Guided Tours
Friday - Sunday | Jan. 12 - Apr. 28
Adults: $10 | kids: $5 | Kids (5 and under): FREE | Members: FREE
Led by expert Historical Interpreters, the doors of the past open to you in a walking tour like none other in New York City. See the restored interiors of buildings chronicling eras of Staten Island's past, furnished with reproductions and artifacts in the Historic Richmond Town Collection.
Your tour ticket also includes access to the Historical Museum. You can access the Museum at any time on the day of your visit. The Museum is open 11am-5pm.
Two Centuries Tour
1:00 & 3:00pm
This walking tour travels through time and the Historic Richmond Town campus. Explore the Native Encampment which interprets the life of the Lenape people in the 17th century; then it's the Voorlezer's House, the site where an important figure in the Dutch/English community of Cocclestown lived. The tour also includes the Christopher House, a stone structure which bore witness to the American Revolution and the divided loyalties of 1770s Staten Island. The tour concludes with the Guyon-Lake-Tysen House, a large farmhouse with period rooms spanning the 19th century and a working kitchen. This tour invites you to contemplate the changing landscape and human population of Staten Island over time, from European contact through the era of the young republic.
On this tour, your will visit:
The Native Encampment
Voorlezer's House
Christopher House
Guyon-Lake-Tysen House
Village Life: 1820s
2:00 & 4:00pM
This walking tour focuses on the 1820s, a transformative decade for Staten Island and for the United States. Tour the Guyon-Lake-Tysen House, which features a working 1820s kitchen, complete with tools and implements, many of which were made by artisans in the village. Learn about the typical shop and home trades of 1820s Americans, as the tour stops in the Basket Maker's House and Broom Shop. The tour's last stop is the village Tavern, a place where people met for entertainment, and to discuss the politics of the day. Long before Staten Island was a part of the City of New York, it was a quiet and bucolic landscape, dotted with small villages and farmsteads; this program invites you to imagine what life was like here two hundred years ago.
On this tour, your will visit:
Guyon Tavern
Broom Shop
Basket Maker's House
Guyon-Lake-Tysen House