! "Gilding The Lily: Transforming the Deyo House," a special tour led by Kevin Cook

Historic Huguenot Street brings you the final opportunity to tour the magnificent Deyo House this season. The tour takes place Sunday, October 11, from 2:00–3:00 pm.

The 1894 renovation of the Deyo House by a descendant of the New Paltz Patentees marked a seminal moment in the history of New Paltz. “Gilding the Lily” takes guests inside the historic Queen Anne-style house to explore its 19th-century design influences and the societal and political themes of the era that allowed for this ostentatious display of wealth. The tour will also explore the earliest efforts to form a historical society on Huguenot Street and how the renovation changed the interpretation of the past along the street.

Tour guide Kevin Cook is a longtime resident of Historic Huguenot Street and a frequent volunteer. An accomplished landscape painter influenced by 19th-century romanticism, Cook has received a Painting Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts, exhibited at the American Consulate in Hong Kong as part of the Artists in Embassies Program, and worked as an educator at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz. His work can be seen on the sets of TV’s Billions and on a CD cover by The New York Pops. He is represented in a number of galleries and has a strong regional following. The Hudson Valley Almanac has written that “The Hudson River School of painters would easily recognize Cook as one of their own.”

Admission:
- $18 general admission
- $13 discounted admission for HHS members, seniors, students, active military personnel and their families, veterans, and children ages 13–17
- $8 for children ages 7–12
- Free for children 6 and under