The other corner of State and Pearl

Staats House
Staats House

Hoxsie will have more next week on the Old Elm Tree Corner, where the Livingstons lived it up. Meanwhile, on the opposite corner of State and Pearl streets was the Staats house, which  was built from 1659 to 1667 and survived until 1887. It was originally home to generations of the Schuyler family, and then was known as the Staats house. At the time of this photograph, the streets were commercial and the old Staats house was the site of A.F. Waldbillig’s “Deutsches Photograph Atelier,” the most perfect mix of mongrel nomenclature I’ve ever seen.

It was removed in 1887 to make way for the Albany County Bank. The corner is now home to a nameless glass office building that houses IBM, M&T Bank and others.

Long after this post was originally made, we delved much more into the history of the Staats House site.

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