The Hoboken Historical Museum is pleased to announce a new series of expert-led historical walking tours, as part of our “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.

A ticket became available this morning, try the link below to see if it’s still available. There are also two tours in late June of Stevens historic campus buildings led by two of the Institute’s archivists. Scroll down our events calendar or visit eventbrite for details.

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The second Uptown Hoboken tour is on Sunday, May 19, beginning at 2 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 Hoboken Museum director, Bob Foster. 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

Bob Foster is a long-time Hoboken resident and part of the original founding group of the Hoboken Historical Museum in 1986. He has been executive director since the Museum opened in its current location at 1301 Hudson Street, where he curates exhibits, plans special programming, and manages operations. His knowledge of Hoboken’s history and lore was developed over the course of 30+ years of research and interviews. He and Holly Metz have collaborated on an oral history series, Vanishing Hoboken, which preserves the stories of over 34 (and counting) Hobokenites from all walks of life in illustrated booklets called chapbooks.