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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: July 12, 2017
Caption: Albany Academy Buliding - 1817
Additional Description: In 1815, Philip Hooker, then Albany's most prominent architect, appeared before the school's building committee. He had at that point already designed the nearby City Hall and State Capitol buildings (both since replaced), and pointed to his years of experience and his "close application in the research of ancient and modern architecture." Mayor Philip S. Van Rensselaer laid the building's cornerstone after Hooker got the commission. This new Albany Academy building was opened in 1817. For the remainder of the 19th century, the school stayed in Hooker's building, Later in the 1930s, the Albany City School District moved into the building and has used it as its main offices ever since.
Submitted: April 23, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p424559
File Size: 3.441 Megabytes

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