Oswego County Historical Society

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Phone Number: 315-343-1342


Email: ochs@rbhousemuseum.org



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135 East 3rd Street
Oswego, NY 13126
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Office


Phone:315-343-1342
Email: ochs@rbhousemuseum.org

The Oswego County Historical Society was incorporated in 1896 “to discover, to collect, to preserve, and to interpret materials and objects germane to the history of Oswego County’s historical resources.”

The Richard-Bates House Museum, owned and administered by the OCHS, is one of the most intact house museums in New York State, containing almost 90 percent of the of the original 19th century furnishings. The Richardson-Bates House Museum is a painted brick Italian villa style built in two sections(c. 1872, 1887-1889) for Maxwell Richardson (1838-1903). The circa 1872 north wing of the house was designed by Rochester, New York architect Andrew Jackson Warner.