Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History
The Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History is a history museum in Kingston, New York in a former Jewish bakery.[1][2] It includes a collection from the Reher family.[3] It is at 101 Broadway in the Rondout–West Strand Historic District. The center is a member of the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council. The Reher's collections include photographs, recipes, and archaeological finds.[4] Its gallery opened in 2018.[5]
The bakery opened in 1908 and closed in the 1980s. It was opened by Ade Reher an immigrant from Russia.[6] It was willed to a Jewish organization in 2004, became part of a non-profit, and was converted into a historical museum beginning in 2014.[7]
Students from a local Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) trade school helped install the HVAC system.[8]
It was a kosher bakery. Customers whose names were found on a paper bag in the building were interviewed as part of an oral history project. Artifacts from the building have been archived.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "A Former Kingston Bakery Celebrates Immigrant Culture". Hudson Valley magazine. August 1, 2018.
- ^ "Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History".
- ^ "Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History | New York Heritage". nyheritage.org.
- ^ "CONTENTdm". cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org.
- ^ "Reher Center in Kingston opens new gallery". Daily Freeman.
- ^ "Rondout Historic District Tours Presented by Reher Center in Kingston | Ulster County Alive!".
- ^ Smith, Jesse J. (30 May 2019). "Out of many, Kingston: Reher Center plans first full season of events". Hudson Valley One.
- ^ "Ulster BOCES students help install heating system in historic Kingston building". Daily Freeman.
- ^ Woods, Lynn (11 September 2017). "New discoveries part of Reher Bakery exhibit". Hudson Valley One.