Arts of Southern Finger Lakes
32 West Market Street
Corning, NY 14830
607.962.5871
Contact: Jan Newcomb, Executive Director
Email: thearts@stny.rr.com
Hours: Monday 9:00a-5:00p
Tuesday 9:00a-5:00p
Wednesday 9:00a-5:00p
Thursday 9:00a-5:00p
Friday 9:00a-5:00p
Closed Friday during summer.
Avoca Free Library
PO Box S
5 Griswold Street
Avoca, NY 14809
607.566.9279
Contact: Sandy Seager, Director
Email: avoca@stls.org
Hours: Monday 6:30-9:00p
Tuesday 2:00-5:30p; 6:30-9:00p
Thursday 2:00-5:30p; 6:30-8:30p
Saturday 9:00a-12:00p; 2:00-5:00p
Holdings: Library features a local history collection.
Avoca Historical Society
PO Box 185
Avoca, NY 14809
Hours: By appointment only.
Bath VA Medical Center Historical Museum
76 Veterans Avenue
Bath, NY 14810
607.664.4813
Hours: By appointment only.
Holdings: A Military & Medicine Museum containing artifacts dating back to 1776 is maintained on the grounds to honor the facility's long history. A National Cemetery with roots dating back to the Civil War is also located on the Medical Center Grounds.
Camp O"Rorke Museum of New York’s Citizen-Soldier of the Civil War
PO Box 149
Kanona, NY 14856
Contact: Rick Leisenring, Director/Curator
Email: leisenring@usadatanet.net
Holdings: Photographs, posters, handbills, documents pertaining to New York Military 1861-1865.
Cohocton Historical Society
PO Box 177
14 Maple Avenue
Cohocton, NY 14826-0177
585.384.5729
Contact: Bill Mehlenbacher, President
Email: webmaster@cohocton.org
Website: www.cohocton.org
Hours: First Saturday of every month 10:00a-1:00p
Also by appointment.
Holdings: Census, cemetery records; photographs; business and school articles and records; local history books and photographs; genealogy references; Cohocton Times, indexed newspapers 1898-1963; Cohocton Union and High School memorabilia 1898-1934; Cohocton Central school memorabilia 1935-1993; North Cohocton-Atlanta School memorabilia 1900-1956.
Corning Community College
Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Library
1 Academic Drive
Corning, NY 14830
607.962.9508
Contact: Cindy Maier, Archivist
Email: Maierc@corning-cc.edu
Website: www.corning-cc.edu
Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00a-6:00p
Friday 8:00a-4:00p
Appointment necessary to access collection.
Holdings: Collections include history of Corning Community College (1957-current); college catalogs, Board of Trustees minutes and photographs.
Corning Incorporated
Department of Archives and Records Management
1 Riverfront Plaza
MP-HQ-E2-26
Corning, NY 14831
607.974.8457
Email: cottonml@corning.com
Website: www.corning.com
Contact: Michelle L. Cotton, Archives and Records Management Supervisor
Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00a-5:00p
Appointment necessary to access collection.
Holdings: Documents, audio-visual materials, product samples, and ephemera tracing the history of Corning Incorporated and its associated entities.
Corning Museum of Glass
Rakow Library
One Museum Way
Corning, NY 14830-2253
607.974.5909 or 607.937.5371
Contact: Nive Chatterjee, Archivist
Email: Chatterjn@cmog.org
Website: www.cmog.org
Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00a-5:00p
Researchers are encouraged to call in advance to find out the availability of archival materials.
Holdings: Rakow Library has a wide-ranging collection including 40,000 monographs, 1,000 active periodical subscriptions, 20,000 auction sale and trade catalogs, 16,000 titles in microform, 200,000 slides, 1,200 videotapes, and several hundred drawings, prints, photographs, posters, and designs. The Library’s holdings also include personal and corporate archives and manuscripts, as well as sound recordings, postages stamps, calendars, and other glass related resources.
Corning-Painted Post Historical Society
59 West Pulteney Street
Corning, NY 14830
607.937.5281
Contact: Carrie A. Fellows, Curator of Patterson Inn Museum
Email: CPPHS@aol.com
Website: www.corningny,com/bpinn
Hours: March-December
Monday-Friday 10:00a-4:00p
Please call for an appointment.
Holdings: Automated database, collection description, accession-level description. Collections cover Corning-Painted Post area. Personal papers of prominent residents: W.H. Curtiss 1918-1955; Drake Family Papers 1890-1935; Thomas G. Hawkes, Frank Hewitt 1890s-1930s; Byron Pierce letters 1861-1865; business records. 15,000 Glass plate negatives; postcard collection; scrapbooks; city maps; city directories 1903-1974; large textile collection; one room schoolhouse records; local biographies.
Crooked Lake Historical Society
PO Box 154
Hammondsport, NY 14840
Hours: By appointment only.
Glenn Curtiss Museum
8419 Route 54
Hammondsport, NY 14840
607.569.2160
Contact: Rick Leisenring, Associate Curator
Email: curtiss@linkny.com
Website: www.linkny.com/curtissmuseum
Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00a-5:00p
Holdings: Extensive files & photos on: early American aviation; Glenn Curtiss; "Early Bird" aviators; Curtiss-Wright Aircraft; Airships Inc.; Curtiss motorcycles; Curtiss engines; Thomas Aircraft. Local history of Hammondsport, Keuka Lake, and area wine making.
Greenwood Area Historical Society
PO Box 945
2662 Main Street
Greenwood, NY 14839
Hours: By appointment only.
Greyton H. Taylor Wine Museum
8843 Greyton H. Taylor Memorial Drive
Hammondsport, NY 14840
607.868.4814
Contact: Paul Sprague, Director
Email: pspr@linkny.com
Hours: May-October:
Monday-Saturday9:00a-5:00p
Sunday 12:00-5:00p
Hornby Historical Society
185 South Place
Corning, NY 14830
607.962.6748
Contact: Susan J. Moore, Historian
Email: SJMoore@stny.rr.com
Hours: July-August
Sunday 1:00-3:00p
Holdings: Original school desks and books dating from the late 1800s. Museum is a former one-room schoolhouse. Genealogies of over 100 early Hornby families. Vintage clothing and textiles. Photos, slides, tintypes, daguerreotypes.
Howard Historical Society
Mill Road
Avoca, NY 14809
607.566.2412
Contact: Sondra Lyke Lewis, Historian
Hours: By appointment only.
Holdings: Family records, 1819-1843, tax records of families living in Howard, cemetery records and indexing, census records and a few family genealogy books.
Howard Public Library
3607 County Route 70A
Hornell, NY 14843
607.566.2412
Holdings: Collection concentrates on Howard, NY. 1813-1848 Town Clerk books with early tax rolls, local family histories, local obituaries, indexing of town cemeteries.
Kanestio Historical Society
23 Main Street
Canisteo, NY 14823
607.698.9331
Hours: By appointment only.
Memorial Pioneer Log Cabin
15 East Washington Street
Bath, NY 14810
Hours: By appointment only.
Middletown Historical Society of Steuben County
5775 Learn Road
Cameron Mills, NY 14820
Contact: Nancy Goblet, Treasurer
Email: addgoblet@aol.com
Hours: By appointment only.
Holdings: Newspapers, photographs of Addison and surrounding area, 19th Century to present. Early school records.
Painted Post-Erwin Museum at the Depot
PO Box 516
Steuben and High Street
Painted Post, NY 14870
607.962.0249
Contact: Jamie Bosket, Site Manager
Website: www.paintedpostny.com
Hours: June-August
Monday-Friday 10:00a-4:00p
Saturday 10:00a-2:00p
September-May: By appointment only.
Holdings: Collection includes newspapers, books, photographs, textiles and other artifacts pertaining to local and regional history. The collection's records and objects relate to early occupation and settlement of the Painted Post region, local commerce, industry, transportation, recreation, tradition and important events.
Prattsburgh Community Historical Society
PO Box 384
Prattsburgh, NY 14873
Hours: By appointment only.
Rockwell Museum of Western Art
111 Cedar Street
Corning, NY 14830
607.937.5386
Contact: Bobby Rockwell, Collections Preparator
Email: info@rockwellmuseum.org
Hours: July-Labor Day
Monday-Saturday 9:00a-8:00p
Sunday 11:00a-8:00p
Holdings: Fine arts of the American West and Native American cultures. Some documentary information.
Spencer Crest Nature Center
PO Box 22
Corning, NY 14830
607.936.4686
Hours: Monday-Saturday 9:00a-3:00p
Steuben County Historical Society
Dugald Cameron Chapter
PO Box 349
Magee House
8 Cameron Street
Bath, NY 14810-0349
607.776.9930
Contact: Martha Treichler, President
Email: sthsoc@msn.com
Hours: Monday-Friday 10:00a-3:00p
Holdings: Resource Index; collection of texts (1853-1996) of history of Steuben County; texts of Bath, NY history (1793-2000); texts of history of Bath, England. Special room for large collection of Civil War texts and records. Ledgers & records of Charles A. Williamson (founder of Bath and Steuben Cos.); Pulteney Assn. ledgers (1792-1800); Pulteney Land Office ledgers (1800-1820); Steuben Co. records: cemetery (1793-2000), probate (1796-1920); census (1790-1925). Newspapers, bound & on microfilm (1831-2002), published in Bath, Hammondsport, Avoca, Prattsburgh, Addison & others; Family histories and genealogies of Steuben Co.; area school yearbooks (1891-2000); Fry scrapbooks/news clippings (1873-1894); others.
Steuben County History Center
PO Box 349
Magee House
8 Cameron Street
Bath, NY 14810-0349
607.776.9930
Contact: Ronald J. Wyatt, Archivist
Hours: Monday-Friday 10:00a-3:00p
Holdings: Furnishings and other artifacts relating to the history of Steuben County. Includes Elm Cottage Museum, County Historian's office, Chelsea and Liliane Kelly Children's Museum and Library, and Steuben County Historical Society. 19th and 20th century photos, letters and documents relating to the Davenport family of Bath and their philanthropies, especially the Davenport Home for Female Orphan Children, marriage a death records, obituaries, town histories, index to probate, etc.
Wayland Historical Society
PO Box 494
100 South Main Street
Wayland, NY 14572
716.728.3610
Contact: Elizabeth Engel, Secretary
Hours: Monday 10:00a-12:00p
Sunday 2:00-4:00p
Holdings: Presidential and political pin collection; Sally Patchin (local artist) painted baskets and memorabilia. Mostly local history of Wayland, history of local businesses; collection of Wayland newspapers; news items relating to 1943 Lackawanna Railroad accident in Wayland; history of Gunlocke Chair Company.
