The Ten Eyck Hotel
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, […]
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 […]
By the 1920s, Albany had pretty much filled out to its current extent; the wide open lands of Pine Hills had been built up in the 1890s, and the trolleys […]
In 1917, George wanted to let Miss Blanche Barker of Turin, N.Y., know that he’d be spending his vacation in Albany Sunday. Hoxsie’s taking a little vacation, too. Back in […]
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 […]
It tickles Hoxsie’s cockles that so many beautiful, important, historic buildings in Troy are seeing renovation and reuse. Not least of these is the building constructed by William H. Young, […]
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 […]
So in 1958, my grandfather’s short-lived drive-in restaurant in Aqueduct apparently featured a jukebox, as just about any respectable diner of the day would have have done. He apparently rented […]