Understanding and Preserving a Community's Heritage
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An excerpt from our oral history with the late Timothy Dunleavy, former owner of the Hudson business Rural Residence and co-founder of Historic Hudson.
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House of Refuge for Women Founder Inspires New York City's First Monument Dedicated to a Woman
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In 1912, a granite fountain designed by artist Charles Platt was dedicated in New York City’s Bryant Park to the memory of Josephine Shaw Lowell.
Read More"They Are All Ellas..."
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Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald kept secret the cruelest chapter of her own history: her confinement for over a year in a reformatory as an orphaned teenager.
Read MoreClosure of the Girls' Training School
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In the few months before its closing in 1975, Hudson, NY residents, Training School employees, and elected officials waged a campaign to stop the closure.
Read MoreHow Jan Kerouac 'Escaped' the Training School
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The story of how Jan Kerouac, daughter of legendary Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac's daughter, escaped the Hudson Training School for Girls.
Read MoreThe Delaney Report (1915)
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In 1915, Commissioner of the NY Department of Efficiency and Economy John Delaney released a report condemning the Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreHappy Childhood, Broken Homes
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Excerpt from our oral history with Karen DePyster, who taught recreation at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreThe More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same... Or Do They?
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Echoing a century-old trend, today’s reformers’ are critical of large juvenile prisons and aim to create small, ‘home-like’ environments for confined youth.
Read More"She Was Incorrigible..."
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Lisa Durfee found these photos, documents, and other 1920s ephemera from the New York State Training School For Girls at a garage sale in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreDoing No Harm
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Excerpt from our oral history with Peter Tenerowicz, lifelong resident of Hudson, NY and a former correctional officer at the Hudson Correctional Facility.
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