Albany Bicentennial Tablet No. 42 – Monroe Street
One reason (among many) that this project now takes so long and so much time passes between posts is that here in the later markers, there’s just so little to […]
One reason (among many) that this project now takes so long and so much time passes between posts is that here in the later markers, there’s just so little to […]
Bicentennial Tablet No. 41 was a simple commemoration of Clinton Avenue – and an unhelpful one at that, as it didn’t even bother to indicate which Clinton the avenue was named […]
We have another minor commemorative tablet placed during Albany’s celebration of the bicentennial of its charter, in 1886 – this one for Franklin Street, which was a bit more of […]
The 39th in our series of Albany Bicentennial tablets was one that simply provided the name and former name of Norton Street: Tablet No. 39—Norton StreetBronze tablet, 7×16 inches, north […]
Here’s another Albany Bicentennial marker that commemorated a street that today we barely know exists. The extent of the copy was always very limited, as described by the Bicentennial Committee […]
For the 37th Bicentennial tablet, it’s rather remarkable that it still exists – given that much of the street it commemorates was annihilated for the construction of the Empire State […]
Here we are at number 36 in our series of tablets placed in honor of Albany’s charter bicentennial in 1886. Tablet No. 36—James Street. Bronze tablet, 7×16 inches, on Mechanics […]
The 35th tablet placed in honor of the bicentennial of Albany’s charter, in 1886, was another of the handful that simply commemorated a street: State Street. Unfortunately, this is another […]
The 34th in our series of Albany Bicentennial tablets is a bit of a mystery – and perhaps it was never installed at all. And if you’ve lived in Albany […]
As we said last time, with these last several tablets commemorating Albany’s 1886 bicentennial, we’re down to honoring streets instead of people. This one was for Hamilton Street: Tablet No. […]