The Seaport Museum began collecting architectural elements in its early days, thanks to a critical figure in the history of New York City’s historic preservation movement, who is better  known for his writing: author Joseph Mitchell (1908-1996). Take a brief virtual stroll from Tribeca to Hoboken and learn about some of the  lost structures that live on in the Seaport Museum collections thanks to Mitchell and Cantaloupe, with our Director of Collections via her recent blog post “The Writer and the Wrecking Ball.”

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