The Brick Tavern Museum's Research Library is open for public use during regular hours. ​Researchers are required to make an appointment to use the library. Use of the Research Library is free for members. Non-members are asked to make a donation of $5 per hour. Copies are 25 cents each for all.


Please call the Museum at 607-535-9741 or email director@schuylerhistory.org to reserve time in the library. 


Some of the materials in the Research Library and the Museum's collections:​

  • Vintage maps
  • County and town information
  • Area yearbooks
  • New York State and general local history books​
  • Voter registration books
  • Photo albums​
  • Diaries
  • Store ledgers
  • Family genealogy
  • Family history files donated by family members
  • Marriage, birth and death listings
  • Cemetery listings
  • Civil War muster rolls and medical documents

The Research Library

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​Second Floor

Native American - Artifacts, arrowheads
Veterans - World War II to current uniforms, medals
Medical - Jane Delano of American Red Cross Nursing Service, Dr. Clawson
Industry - Salt, railroads, canals
Toy Room - Games, dolls, toys
Clothing - Men and women's clothing, foot wear
Watkins Glen State Park - vintage souvenirs 
Fiber Arts - Spinning, weaving, sewing, quilts

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First Floor

Victorian Parlor - Furniture, china, paintings 
Music in the Foyer - Instruments, piano forte
Research  Library - Genealogy, local history 
Gallery - Special changing exhibits
Gift Shop - Books, handcrafted items

History of the

Brick Tavern Museum

The building in 1900

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Built in 1828, the Brick Tavern Museum is the oldest brick structure in Schuyler County.  It was built as a tavern on the stagecoach route and has also been a Select School for Boys, a boarding house and a home to Dr. Charles D. Clawson, who ran the nearby Bethesda Sanitarium.  After Dr. Clawson's death, the building continued as a family home until his grandson, the late Charles Lattin, sold it to the Society in 1974.​​

Brick Tavern Museum Exhibits