Corvette Hall of Fame
aka Corvette Americana Hall of Fame,
aka Corvette Hall of Fame and Americana Museum
(4580 NY Hwy 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326, Hartwick Seminary)
(4580 NY Hwy 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326, Hartwick Seminary)
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| Corvette Hall of Fame and Americana Museum Cooperstown, NY 1992-1998 |
In referencing the Corvette Hall of Fame (1992-1998) in my previous blog post, I was subsequently motivated to do a bit of online research on the museum. I was sad to hear it is now closed. I just want to acknowledge my fond memory of this unique and wonderful museum which I visited many years ago. At the time that I visited, it had a Corvette from almost every year that the car was made, minus only two. Before now, I also did not know much about the curator of the museum, Allen Schery, who appears to have degrees in History, Anthropology, and Archeology. For him, building his Corvette Museum was a dream and a passion. This museum should not be confused with the National Corvette Museum of Bowling Green, Kentucky (built in 1994). If you click on the pictures below, you can read the enlarged newspaper articles that provides a nice description of the museum that no longer is.
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Curator: Allen Charles Schery:
Mr. Schery now lives in Los Angeles, California. Some biographical information is provided on a web page for Walt Whitman High School, Huntington Station, NY.
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ART; Very Hot Wheels Find a Parking Place of Honor, by Marshall Schuon, New York Times, August 28, 1994.
"Corvette Hall of Fame and Americana Museum," In Hall of Fame Museums, by Victor J. Danilov, 1998.
Corvette Hall of Fame Museum Capitalizes on Cooperstown Name, by Bill Rice, The Daily Gazette, April 29, 1995.
Corvette Museum Reaches the End of Its Road With Sale, by Bill Gates, The Daily Star, May 22, 1998.
History Was Driving Force Behind Corvette Museum, New York Daily News, SunSentinel.com, May 22, 1994.
History Was Driving Force Behind Corvette Museum, New York Daily News, SunSentinel.com, May 22, 1994.
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An excerpt from Victor J. Danilov's book, Hall of Fame Museums: A Reference Guide, 1997:
the picture up above is of the Baseball Hall of Fame on Main Street in Cooperstown. As far as I know, this building never house the Corvette Hall of Fame. I had the pleasure of going to the Corvette Hall of Fame when it was open. It was at a different location, just outside of Cooperstown.
ReplyDeleteI attended the Corvette museum in 1993 while on a Ny vacation. As someone who has owned 3 early Corvette I met the person ....we even discussed searching for one of the cars he was still looking for. I still have an original foldout advertisement. The museum was unique ....more a time capsule than just a car display. Sadly the town council did little to promote it.....the trolley never came down that far and so ticket sales couldnt keep up with overhead
ReplyDeleteI went there as a kid, I remember the had the Corvette from the movie Corvette Summer there! I had never seen or heard of the movie back then. Car museums are a difficult thing, in the US, at least they never seem to last.
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