New Exhibition Opening July 2nd
Organized as part of Preservation Long Island’s 250th anniversary celebrations, Wood and Water: Furniture on Long Island, 1660–1880 will look at how Long Islanders across two centuries made and used furniture to engage with the wider world.
Steven Baltsas, our Peggy N. Gerry Curatorial Fellow, who will be with us through 2027, reflects on his first six months of the Long Island Furniture Project, which aims to increase knowledge of and accessibility to furniture made on Long Island, ca. 1660–1860.
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Join us for a day-long program to learn about early Long Island furniture. Through a series of hands-on workshops and lectures, hear from noted experts on topics related to the design, craftmanship, interpretation, and care of historic furniture collections.
Preservation Long Island is honored to be selected as the host organization for the Decorative Arts Trust’s 2025–27 Curatorial Internship Grant. We are excited to welcome the Peggy N. Gerry Curatorial Fellow to our team in 2025!
The latest addition to Preservation Long Island’s outstanding collection of regional decorative arts is a rare Queen-Anne-style cherrywood tall-case clock made in eastern Queens County (now Nassau) around 1785 by Quaker craftsman and preacher, Willet Hicks (1765–1845).