In 1892, Albany was spreading out, and the Albany Land Improvement and Building Company was enticing Albany’s middle class to live out of the noise and dirt of the city. This ad begins with an auctioneer’s speech:
“$840 I’m Offered!. . . and Sold for Eight Hundred and Forty Dollars.”
If you are an Albanian and read the daily papers, you will at once associate the above with the recent auction sale of villa lots at Pine Hills, whereby so many rent-payers took the only wise course and propose to become home-owners.
Does the subject interest you?
Are you quite satisfied with paying to another what you could keep for yourself?
In a rented house you have neither the pride of possession, the pleasure of adornment, nor the contentment in living, which is possible only in a home of your own.
Study the advantages of a home at Pine Hills. The sooner you decide, the cheaper you can get it. Values increase with each succeeding purchaser. Come into our office and learn all about it.”
So sayeth the Albany Lane Improvement and Building Co., which was conveniently located in the Tweddle Building, successor to Tweddle Hall, right at the Old Elm Tree Corner.
