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Crummey Baker
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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 Pearl, at the corner of Columbia. He made hot rolls every morning, and tea biscuits every afternoon. Not to mention le pain Français every…
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John Gavit, engraver to the world
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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). Like many printers of the day, they did a little bit of everything, in a quality that no doubt we would weep over today.…
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Charles Van Heusen and the Presidential Seal
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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 Broadway. He had a bit of loveliness built at 6 Madison Place, just below the cathedral; it was built in 1848 by David Orr.…
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George B. Withers, Silver Plater
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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 silver door plates, carriage plates, letters, figures and crests, it wouldn’t surprise me a bit if somewhere one of the older buildings of Albany…
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The Ten Eyck Hotel
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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, the second version of a landmark built by John Tweddle at the Elm Tree Corner, northwest corner of State and Pearl. The lovely structure…
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When Albany was dapper
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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 in a crosswalk when it was still possible to do so and not evoke The Beatles. Or these two gents, one with a seemingly…
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The Ten Eyck
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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 State Street, just above the Elm Tree Corner and Tweddle Hall. It was on the corner of Chapel, which then went through all the…
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$10 down and $2 a week
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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 stops 18 and 19 on the Schenectady Railway Company trolley line to Albany, somewhere in Colonie. As far as we can tell, Birchwood Park…
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