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Programs and Events

Morning Hatha Yoga

June 1, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us in the beautiful Gothic Chamber for morning mat yoga with instructor Berto.

Historical Games at YouthFest

June 7, 2025 12:00 PM
140 Fillmore Street, Yonkers, NY

Join us at Fleming Field in Yonkers for Historical Games at Yonkers' 3rd Annual YouthFest!

Morning Hatha Yoga

June 8, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us in the beautiful Gothic Chamber for morning mat yoga with instructor Berto.

The Golden Cockerel

June 14, 2025 4:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

An iconic operatic work by Alexander Pushkin, based on the tales of Washington Irving, with music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

Morning Hatha Yoga

June 15, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us in the beautiful Gothic Chamber for morning mat yoga with instructor Berto.

Morning Hatha Yoga

June 22, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us in the beautiful Gothic Chamber for morning mat yoga with instructor Berto.

Meet the Women of Revolutionary Westchester

June 28, 2025 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for a FREE family living history day centered on the Women of Revolutionary War-era Westchester! In partnership with Revolutionary Westchester 250.

Morning Hatha Yoga

June 29, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us in the beautiful Gothic Chamber for morning mat yoga with instructor Berto.

Summer Games

July 2, 2025 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Play with the past with our indoor & outdoor colonial games series! Free and open to everyone.

Revolutionary Yonkers Walking Tour

July 5, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for this special 2.5 mile walking tour of downtown Yonkers in honor of Independence Day!

Summer Games

July 16, 2025 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Play with the past with our indoor & outdoor colonial games series! Free and open to everyone.

Summer Games

August 6, 2025 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Play with the past with our indoor & outdoor colonial games series! Free and open to everyone.

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Lecture: The Great Plot: Burning Manhattan

May 14, 2025 7:00 PM

Explore the rebellious slave conspiracy that burned Manhattan and gripped the city with a grueling court case in 1741 through this special virtual program.

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Exhibit: A Black History of Colonial New York

May 1, 2025 10:00 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Explore New York's earliest Black history with this special temporary exhibit, up for Pinkster through Juneteenth.

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Historical Games and Story Time

May 3, 2025 11:00 AM
1 John F Kennedy Dr. Yonkers, NY 10701

Historic Games is off site this day, at the YMCA of Yonkers' Healthy Kids Day at JFK Marina.

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Revolutionary Yonkers Roll Call of Honor

May 3, 2025 11:00 AM
St. John's Cemetery, Intersection of Saw Mill River Road & Axminster Street, Yonkers, NY

Join us for a tribute to Patriots of the Revolutionary War buried in St. Johns' Cemetery.

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Morning Hatha Yoga

May 4, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us in the beautiful Gothic Chamber for morning mat yoga with instructor Berto.

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Pinkster Jubilee 2025

May 10, 2025 11:00 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Celebrate the Afro-Dutch holiday of Pinkster, a festival of spring, family, culture, and resistance with live music, dance, games, crafts, food, vendors, history, & more! Free for everyone!

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Morning Hatha Yoga

May 11, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us in the beautiful Gothic Chamber for morning mat yoga with instructor Berto.

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Yonkers Arts Weekend 2025

May 17, 2025 10:00 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

PMH is proud to participate in Yonkers Arts Weekend with free admission all weekend, special tours, and classes including calligraphy and bookbinding!

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Yonkers Arts Weekend 2025

May 18, 2025 10:00 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

PMH is proud to participate in Yonkers Arts Weekend with free admission all weekend, special tours, and classes including calligraphy and bookbinding!

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Morning Hatha Yoga

May 18, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us in the beautiful Gothic Chamber for morning mat yoga with instructor Berto.

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Yonkers Waterfront Walking Tour

May 24, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Why was Philipse Manor Hall built where it was? Why did the Munsee have a village in downtown Yonkers for thousands of years? How did the Yonkers waterfront change over time?

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Morning Hatha Yoga

May 25, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us in the beautiful Gothic Chamber for morning mat yoga with instructor Berto.

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Morning Hatha Yoga

June 1, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us in the beautiful Gothic Chamber for morning mat yoga with instructor Berto.

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Lecture: Spaces of Enslavement and Resistance in Dutch New York

May 10, 2023 7:00 PM

In her presentation, Andrea Mosterman will explore the history of slavery and resistance in Dutch New York. Through examination of Dutch American homes, Dutch Reformed churches, and public spaces in these predominantly Dutch American communities...

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Pinkster Festival

May 20, 2023 10:00 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Pinkster Festival, an Afro-Dutch colonial celebration of spring, family, and culture. Join us for African music and dance, games, food, vendors, and fun. FREE.

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Lecture: Banastre Tarleton & The War Around Westchester, 1778-1779

June 14, 2023 7:00 PM

Even casual students of the American Revolution are familiar with the name Banastre Tarleton. Images of a dashing young British cavalryman leading a band of green-clad Loyalist cavalrymen sweeping through the south until checked and defeated by...

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Panel - Before Juneteenth: New York's Reluctance To End Slavery

June 18, 2023 2:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Juneteenth is the celebration of the last announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery, delivered June 19, 1865 in Texas. But how did slavery end in New York? It’s complicated!

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Loyalist or Patriot

July 29, 2023 11:00 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Whose side are you on? During the American Revolution, the Philipses were staunch Loyalists. The Hudson Valley was the site of fierce fighting between the Patriots and the British during the Revolutionary War...

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Lecture: Unfriendly to Liberty: Loyalist Networks and the Coming of the American Revolution in New York City

September 13, 2023 7:00 PM

Most histories of the American Revolution focus on those who became “patriots,” or revolutionaries. The standard narrative tracks their activism from the mid-1760s until the Battles of Lexington and Concord. This story, however, misunderstands...

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Harvest Festival

September 23, 2023 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Moved Indoors! Step back in time to the late 18th century! This free family-friendly outdoor festival will feature costumed reenactors and hands-on activities.

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Lecture: Friendship and Bloodshed: The Brief and Complicated History of the Dutch- Native Wars, 1643-1664

October 11, 2023 7:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Diplomacy, trade, corn taxes, burned long houses – the history of Dutch-Indigenous relations in the New Netherland colony is complicated.

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Lecture: People of the Opossum: Tracing the Ethnogenesis of the Wappinger People over the Past Five Centuries

November 8, 2023 7:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for a presentation on the local Wappinger People, a distinct Lenape group of the Hudson Highlands. This presentation explores the amalgamation of Lenape groups around New York Bay and in the Hudson Highlands, their transformation...

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Lecture: The Romances of Philipse Manor Hall

February 14, 2024 7:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY

Margaret and Frederick. Frederick and Catherine. Eva and Jacobus. Philip and Maria. Frederick II and Joanna. Susannah and Beverly. Frederick III and Elizabeth. Mary and George. Mary and Roger. Rebecca and Lemuel. Over a period of two hundred and fifty years, all these couples had ties to Philipse Manor Hall.

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Lecture: The Land in Controversy

March 13, 2024 7:00 PM

In the mid-1760s what is now Putnam County became a literal and figurative battleground as Wappinger Indians, colonial tenant farmers, and Philipse family landlords fought over the past, present, and future of these lands.

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Old New Years Eve

March 22, 2024 6:30 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Party like it's 1751! Join us for this fun and informal fundraiser for the Friends of Philipse Manor Hall.