Politics & Government
Groundbreaking for Huntington Historical Society
The renovation will allow for additional, long-sought storage space, officials said.
Local leaders and officials attended Monday’s groundbreaking for Historical Society for the renovation and expansion of the Huntington Historical Society’s headquarters at 209 Main Street.
The project encompasses renovating the 1905-vintage Huntington Sewing and Trade School Building where the society has been housed since 1982.
The building will be expanded into the vacant lot to the west to provide additional, climate-controlled archives storage space, and an entry courtyard will be added.
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The renovation will allow for additional storage space where the society can maintain its expanding collection of photographs, maps, documents, books and other material from Huntington’s history.
Designed by Cady, Berg and See, architects of the original Metropolitan Opera House and The American Museum of Natural History, the Trade School Building originally housed one of the nation’s first vocational schools. It has been important to many generations of Huntingtonians as a place to learn marketable skills; to study English, citizenship, dance and dramatics, and as a Hebrew School.
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