Archtober Newburgh 2024 presents so many free programs and events to really understand the foundation of Newburgh as a city.

The Regional Connector project is a planned one-mile bicycle and pedestrian path directly joining the Beacon Metro-North train station with the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge. The connector provides a shorter, safer, and more scenic pedestrian and bike path to both cities and adjacent communities, ensuring a thriving recreational and transportation network in the Mid-Hudson Valley Region.

Look!MIra! Architectural Scavenger Hunt aims to connect the general public about the city’s historical assets in a fun and exploratory manner.

Archtober in Newburgh is a mini city festival featuring architectural walking tours, kids scavenger hunts, preservation workshops, short film series, and more. This inaugural festival coincides with the 50th Anniversary of Newburgh’s East End Historic District, the second largest historic district in New York State. Visit thefullerton.org for schedule and program details.

Building Shells: Building Community offers a novel preservation approach to the persistent problem: How do you break the downward cycle of vacancies? And, what do we do with the hundreds of building shells that already exist in these cites?

Preserve New York (PNY) supports the Fullerton work to re-examine the boundaries of Newburgh’s East End Historic District by conducting a Cultural Resource Survey of neighborhoods south of Downing Park.

The walking tours (written & researched by local architectural historian Steven Baltsas) use Newburgh as a case study to explore how the community and municipality can work together to prevent historic buildings from falling into disrepair.

Each month Awesome Newburgh gives away a $1,000 grant to support a project that makes Newburgh more awesome. Apply today!

In addressing a common community challenge, The Fullerton is launching its first open call for creative intervention on a historic building in Newburgh, NY. Selected artist, designer or collective will receive $10,000 to create a work that aligns with the Building Shells: Building Community project.

CityMaking Salon Series launched in Summer 2022 in Newburgh. The Fullerton is hosting a talk series featuring authors discussing topics of citymaking. The talks will be hosted at non-traditional sites throughout the city. Photo by Betty Bastidas.

Arts in the Park is a series of public arts events conceived by local and visiting artists held at Downing Park.

The project will investigate and document the extant features of the birthplace, villa and landscape of Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852), often described as the father of American Landscape Architecture.

Terrain Biennial Newburgh is an exhibition of art installations hosted on front yards, porches, windows, and building facades throughout the city, free and available to all who pass by. Artists work with Newburgh residents to integrate art into everyday spaces where it is most visible and least expected.

In Summer 2021, the Fullerton Center is working with on makerBoards 2.0 -- expanding the project to new locations in Newburgh. makerBoards are a series of mobile windows that invite kids and families to co-create while mitigating exposure to Covid-19.

In 1870, Frederick Douglass traveled through the Hudson Valley delivering a speech that endorsed the ratification of the 15th Amendment, providing the right for African Americans to vote. Specifically, on August 11, Frederick Douglass came to Newburgh and delivered his speech at the Opera House, a now demolished Broadway structure.

See the ways Newburgh came together to commemorate this magnificent man and historical fact.

Over 70 submitted proposals for how to transform Newburgh’s streets so that children, young and old, can safely play, learn, socialize and have fun in 2020, and beyond

Newburgh Arts + Cultural Study is the first comprehensive inventory and assessment of the diverse arts-and-culture ecology in Newburgh, NY.