Volunteer Firemen's Museum-Kingston NY

11/04/2020

Just a reminder we will be open the next 3 Saturdays November 7, 14 and 21st from 10 to 2. We will be closed in December and will be posting our winter hours soon.

11/04/2020

June 1927 City Hall fire and copy of the run log from Wiltwyck Hose records.

10/30/2020

We want to take a moment to apologize for the extended time frame of no posts on our page. For some reason we where unable to log into our account from late May until just the other day. We look forward to keeping our friends informed of all the museum activities and to continue sharing the fire department history with you

10/30/2020

A recent addition to our photo collection. Cordts Hose on Delaware Avenue taken in 1927. We also received to other photos that are currently being restored.

A recent addition to our photo collection. Cordts Hose on Delaware Avenue taken in 1927. We also received to other photos that are currently being restored.

10/25/2020

Just a reminder that we will be open on Halloween from 10am to 4pm.

05/20/2020

05/20/2020

We took some time yesterday to go visit the residents and staff at the Hudson Valley Senior Residence along with a group of folks wanting to appreciate the staff for their hard work . Everyone had a great time and they even enjoyed watching as the truck had to get jump started.

05/13/2020

As we all patiently wait to reopen our doors to visitors we continue to work on new exhibits . We are working on our plans to make your visit to the museum both safe and exciting. We look forward to seeing everyone soon.

05/13/2020

Rapid Hose Parade Carriage photo dating back to the mid 1880s. This was when the building was shared with Protector Engine Company #4. For those that have seen the fire houses that where built n the mid 1800s you would have noticed that other than a few minor differences they all look the same. Rapid Hose is the only one that was built with 3 floors. The top 2 were for the 2 companies so they each had meeting space

04/15/2020

As we all sit and wait out this crazy time in our lives all of us at the museum look forward to being able to reopen so our visitors can enjoy their time here. The sound of the bells being rung by the kids is indeed missed by all of us.

04/15/2020

A few photos of Rapid Hose from our collection. Rapid Hose was organized in 1861 and continued as an active fire company in the city till April 2016.

04/01/2020

Rapid Hose Company annual banquet February 1962
Seated from left to right
Joseph Murphy, Edward Finch, John Worf, Tibor Tomshaw,Harold Kaye, James Brett, and Roland Lamoreaux
Standing left to right
Edward Albrecht, Edward Leonard, John Porsch, Jerry Kelder,, Henry Kelsh, Henry Kranz, Jerry Matthews, Robert Hinkley, and Martin Kelly.

04/01/2020

approximately 1920 in front of the post office on Broadway.

04/01/2020

A couple of interesting photos that show the back of our museum from approximately 1900. in the first picture if you look to the right of the monument you can see the back of the museum with what was at the time the hose drying tower. it is also visible lower left hand corner to the back of the church. The tower was taken down around 1907.

02/13/2020

It is time to start planning for this years Fire Engine Muster.

Mark your calendars for August 22nd.

02/13/2020

Volunteer Firemen's Museum-Kingston NY

02/13/2020

Volunteer Firemen's Museum-Kingston NY's cover photo

02/13/2020

George Weber was Chief Engineer of the Kingston Fire Department till early 1882. We have a complete copy of his report on the fire department for 1880. These are just a few pages of the report. We will be having the statue restored this year. The statue dates back to 1882 and at 138 years old he is do for some special care.

12/28/2019

We would like to thank all of our visitors and supporters for making this past year a success for the museum and look forward to an exciting 2020. We are working on several new exhibits for the upcoming year along with planning a major restoration project on our building. We will be open every other Saturday through the winter from !0am to 2pm starting January 4th. The remaining dates are

January 18th
February 1st,15th and 29th
March 14th and 28th.

We look forward to seeing you then

12/28/2019

Volunteer Firemen's Museum-Kingston NY's cover photo

11/11/2019

Some smiling faces from the fall fast at Forsyth-Park

10/09/2019

While doing research for a new exhibit for the museum we came across this information from 1802. It was the first page of a book of Bail Bonds for Ulster County. Thanks to the folks at the County Records Center we where able to get a copy of the page.

09/18/2019

Volunteer Firemen's Museum-Kingston NY's cover photo

09/18/2019

Volunteer Firemen's Museum-Kingston NY

09/18/2019

A brief history of Weiner Hose Company. The photo is of their original location on Hasbrouck Ave early 1900s. They relocated to West O' Reilly St after the fire house was completed there in 1908. The uniform and meeting reminder card belonged to James Wood.

08/29/2019

Golf Tournament 2019

08/20/2019

Antique Fire Engine Muster 2019

08/19/2019

A couple of quick pictures from todays golf tournament. It was a great day. More photos to come

08/19/2019

A fun piece of the fire department history. On June 3 1976 the board f fire unanimously approved the application for the first woman volunteer firefighter in the city of Kingston. Lois Bigando became a member of the Union Hose Fire Company at that time

08/15/2019

Photos from Volunteer Firemen's Museum-Kingston NY's post

08/15/2019

Antique Fire Engine Muster 2019

08/15/2019

We will be closed Thursday August 15 do to work being done on our roof. We apologize for any inconvenience. We will be open our regular hours Friday and Saturday

08/15/2019

We would like to thank everyone for coming out Saturday to the muster. It was a fantastic day and we hope everyone enjoyed the day.