APril
*Wednesday-sunday | 11am-4pm
No tours offered 4/16 - 4/18
General Admission includes:
A guided tour and admission to the Historical Museum.
The Two Centuries Tour
Wednesday-Friday - 2:00pm
Saturday & Sunday - 12:00pm, 2:00pm
This walking tour is a survey of Staten Island through time - beginning with an encounter of the Native Encampment, depicting 1640s contact period, followed by the Voorlezer’s House, interpreting the early colony of Cocclestown, the Christopher House, circa 1720, which witnessed the divided loyalties of Staten Island in the Revolution, and the Guyon Lake Tysen House, which reveals the story of slavery and emancipation in 1820s New York.
1820s Village Life Tour
Saturday & Sunday - 11:00am, 1:00pm
This tour focuses on the early 19th century on Staten Island, in which a young nation is rapidly expanding and grappling with the American democratic experiment. Discover the role taverns played in local society, as a gathering and polling place; learn about the trades industrious Staten Islanders worked at the Basket Maker's house and the Kruser-Finley House Broom Shop; explore an 1820s kitchen in the Guyon-Lake-Tysen House, where enslaved and emancipated Africans labored.