The Sheridan Avenue Steam (and Electricity) Plant
The Sheridan Avenue steam plant, at somewhere north of 100 years in service, is one of the older bits of civil infrastructure around. @willwaldron from the Times-Union posted a photo […]
The Sheridan Avenue steam plant, at somewhere north of 100 years in service, is one of the older bits of civil infrastructure around. @willwaldron from the Times-Union posted a photo […]
Some time ago, Hoxsie came to the possibly supported conclusion (well, been wrong before) that the oldest remaining business in Albany is The Woodward Company, which currently sells fasteners way […]
Some time ago I said “It’s not possible to be interested in Albany history and not to owe a debt of gratitude to Joel Munsell.” He was a fine printer […]
In a non-regular feature that we will not be calling “Phoenixville Phriday,” Hoxsie is going to step away from chronicling historical trivia of its ancestral lands and momentarily turn its […]
Well, we just had to find out a little bit more about Pirie MacDonald, the celebrated photographer of men who was raised in Troy, apprenticed in Hudson, and got his […]
Pirie MacDonald may have been the most famous photographer Albany ever produced. He was born in Chicago in 1867, but his parents moved to Troy. In 1883 he apprenticed in […]
Henry Mayell & Son was established sometime in the 1850s, and by 1894 proclaimed itself Albany’s headquarters for rubber goods, located at the corner of State and Broadway, its curved […]
John Skinner was an Albany bookseller active around the turn of those other centuries (this is from the 1894 guide to Albany’s public schools). Beyond that, all we know is […]
We’ve been reviewing Albany’s numerous schools from 1894. Each of those schools had anywhere from seven to 18 teachers. To fill teaching slots today, we have strict educational requirements, civil […]
This lovely ad from 1894 is for Van Gaasbeek’s carpet store on North Pearl Street, opposite the Kenmore Hotel. Cuyler Reynolds, in the 1911 “Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs,” told […]