The Hoboken Historical Museum is pleased to announce a new series of architect- and archivist-led historical walking tours, as part of its “Greetings from Hudson County: A Postcard History Then and Now” exhibition. Co-organized with the Hoboken Historic Preservation Commission in celebration of National Preservation Month (May), the tours will provide an overview of Hoboken’s historic churches and public buildings, as well as the various architectural styles that make up the fabric of Hoboken’s residential streetscapes, from worker housing and cold-water flats to modest and grand single-family homes.

Advance registration is required, as each tour will be limited to 20 people. Each tour will last about two and a half hours, and will take place rain or shine. Tickets are $15 ($10 for Hoboken Museum members), payable at the beginning of the tour. Good walking shoes are recommended, along with sunscreen/rain gear, depending on the weather.

Please note: a space just opened due to a cancellation. Grab the last space while it lasts! 

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The second tour is Sunday, May 19, beginning at 1 pm at the Community Church at 6th and Garden Streets and covering uptown Hoboken en route to the former Bethlehem Steel Shipyards, where the Hoboken Museum is located. This tour will be led by architect and Museum Trustee, Carrow “Beau” Thibault. Highlights will include:

• Holy Innocents (1872) and Willow Terrace houses (1860s)
• Cold-water flats at 7th and Willow
• All Saints Church at 7th and Washington
• Court Street
• Elysian Park and WWI memorial
• Castle Point Terrace
• “Doctor’s Row,” the 900 block of Washington
• First Baptist Church at 9th and Bloomfield
• Dorothea Lange’s house
• Columbia Club at 11th and Bloomfield
• “Yellow Flats” apartment block at 12th and Washington
• The firehouse on Washington between 13th and 14th Streets

Carrow Thibault is a Hoboken resident and architect with an office in town. His work includes projects in New York City, upstate New York, and Hoboken. Working closely with the New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, he has led town house facade restorations in several landmarked districts. He currently sits on the Board of Trustees for two Hoboken nonprofits, the Hoboken Historical Museum and the Fund for a Better Waterfront. Carrow holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University.