Historical Society Museum Open Homecoming Day

In celebration of Homecoming, The Garden City Historical Society Museum will be open this Saturday, September 29, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Museum is located at 109 Eleventh Street, between the Garden City Water Department and the Golf Club Lane Senior Center. Alumni, residents, and friends are welcome to drop by for a 19th century experience.

The Historical Society's A. T. Stewart Exchange, its new consignment shop, offers great buys. The shop will be open extended hours on Homecoming Day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; please enter from the rear parking lot. Shoppers can find antiques, like an 1830's vintage industrial coffee grinder and a cabinet-style record player among the unusual items with an old-world flare. The Exchange also carries jewelry, lamps, china and glassware, hand embroidered linens, oriental rugs, prints, chairs and other furniture. Proceeds benefit The Garden City Historical Society for the maintenance and operations of the Museum and to continue its schedule of lectures and programs. Please ask about the shop's volunteer opportunities.

Visitors are welcome to browse the museum's main floor. The Historical Society Museum is a restored and renovated 1872 A.T. Stewart-era home that is listed on the National and State Register of Historic Places. The latest addition to the historic artifacts on display is a portrait of Cornelia Stewart, wife of Garden City founder Alexander Turney Stewart. The 1855 painting shows a beautiful and stately Cornelia at 30 years old.

Don't forget to step into the Museum Gift Shop where visitors can purchase the Society's newest item, hot off the presses, a poster showing the winning images of last spring's Children's Art Contest, "The Doors of Garden City." Also for purchase are the Society's afghans, available in several colors, local historian Mildred Smith's pictorial Garden City book, notecards depicting several of the Village's historic structures, brass and ceramic ornaments, and a decorative tile showing the "Old Garden City Hotel." Visitors can also order a commemorative brick honoring a person or an event, which will be added to walkway around the Museum.

The Historical Society's Board of Directors is happy to take this opportunity to welcome you to the Museum. Look for our volunteers, too, at the Society's table at the Homecoming Fair on Seventh Street.