In 1885, American Architect and Building News named "The Best Ten Buildings in the United States."
Two of those selected were the New York State Capitol and Albany City Hall, before you and to your right. The Capitol was chosen . . . — — Map (db m116699) HM
The grand building before you is home to the headquarters of The State University of New York (SUNY).
Founded in 1948, SUNY is the largest comprehensive system of public higher education in the United States. Among the system's 64 . . . — — Map (db m116667) HM
Formerly Union Station Listed on The National Register of Historic Places Constructed 1898-1900 for New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Restored and renovated 1984-1986 by Norstar Bankcorp — — Map (db m149334) HM
The Lakehouse that appears in these images is very different than the building that stands in front of you. The existing Lakehouse, designed by J. Russell White, was built of brick and terra cotta in 1929. It replaced the original 1875 wood . . . — — Map (db m144255) HM
Attained its present form in the years 1869-1884 Design attributed to the concepts of renowned Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmsted — — Map (db m138130) HM
The Village's First Freight and passenger train station was built in 1864, only months after the first train passed through Knowersville. In 1896 the old station was moved south along the tracks. In 1897, it was replaced by the . . . — — Map (db m115732) HM
St. John’s Lutheran Church, designed by Albany architect Charles Nichols and built by contractor George Rockefeller in 1871-72 was the first church built in Knowersville. The original church building was 42 x 62 feet and, completely . . . — — Map (db m131427) HM
built 1890-1891 by volunteers of A.E. Crandall Hook & Ladder Co. for fire dept. and community events. Became village hall 1973. — — Map (db m171914) HM
Founded 1805 by Judge Phillip Church; named for his
mother Angelica Schuyler Church, a sister-in-law of
Alexander Hamilton. Judge Church designed the Park
Circle with public buildings on the perimeter and the
Town Park in the center. Angelica . . . — — Map (db m159374) HM
Here was located
the house in which
Willard-J-Houghton
was born July 19, 1825
The foundation stones of this
house form the cross in this
memorial which was erected
by the Class of 1925, the first to
graduate from Houghton . . . — — Map (db m155776) HM
David A Howe, born in West Almond, was raised in Wellsville and attended Dickenson Seminary (present day Lycoming College) in Williamsport, PA. He worked in Wellsville before moving to the Williamsport area where he was involved in many business . . . — — Map (db m170713) HM
You are standing in historic Astor Court, wit its symmetrical great lawn and surrounding classical buildings. The Wildlife Conservation Society, founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society, opened the Bronx Zoo in 1899.
A Foundation . . . — — Map (db m193296) HM
The Heinrich Heine Fountain (also known as the Lorelei Fountain) honors the German poet, writer, and social dissident Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), whose poem Die Lorelei immortalized the mysterious creature of romantic legend.
Born in . . . — — Map (db m228750) HM
The Heinrich Heine Fountain (also called The Lorelei Fountain) honors the German poet and writer (1797-1856) whose poem "Die Lorelei" immortalized the siren of Romantic legend. The marble sculptural group depicts Lorelei seated on a rock in the . . . — — Map (db m228752) HM
The Home for the Friendless, also known as the Woody Crest Home, was constructed in 1901-02 to the design of prominent architect William B. Tuthill. Built for abandoned and needy children, the home was established by the American Female Guardian . . . — — Map (db m133507) HM
Designed in an English Gothic style by James Renwick, architect of St. Patrick's Cathedral, this church was built in 1863, funds having been contributed by residents of Riverdale including William E. Dodge, Jr., Joseph Delafield, Robert Colgate and . . . — — Map (db m193302) HM
Padre Plaza honors Father Roger Giglio (1943-1990), founder of St. Benedict the Moor Neighborhood Center. A native of Woburn, Massachusetts, Father Giglio was ordained in 1970 and served as the director of the Christian Formation Retreat Center . . . — — Map (db m209734) HM
The architectural artifacts on display inside Hostos Community College were salvaged from Public School 31, which stood on this site from 1899 until 2015. Seen in the photo above, P.S. 31 was constructed as the population of Mott Haven and the . . . — — Map (db m241537) HM
How did this become a monument?
The efforts to create a Memorial Grove coincided with a plan to erect a unified monument that would honor all servicemen from the Bronx. Bronx Parks Commissioner Thomas J. Dolen submitted plans for the war . . . — — Map (db m226278) HM
Completed in 1937 under the supervision of the U.S. Treasury Architect Louis Simon, in accordance with the design of Thomas Harlan Ellett, the building was executed in a style that combines Classical simplicity with the sleekness of Modernism. It is . . . — — Map (db m183128) HM
First hospital on the United States dedicated to the treatmemt of alcoholism.
Placed by the New York State Society of the National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor
Mrs. James V. Fiori
State President
1997 — — Map (db m149561) HM
Built by Cornelius & Barbara Bevier circa 1850. Purchased 1889 by Otsego County native & Civil War veteran William Wright for 3,000.00. W. E. Wright was a carpenter, general contractor & proprietor of two stove & tinware stores in Binghamton. . . . — — Map (db m94390) HM
State Bank of Randolph opened here July 1, 1874 with $65,000 capital stock invested by 14 shareholders. Operated over 100 years. — — Map (db m171598) HM
Erected by village 1904-1905. Housed Rescue Hook & Ladder Company, Hose Company #1 and Village Board rooms. Served village 99 years. — — Map (db m171597) HM
Built 1812. Judge Walter Wood
Co-founder Cayuga Academy
1801. First Judge Cayuga County
1810-17. Taught Pres. Fillmore
Law 1819-21, while living here. — — Map (db m205461) HM
School House Built 1825 District No. 16 New York State and National Registers of Historic Sites, 2003 ———— Sterling Historical Society Est. 1976 Little Red School House Museum — — Map (db m79777) HM
Schooner master & stonemason. Carved stones for early Cornell U. buildings & former Cornell Public Library in Ithaca. Lived here 1907-1913 — — Map (db m223920) HM
Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 by the United States Department of the Interior.
Brocton Arch Erected 1913
With unprecedented growth of the village, the Village of Brocton and Town of Portland wanted . . . — — Map (db m96609) HM
Designed by Beck and Tinkham Architects Built in 1927 for Perry W. Goodwin Superintendent of Lake View Cemetery Assoc. LACAPJamestown.org — — Map (db m177998) HM
Designed by Beck & Tinkham Architects Built in 1923 for W.F. Liedblad Sec/Treasurer of Marvel Furniture Co. ”Liedblad House” LACAPJamestown.org — — Map (db m178161) HM
Designed by Raymond Freeburg A.H. FidlerArchitects Built in 1920 for Luther M. Butman President of ACME/Empire Worsted Mills ”Butman House” LACAPJamestown.org — — Map (db m178160) HM
Designed by C.A. Fullerton Chicago Architect Built in 1898 for George Ahrens Oil Baron who made his fortune in PA. known as “Ahrens Mansion” LACAPJamestown.org — — Map (db m178062) HM
Designed by E.G. Dietrich Architect Built in 1896 for Frederick P. Hall Owner and Publisher for 63 years of Jamestown Journal later known as The Post Journal LACAPJamestown.org — — Map (db m178149) HM
Designed by Beck & Tinkham Architects Built in 1920 for Levant M. Hall Sec/Advertising Mgr of Journal Printing Co ”Levant Hall House” LACAPJamestown.org — — Map (db m178129) HM
Designed by Raymond A. Freeburg Architect Built in 1924 for Paul Labarbera owner of ”Paul’s Tavern” 9 E. Second Street LACAPJamestown.org — — Map (db m178163) HM
Designed by G. Freeburg & H. Fidler Jamestown Architects Built in 1909 family home of Franklin W. & Clara Bigelow owners of Bigelows Department Store LACAPJamestown.org — — Map (db m178146) HM
Designed by Carl C. Pedersen Danish American Architect Built in 1905 for Lynn F. Cornell Sec/Treasurer of Jamestown Lounge Co. ”L. F. Cornell House” LACAPJamestown.org — — Map (db m178118) HM
Designed by Johnson & Ford Beck & Tinkham Architects Built in 1916, 1925 for Mrs. Walter C. Davis Commercial Rep. for companies in Jamestown LACAPJamestown.org — — Map (db m177996) HM
Designed by Carl C. Pedersen Danish American Architect Built in 1905 for Mr. Seneca Burchard Wholesaler Wilcox Burchard & Co. Wholesale Grocers LACAPJamestown.org — — Map (db m177997) HM
Designed by Freeburg & Fidler Architects Built in 1911 for Erwin Shearman Treasurer/Mgr of Salisbury Wheel & Mfg Co. ”Shearman House” LACAPJamestown.org — — Map (db m178122) HM
Designed by Raymond A. Freeburg Jamestown Architect Built in 1926 Family home of Lars Larson Mayor of Jamestown 1928-1930 LACAPJamestown.org — — Map (db m178079) HM
Designed by Oliver R. Johnson Architect Built in 1925 for Lake View Cemetery Board of Trustees Lakeview Avenue Cemetery Admin. Building LACAPJamestown.org — — Map (db m177995) HM
Designed by Beck & Tinkham Architects Built in 1954 for J. Russell Rogerson, Attorney and buried directly across in the cemetery LACAPJamestown.org — — Map (db m178112) HM
Designed by Beck and Tinkham Architects Built in 1929 Designed by Norman M. Tinkham Architect for himself & family The “Tinkham House” LACAPJamestown.org — — Map (db m178103) HM
Jamestown Architectural Heritage 413 N. Main Street Second Empire Designed by Milton Earl Beebe Buffalo Architect Built in 1881 - 1882 for George Washington Tew President of City National Bank in 1880 Tew Mansion was later purchased by . . . — — Map (db m94873) HM
Paul Arthur Sorg. Bide-A-Bit 1906. Arthur Sorg was the son of an affluent resident of Middletown, Ohio. His father, P.J. Sorg, was associated with the American Tobacco Company. The family spent summers in Lakewood in the 1890's and early part of . . . — — Map (db m105892) HM
Guilford Center Presbyterian Church has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 by the United States Department of the Interior
William G.Pomeroy Foundation
2017 — — Map (db m149752) HM
This building was used to
conduct classes in
District 12, 1890 to 1929
District 14, 1931 to 1947
This schoolhouse given in memory of
James A. & Anna O.C. Kehoe
By
Hermene & Bill Kehoe
1991 — — Map (db m93162) HM
Olana was the home of Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900). Church's great talent was recognized early in his life. By age 20, he had his own studio and was a well-known artist. He traveled extensively in North and South . . . — — Map (db m143295) HM
Frederic Church designed his house and surroundings as a work of art, a home for his family, and a place of beauty and repose. The Churches first used the name Olana to refer to the house and grounds in 1878. Olana may be a variation of the name of . . . — — Map (db m242317) HM
In the mid-19th century, Frederic Church (1826-1900) emerged as the leading painter of the American landscape. Church's skill at artistic composition clearly influenced the development
of this landscape and the spectacular views that make up the . . . — — Map (db m242290) HM
Frederic Church transformed a treeless hillside into
the wooded park you see across the lake. There, on 31
acres, he planted hundreds of trees and shrubs, singly
and in clumps, in a landscape design conceived in
the Picturesque Style (a . . . — — Map (db m132074) HM
Although Frederic Church painted at his
Hudson Valley farm from the time he
purchased it in 1860, he did not build a
studio here until about 1864-65. On the
site where you are standing, he erected a
"plain but ample” 24-foot-square, . . . — — Map (db m137805) HM
When wood was the major fuel for heating and cooking, woodsheds like the one located here and elsewhere on the farm provided a place to store firewood and keep it dry. Harvested from Olana’s woodlots, trees were cut into logs and shorter lengths at . . . — — Map (db m132331) HM
Dutch boeren (farmers) began settling the fertile lowlands southeast of Albany in the mid 1600s, establishing cultural strongholds along the Hudson River and its tributaries. For more than a century after the English takeover of New Netherland in . . . — — Map (db m243811) HM
Built for Kelly Brothers
for easier cow care.
Meade family ran dairy
farm through 1963.
Reconstructed 1988
State and National Register of Historic Places — — Map (db m132124) HM
Helen Gould, daughter of the financier Jay Gould became enchanted with the village of Roxbury where her father was born and raised. In 1894 she purchased the property next to the Gould Family church which she had helped to build. Ms. Gould . . . — — Map (db m180669) HM
The Dutch Reformed Church in Roxbury was organized in 1802. In the following years, two church buildings were destroyed by wind and
one by fire. In the 1890s Jay Gould promised aid for a stone church but died before any agreement had been made. So . . . — — Map (db m180671) HM
A prominent Greek Revival style building in
the Main Street Historic District, the Methodist church was built in 1858. In
1869 the church society built the present commodious parsonage on the lot adjoining the church.
The church building was . . . — — Map (db m180673) HM
The Roxbury Central School (RCS), is a Tudor Revival style building symbolizing the period of centralization in the development of the New York educational system. The facility was designed by Albany architect Harold O. Fullerton. Built as a . . . — — Map (db m180677) HM
Whereas, when Ron and Ronnie Sauers arrived in Beacon in the mid-1980's, Main Street buildings were boarded up with plywood and covered in graffiti, but Ron and Ronnie saw an opportunity to revitalize Beacon; and
Whereas, Ron and Ronnie Sauers . . . — — Map (db m144536) HM
"There was not one of them who did not think, and sometimes say, that his or her country seat was the choicest spot on the Hudson River; and that if there was nothing like it on the Hudson River, there was nothing like it in the world, for . . . — — Map (db m210406) HM
The building in front of you is the nation’s first presidential library. FDR was deeply involved in every facet of the library’s development. He envisioned the library as a place where the public could examine the evidence of his Presidency and . . . — — Map (db m83109) HM
Welcome to the Hyde Park Train Station. For more than a century, passenger trains traveling on the New York Central Railroad's New York City to Albany line stopped at this station. The first station on this site was completed in 1851. President . . . — — Map (db m146968) HM
“Rough Stonework a Specialty”
Rocks abound throughout the region in fields, streams, and forest glens. They were incorporated into structures and stone walls that line roadways and delineate old pastureland. In the hands of skilled . . . — — Map (db m140114) HM
The Mid-Hudson Bridge utilizes heavy cables suspended between towers and vertical suspender cables to carry the traffic deck.
Background photo courtesy New York State Bridge Authority. — — Map (db m145001) HM
The Mid-Hudson Bridge's main suspension cables are 16 ¾ inches in diameter, span 3,000 feet, and are anchored at each end of the bridge.
Background photograph courtesy New York State Bridge Authority — — Map (db m145295) HM
has been placed on the National Register of Historical Places in 1979 by The United States Department of the InteriorWilliam G. Pomeroy Foundation 2019 • 201 — — Map (db m136100) HM
The bridge's cantilevered spans are supported on only one end by rectangular truss spans (left). The traveling derrick on top of the bridge was used as a temporary work station to construct the bridge's structural system.
Background . . . — — Map (db m145293) HM
Standing witness to the city's stature, this manicured mix of distinctive homes recalls the aspirations of the inventors, industrialists, and civic leaders who called Poughkeepsie home over a century ago. Comprised of four national historic . . . — — Map (db m144741) HM
Built brick house here before
1797. Was Capt. during
Revolution, Gen. of State
Militia State Senator and
Presidential Elector 1812. — — Map (db m192411) HM
Built 1865 for Allen B. and
Anna R. Hendricks in the
octagonal & concrete form
popularized by O.S. Fowler.
Red Hook Library since 1935 — — Map (db m128010) HM
Some 12,000 years ago, after the glaciers receded and melt waters carved out water courses, a forested river valley formed here. In 1609 Henry Hudson sailed up the Muhheakantuk ("The River that Flows Two Ways") and met the local Algonquian-speaking . . . — — Map (db m146974) HM
This brick and stone mansion was built circa 1876 for
Robert Borthwick Adam (1833-1904), founder of Buffalo's
famed retailer Adam, Meldrum & Anderson. One of
many distinguished homes erected in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries on Buffalo's . . . — — Map (db m130992) HM
This structure has been recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey of the United States Department of the Interior for its archives at the Library of Congress — — Map (db m92938) HM
The Market Square Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. The district is representative of the period 1830-1912 as Lower Black Rock evolved from a small independent village to a small independent . . . — — Map (db m93793) HM
Today, the West Village, which has always been a residential community, has been designated an historic district under the City of Buffalo and New York State's Landmark and Preservation Ordinance, and the federal National Register of Historic . . . — — Map (db m177865) HM
The vista along Court Street from Niagara Square to Lafayette Square embraces a continuum of human struggle for freedom and justice. In the center of the vista stands a monument to the soldiers and sailors who perished in the war to preserve the . . . — — Map (db m92834) HM
Ellicott Square Building Opened by Ellicott Square Company in 1896 as largest office building in world. Daniel H. Burnham, architect. Steel frame, brick and terra cotta exterior, Italian marble, ornamental iron decorations, and marble mosaic . . . — — Map (db m92875) HM
From Frontier to Major City
In the early 1800s, Buffalo was a sleepy village known as New Amsterdam, on the edge of America's then western frontier. Holland Land Company surveyor Joseph Ellicott, inspired by Pierre L'Enfant's radial . . . — — Map (db m92798) HM
Conceived in 1804 by Joseph Ellicott (right), Niagara Square was the beginning of what renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted would in mid-century call "the best planned city as to its streets, public places, and grounds in the United . . . — — Map (db m92820) HM
The presence of a vast inland sea and its wide river tributary in western New York soon attracted settlers. The tiny village of Black Rock, north of Ellicott's Niagara Square, was expected to flourish, however, not Buffalo. Black Rock already has an . . . — — Map (db m92835) HM
Prudential (Guaranty) Building Architect, Louis H. Sullivan, called the father of modern American architecture Early all-steel frame office bldg. with fine terra cotta veneer Built in 1895 — — Map (db m92846) HM
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