Burying a pauper
First Church, Albany (Photo credit: carljohnson) In old Albany, the Dutch Church was the primary provider of social services to the needy of the community, including tending to the care […]
First Church, Albany (Photo credit: carljohnson) In old Albany, the Dutch Church was the primary provider of social services to the needy of the community, including tending to the care […]
No drawings of the interior of Albany’s original Dutch Church exist. Historian-publisher Joel Munsell once had a plan of the interior, but he neglected to print it and all we […]
The original Dutch Church sat at the foot of Albany’s State Street where it meets what is now Broadway. In fact, it sat in the middle of the street. Every […]
Another view, this one photographic, of the house built by the father of Col. Lansing at the corner of North Pearl and Columbia streets. Diana Waite says it was at […]
“Outside of the stockades north on the line with Pearl street, was erected in 1710, by the father of Col. Jacob Lansing of the revolution, the house still standing there, […]
In 1778, in the heat of the American Revolution, John Jay was New York’s Chief Justice of the Council of Safety, responsible for framing the Constitution of the State and […]
Portrait of John Jay (Photo credit: Wikipedia) New York State’s first Thanksgiving proclamation came about, not in remembrance of the Pilgrims, but in relief over the passing of an epidemic […]
One of the defining parts of the Albany skyline for decades was dedicated on this day, Nov. 21, in 1852. Patrick C. Keely was the architect for the Cathedral of […]
The Municipal Telegraph and Stock Company, 1898. Telegraphs and stocks might make some sense together . . . after all, the early stock tickers were essentially telegraph devices. That this […]
From 1898, an assertion that was certainly not true in a town that had several daily newspapers. At that time, Beaver Street was a hotbed of publishing activity.