
New York State Grange Museum
3033 Middle Sodus Road
Lyons, NY 14489
607.756.7553
Contact: Carol Bailey, Curator
Hours: By appointment only.
Holdings: Grange artifacts including furniture, regalia, pictures.
Peck Memorial Library
PO Box 325
East Main Street
Marathon, NY 13803
607.849.6135
Contact: Mary Frank, Director
Email: peckmemlib@stny.rr.com
Hours: Monday 3:00-7:00p
Tuesday 9:00a-12:00p; 1:00-4:00p
Wednesday 6:00-9:00p
Thursday 1:00-4:00p; 6:00-9:00p
Friday 1:00-4:00p
Saturday 9:00-11:00a
Phillips Free Library
PO Box 7
37 South Main Street
Homer, NY 13077
607.749.4616
Contact: Nancy Harbison, Librarian
Email: phillip1@twcny.rr.com
Hours: Monday Tuesday Thursday 2:00-6:00p; 7:00-9:00p
Wednesday 10:00a-6:00p; 7:00-9:00p
Friday 2:00-6:00p
Saturday 10:00a-2:00p
SUNY Cortland Memorial Library
PO Box 2000
Cortland, NY 13045
607.753.2590
Contact: M. Lorraine Melita, Librarian
Email: library@snycorva.cortland.edu
Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:30a-10p
Friday 10:30a-6:00p
Saturday 11:00a-6:00p
Sunday 12:00-10:00p
Holdings: Memorial Library houses a collection of over 400,000 volumes, 1,200 journal subscriptions, an extensive microtext collection and a strong collection of electronic resources. SUNY Cortland Memorial Library is also a part of the New York State and federal depository programs for government documents.
Taylor Historical Society
3254 Chenango Solon Pond Road
Cincinnatus, NY 13040
Contact: Patricia Bush, President
Email: taylorhistoricalsociety@direcway.com
Tompkins-Cortland Community College
PO Box 139
170 North Main Street
Dryden, NY 13053
607.844.8222 ext. 4363
Contact: Margaret Anderson, Librarian
Email: library@sunytccc.edu
Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00a-9:00p
Friday 8:00a-4:00p
Saturday 11:00a-3:00p
Unitarian Universalist Society of Cortland
5 Church Street
Cortland, NY 13045
607.753.0020
Contact: Karren Kenning
Hours: By appointment only.
Holdings: Building Archives began around 1992. Attempts have been made to describe the building in detail, and to collect the historyand architectural and preservation information in order to make up for the loss of the first 125 years of local history.
Virgil Historical Society
1176 Church Street
Cortland, NY 13045
607.835.6321
Contact: Frances B. Bays, Director
Hours: By appointment only.
Holdings: School, church, cemetery, and census records; local history; general files; some artifacts.
