Crummey Baker
Michael Crummey was a successful bread, pie and cake baker with two locations: Beaver Street at the corner of Lodge (is it possible this building still stands?) and 60 North […]
Michael Crummey was a successful bread, pie and cake baker with two locations: Beaver Street at the corner of Lodge (is it possible this building still stands?) and 60 North […]
John Gavit’s engraving, printing, lithographing, and stationery operation was smack in the busiest part of the city in 1869, right at 57 State Street (now, sadly, a prominent parking lot). […]
In 1869, Theodore Van Heusen was a dealer in fine china, glass, earthen ware, kerosene goods, gas fixtures and more. His business was in Marble Hall, at 468 and 470 […]
It’s Albany, 1869. Where are you gonna get your silver plated? George B. Withers of 52 Hudson Street was your man for silver plating and galvanizing. As he manufactured fine […]
Where were all those dapper folks from 1908 we looked at yesterday hanging about? The Ten Eyck Hotel, corner of State and Chapel. To its right is the Tweddle Building, […]
There was a time when Albany was dapper. To judge by these views from around the Ten Eyck Hotel, that time was 1908. Witness four gentlemen in straw boaters, standing […]
Albany’s grandest of grand hotels in the early 20th century was The Ten Eyck, located pretty much where the Hotel Albany (originally and once again a Hilton) is located on […]
As we mentioned yesterday, in 1927 the suburbs of Albany were starting to boom. Veeder Realty was pushing two new developments, Birchwood Park and Hampton Manor. Birchwood Park was between […]
We’ve looked at some of the other buildings of the old State Normal School in Albany, now known as the downtown campus of SUNY Albany, but haven’t tripped upon Sayles […]
We all know (we do all know this, right?) that General Ulysses S. Grant finished his military memoirs in a small cottage at Mount McGregor just before dying there on […]