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New York Governor John Alden Dix lived at 491 State Street before and after his term in office. [6] 423 State Street is owned by the University at Albany and used by its Center for Legislative Development. [38] At 465 State Street is the Benjamin Walworth Arnold House and Carriage House, the only buildings in Albany designed by Stanford White. [39]
Albany (/ ˈ ɔː l b ə n i / ⓘ AWL-bə-nee) is the capital and oldest city in the U.S. state of New York, and the seat of and most populous city in Albany County.It is located on the west bank of the Hudson River, about 10 miles (16 km) south of its confluence with the Mohawk River.
The Downtown Albany Historic District is a 19-block, 66.6-acre (27.0 ha) area of Albany, New York, United States, centered on the junction of State (New York State Route 5) and North and South Pearl streets (New York State Route 32). It is the oldest settled area of the city, originally planned and settled in the 17th century, and the nucleus ...
The district occupies the southeastern portion of Albany's Arbor Hill neighborhood. Its southern corner is Sweet Pilgrim Baptist Church at the junction of Ten Broeck Street and Clinton Avenue (part of U.S. Route 9), a block west of the Palace Theatre and across from Albany's Family Court building.
The scale of the buildings in the plaza is imposing, and the complex is the most easily recognizable aspect of the Albany skyline. The 44-story Corning Tower is the tallest building in New York State outside of New York City, and features an observation deck on its 42nd floor. It is free and open to the public on weekdays.
In 1864 the state of New York passed Laws of 1864 Chapter 434, entitled AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to form a separate road district of all that part of the city of Albany lying west of Allen street, and to exempt the same from certain taxes.", banned the city from improving, grading, or opening Madison Ave west from Allen Street to ...
The building's namesake, Alfred Emmanuel Smith, was a four-term governor of New York and the Democratic Party's nomination for the 1928 presidential election. The Art Deco skyscraper has 34 stories and is Albany's second tallest structure (after the Erastus Corning Tower ) at 388 feet (118 m).
A 1695 engraved map of Albany depicts the Stadt Huys at that location. [19] Delegates converse outside the Stadt Huys during the Albany Congress. A new city hall was probably built on the site around 1740; [15] historians at the New York State Museum (NYSM) put its completion date as the following year. [18]