Archives and Records Center

The Archives and Records Center is dedicated to preserving the records that tell the story of Westchester County. Three units within the center manage all inactive and archival county records: the Records Center, the Archives, and the Micrographics/Scanning Area.

Included in the more than 60,000 governmental records from 1680 to the present are: deeds, atlases, naturalization records, wills, election records, financial recordings, building plans, estate inventories, court documents, correspondence and minutes of all county boards and agencies—in all over 6,000 cubic feet of documents and over 75,000 maps alone.

The library collection of the Westchester County Historical Society (WCHS) is conveniently stored and accessible in the Records and Archives Center. This complementary collection boasts over 100,000 manuscripts, photographs, maps, books, diaries, periodicals, newspapers, and pamphlets. Particularly noteworthy is the Otto Hufeland Collection, the largest collection of Westchester history ever privately assembled.

All collections are conserved by trained archivists and dedicated volunteers who arrange and describe collections for storage in environmentally controlled vaults and prepare finding aids to assist in their retrieval. The staff is also responsible for scanning and reproducing valuable documents to be made available to the public.