House of the Week: Townhouse in Albany
This week’s selection is a townhouse in Center Square, Albany, with a garage. The home at 97 Chestnut St. was originally a carriage house, and the facade is 100 years old. The rest is 30-year-old...
View ArticleArchitecture: Cape Cods
The Cape emerged not long after the Colonialists settled in the New World. The original Capes were no-frills structures, typically with shingled roofs and exterior walls, that had steep roofs to shed...
View ArticleSold! 207 2nd St., Troy
The rowhouse at 207 2nd St. in Troy, House of the Week on April 10, has sold. After six days on market, there were three offers, each above the asking price of $299,000. A sale on the property closed...
View ArticleGE Realty Plot house and garden tour this weekend
The annual GE Realty Plot House & Garden Tour is happening Saturday and Sunday. This year’s event will showcase 6 historic homes within the GE Realty Plot including: The 1902 ‘James P. Felton’...
View ArticleHouse of the Week: Ranch in Niskayuna
This week’s selection is an executive ranch at 1170 Mohawk Road, Niskayuna that has been expanded twice to create 4,390 square feet of living space on a secluded, 7-acre lot. Owner William Vosecek –...
View ArticleHouse of the Week: Colonial in Cohoes
This week’s house could be filed under the following categories: “priced for regular people” and “darling.” Stratford Court is a leafy, attractive street and the brick house at #15 is solid and...
View ArticleProposal for 66 Franklin St., Saratoga Springs
Remember 66 Franklin St.? It was an old house on the West Side that was demolished two years ago. Now plans for houses on the lot have popped up on the agenda for Wednesday’s Design Review Commission...
View ArticleAlbany house and garden tour June 25
The 40th annual Hidden City House and Garden Tour is next Thursday, June 25. Between 10 and 15 homes in the Center Square area will be open to the public. Members of Capital Roots will be in Hudson-Jay...
View ArticleFrom Broadway to Spring Street on a flat bed truck
Quick, what does 522 Broadway in Saratoga Springs look like? Did you picture this? That’s what’s there now, the Saratoga Hilton. But 37 years ago, the building that is now home to the Bread Basket...
View ArticleHouse of the Week: Spanish Revival in Albany
This week’s selection is one of the Spanish revival style homes in Albany’s Pine Hills neighborhood. There were 27 houses built in Winchester Gables in the late 1920s and ’30s, an enclave of stucco and...
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