In little over a decade, the 1990s, the Society grew from a modest house museum called the Dora Jackson House with one room jammed with local history and genealogy, to the 12-room Schenectady History Museum; the adjoining Grems-Doolittle historical and genealogical library housing over 2,000 local family files, and the Mabee Farm Historic Site—three 17th century farm buildings on 9 acres in Rotterdam Junction, seven miles (11 km) west of the City of Schenectady.