Districts of Albany in 1882
Its ravines unfilled, streams uncovered, and hills unflattened, Albany in 1882 was still hugely defined by its topography. Most neighborhoods remained isolated from one another, each…
Its ravines unfilled, streams uncovered, and hills unflattened, Albany in 1882 was still hugely defined by its topography. Most neighborhoods remained isolated from one another, each…
The State Board of Geographic Names was established in 1913 as an attempt to standardize and codify the names of cities, towns, village, rivers, creeks in…
In 1914, the fledgling movie “industry” wasn’t so much an industry as it was a motley bunch of entrepreneurs, visionaries, and scammers. What was clear, however,…
In my online explorations, I came across an organization of which I’d never heard: The Albany Social Turn-Verein. TV IMAGE The turnverein was a German society…
I’ve always been fascinated with this little strip of industrial structures, mostly built, I believe in the early 1920’s, replacing residential buildings. They were primarily created…
In the decade of the Great Depression, Americans wanted desperately to believe that science and invention would bring us a gee-whiz, Buck Rogers world. Feeding this…
I’ll go a little easier on you, that last entry was a reading challenge! This appeared in The Argus, January 29, 1905. January 2, 1683. Wynant…
(This account – reproduced in the Argus of August 27, 1905, is from historical records circa 1690 and include many unfamiliar spellings, abbreviations, and random capitalizations.…
This forlorn structure on the southeast corner of Quail and Third Streets has an unremarkable yet diverse history. Built in 1880, 24 Quail Street was a…
Upper Western Avenue, near the city limits, was pretty much undeveloped hinterland into the early part of the 20th century. In 1940, an entrepreneur named William…