Painting Conservation funding will be supported through the NYSCA/GHHN Conservation Treatment Grant Program administered by Greater Hudson Heritage Network. This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional support is provided from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation. Conservation treatment will be done by Williamstown Art Conservation Center, Inc.
Read moreThe Irish Echo Newspaper
On December 13th, 2023, an article about Bowne House was featured in The Irish Echo newspaper. “The House on Bowne Street” by Peter McDermott features the story of the oldest home in Queens, including its connection to Irish-American history.
Treasures of New York: Bowne House
The award-winning PBS program Treasures of New York has featured a one hour segment on Flushing, Queens’ Bowne House. The program can be seen on television station WLIW21 (Long Island’s PBS station) and livestreamed throughout the United States at wliw.org.
Read moreBowne House featured in Untapped New York
Bowne House has been featured featured in the Untapped New York article “10 Stunning Sacred Sites You Can Tour This Weekend,” by Nicole Saraniero, Insider-in-Chief at Untapped New York. This article highlights ten participants in the New York Landmarks Conservancy’s Annual Sacred Site Open House Weekend Event.
Read moreBowne House featured in QNS News
Bowne House has been featured in a QNS News article titled “Flushing’s Bowne House Hosts Underground Railroad Event, Landmark Tour in Celebration of Black History Month,” by Bill Parry. On the final weekend of Black History Month, community leaders and residents from across the city gathered Sunday, Feb. 26, for a special event and tour of the Bowne House, the Flushing home that was built in 1661 and was instrumental in the abolitionist movement and a safe space on Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad.
Epicenter-NYC & Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State
“A Historic Day in New York”
by Kim Barrington Narisetti
Epicenter-NYC partnered with the Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State (URCNYS) and the Bowne House on Sunday, Feb. 26, to offer our members a tour led by museum educators. The Bowne House is one of the few accessible abolition landmarks in New York City and also serves as a research library documenting that part of American history.
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QNS News: Times Ledger
Six Queens historical institutions are featured in the New York Landmarks Conservancy online exhibition showcasing photography and architectural history of 50 sites throughout the city as part of its 50th anniversary yearlong celebration.
- Article written by Carlotta Mohamed, February 2023
Bowne House Included in the New York Landmarks Conservancy’s 50th Anniversary Online Exhibition
In celebration of its 50th Anniversary, the New York Landmarks Conservancy has launched the 50 at 50 Online Exhibition. This exhibition highlights 50 historic sites across New York City that the Conservancy has helped to preserve and protect, including the Bowne House.
We are grateful to the New York Landmarks Conservancy for being a long-standing, pro-bono advisor to the Bowne house on preservation issues and honored to be included in its online, anniversary exhibition.
In honor of the New York Landmarks Conservancy’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, Bowne House will be holding an on-site event 0n June,11 2023. More details forthcoming.
The Museum Association of New York
The Bowne House Archives and the Museum’s designation as a research facility by the National Park Service’s Underground Railroad Network to Freedom are the subject of an extensive article in the January 2023 edition of This Month in NYS Museums, a newsletter published by the Museum Association of New York:
"The Strength of Archival Research: How the Bowne House was selected to join the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom”
by Megan Eves, Administrator
Press Release: Bowne House Historical Society Awarded Conservation Treatment Grant
A Black Doll from the Bowne House Historical Society Collection. Image Credit: The Textile Conservation Workshop, South Salem NY, 2022.
The Greater Hudson Heritage Network (GHNN) and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) have awarded Bowne House a generous grant to help conserve an important 19th century Black doll in the museum’s collection.
The doll will be conserved by The Textile Conservation Workshop, a South Salem, New York laboratory providing comprehensive services for the preservation of textiles. Workshop staff have identified 19th century black dolls as too often ignored in the past. They are now seen as evidence of the lived experience of their owners and makers, as well as a reflection of the larger forces of slavery and its legacy. Black dolls offer a unique prism through which to view race, representation and black lives.
American Ancestors Magazine
Bowne House archivist Charlotte Jackson is the author of an article in the Fall 2022 issue of American Ancestors (the quarterly magazine of the New England Historic Genealogical Society) about the museum's archival collections:
“They Being Long Dead, Yet Speak: Three Centuries in the Bowne House Archives"
by Charlotte Jackson, Bowne House Archivist
This article presents an overview of Bowne House’s nine-generation historic documents collection which includes the first mention of the house by John Bowne in 1661 to photos of the Museum's opening ceremony in 1947. Charlotte Jackson’s illustrated article highlights John Bowne's own account of his fight for religious freedom, the letters of Colonial-era women, newly uncovered Quaker records, and documentation of the Bowne and Parsons families' participation in the Underground Railroad.
As Bowne House prepares to digitize its archival holdings in the coming year, we welcome the chance to introduce our rich holdings to a new audience of more than 30,000 readers of American Ancestors, a group of New England Historic Genealogical Society members and donors with common interests in history and heritage.
Press Release: Bowne House Historical Society Awarded National Grant to Research and Map Civil War-Era Underground Railroad Escape Routes in Queens and Long Island
The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom has awarded Flushing, Queens’ Bowne House Historical Society a significant grant to research, identify and map Underground Railroad networks and escape routes used by freedom-seekers through the relatively unknown “backwaters” of Civil War-era Queens and Long Island.
Mapping the Underground Railroad at the Bowne House: Flushing & Beyond aims to document the museum’s ties to various Underground Railroad networks, the broader Abolition Movement, and other now vanished Black history sites throughout Queens and Long Island.