From the “Albany Tourist’s Handy Guide,” by John D. Whish, 1900: A Day in AlbanyFor the leisurely traveler, a day or more in Albany offers many pleasures. If a general […]

If you live in one of the fine Pine Hills homes built by the Albany Land Improvement and Building Co. somewhere around 1890, when streetcar travel started to make the […]

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. […]

Today, Albany’s once famous Elm Tree Corner, where Philip Livingston’s elm grew for 142 years, is graced with a bland brick facade. A tablet originally placed on the bank building […]

For someone whose name was once synonymous with Albany’s crossroads, having built Tweddle Hall there, it’s surprising that we no longer remember John Tweddle. And yet, he is responsible for […]

Publisher Joel Munsell in his “Annals of Albany” gives us the story of the building that followed the Websters’ printing concern at the Old Elm Tree Corner, the northwest corner […]

Hoxsie will have more next week on the Old Elm Tree Corner, where the Livingstons lived it up. Meanwhile, on the opposite corner of State and Pearl streets was the […]

Long-time Albany residents and readers of this page are probably familiar with some of the old newspaper names of Albany: Times, Knickerbocker News, Albany Gazette, Albany Argus. The Post, the […]

Image via Wikipedia As noted yesterday, Noah Webster was a cousin to prominent Albany publisher Charles Webster, who set up shop on the Old Elm Tree Corner at State and […]