Columbia County Historical Society

Founded in 1916, the Columbia County Historical Society and CCHS Museum & Library collects, preserves, interprets, and presents the history, heritage, and culture of Columbia County, New York, and serves residents of all eighteen Columbia County towns and the city of Hudson.

CCHS collections include important and rare genealogical materials, archives, paintings, textiles, furniture and decorative arts relating to Columbia County's heritage.

The Columbia County Historical Society owns and maintains four historic properties including a museum & library at its headquarters located in the village of Kinderhook, New York at the corner of Broad Street and Albany Avenue. It also publishes a biannual magazine, Columbia County History & Heritage.

The Columbia County Historical Society was founded in 1916 as a women' social and philanthropic club. The historical society first admitted men with a men's auxiliary in 1917 and became fully coed when it incorporated in 1924 as the Columbia County Historical Society, Inc. In 2016, the CCHS celebrated its centennial with publication of its institutional history and exhibition, "100 Years of Collecting". The Historical Society generally focuses on New York State and Dutch Colonial history and culture.

Columbia County Historical Society owns four historic properties:

the Headquarters building houses the museum & library, collections storage exhibit galleries as well as staff offices

CCHS collections include works of art, paintings, photographs, decorative arts, maps, furniture, textiles, costumes, books and rare manuscripts, as well as four historic properties: The 1737 National Historic Landmark, Dutch Colonial 'Luykas Van Alen House'; c.1819 James Vanderpoel House; c1850 Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse; and the 1915 CCHS Museum & Library building.

The Barbara P. Rielly Memorial Research Library (located within the headquarters building) is named for a former CCHS Executive Director, and holds material on Columbia County and New York State history, genealogy, architecture, and decorative arts as well as manuscripts, books, maps, architectural drawings, diaries, personal correspondence, scrap books, broadsides, business records, pamphlets, programs, ephemera, photographic prints, glass and film negatives, cased images, and albums.

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