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Photographer: Steve Stoessel
Taken: March 31, 2019
Caption: A Local Landmark
Additional Description: When occupied as a private residence, the Alcove Christian Fellowship held its services on this site for a time burned the building burned in 1985. Until purchased by the Open Space Institute in 2003 in 2003, the site was neglected and overgrown.

The site was purchased from Albany County in 2003 by the Open Space Institute, deeding it to the Alcove Preservation Society to preserve the site as open space, to develop it as a public passive park, and to recognize its historic significance with the construction of this kiosk.

In 2006, the site was placed on both the National Register of Historic Places and the New York State Register of Historic Places.

In 2014, ownership of this site was transferred to the Town of Coeymans under a cooperative management agreement with the Association to maintain and develop the site as Valley Paper Mill Park. An original historic roadside marker placed in the last century by the New York State Department of Education was replaced in 2015 with the present marker by the Alcove Preservation Association funded by a grant from the William G. Pomeroy Foundation.

The park site’s plant bed, bench, seats, and roadside fence were constructed using local Alcove bluestone salvaged from the foundation of the original mill.
Submitted: April 4, 2019, by Steve Stoessel of Niskayuna, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p468908
File Size: 1.021 Megabytes

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