On Friday, the street will be aglow with candlelight.  In the Jean Hasbrouck House, guests will have an opportunity to experience the house as few do - by the nighttime candlelight that would have been part of every late winter evening in the 1700s.  Light, the scarcity of it and the need to capture as much natural light as possible informed both design and function of the houses.  Unique lighting implements from our collections, including the betty lamp, will be featured.

Across the street in the Deyo House, guests will experience one of the village's finest houses just at the time that electric light has come to the village.  The Brodheads, then in residence, take advantage of this new innovation, but continue to live by the soft, warm glow they knew from gas and candlelight.  The result is a transition from the old to the new.

The tour will begin at 7pm in the DuBois Fort Visitor Center at 81 Huguenot Street.  Here guests can enjoy a glass of wine or sparkling water before departing down a candlelit path to the museum houses.  $12 per person ($10 for Friends of Huguenot Street).  Advance reservations are not required, but are suggested.  To make a reservation, click on the candle above or call (845) 255-1889.