Site Visit Report

DIVISION OF HUMANITIES

HIS-112 **** PRE-APPROVED SITE VISIT LIST

Students who are interested in papers based on a visitation to historical sites should consult the following books in the Library.

• Tours of Historic New Jersey

• New Jersey: Guide to its Present and Past

• The Encyclopedia of New York City

• similar books exist for New York and nearby States.

PRE-APPROVED SITES (call the site in advance for hours and dates)

1. Franklin Roosevelt Home, Hyde Park, NY 2. Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park, NY 3. Theodore Roosevelt Home, NY 4. Theodore Roosevelt Boyhood Home, NYC 5. The Empire State Building 6. Statue of Liberty 7. Ellis Island 8. The Museum of Modern Art 9. The Museum of Natural History 10. Metropolitan Museum of Art 11. Montclair Museum 12. Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn - (second Garden

Cemetery in U.S.) 13. Prospect Park, Brooklyn (718) 788-0055

14. American Labor Museum, Haledon, NJ (only labor museum in U.S.)

15. Radburn (1st automobile suburb) 16. Hackensack Court House 17. Bronx Zoo, NY 18. New York Botanical Gardens, NY (located in the

Bronx) 19. BCC College 20. Levittown, (Most famous tract suburb in U.S.) 21. James Rose Center for Architectural Research and Design,

Ridgewood, NJ 22. Edison National Historic Site, West Orange, NJ (call 736-0550) 23. Lower East Side Tenement Museum, 97 Orchard St., New York, NY

(212)431-0233 24. Teterboro Airport 25. Grover Cleveland Birthplace (Caldwell, NJ) 26. The Brooklyn Bridge 27. Hersey, PA (a company town) 28. Coney Island 29. Eldridge Street Synagogue, Lower East Side 30. Skylands Manor: The State Botanical Gardens, Ringwood, NJ 31. The Skyscraper Museum http://www.skyscraper.org 32. The New York City Police Museum http://www.nycpm.org 33. Museum of Jewish Heritage http://www.mjhnyc.org 34. Kykuit, the Rockefeller Estate http://hudsonvalley.org 35. Ridgewood Country Club 36. Grand Central Station 37. Martin Luther King Memorial – Washington, DC 38. Museum of the City of New York 39. Woodlawn Cemetery – Bronx 40. El Museo del Barrio 103 St & 5th Ave. NYC 41. 7th Regiment Armory – 643 Park Ave., NYC 42. The High Line NYC

Please remember that the site visit reports must include material you read about the site before you visit and your observations. Both the reading material and your observations are equally important. A brochure from the site must be attached to your report. If the site does not provide a brochure (for example Levittown) then attach another form of documentation i.e. a photograph. The report should be at least 5 double spaced pages in length.