Schenectady at the Turn of the Century...

Schenectady, NY - Franny Wentzel - Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 : goo

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Images of Schenectady from over 100 years ago...

The Plotterkill Falls a nature area outside of town

St. Georges Church - built in the 1700s located in the Stockade district.

First Reformed Church - also in the Stockade

Union Classical Institute - Schenectady's first High School - building now in private hands

Union Street - in Stockade - pretty much still there

Foot of Sate Street - all buildings gone now

Yates House - one of the oldest in the area - still standing

The Old Courthouse - privately owned now

Masonic Temple - now a theater

Church Street - in the Stockade - buildings on left gone but everything else is still there

Union Street - Homes by Henry H Richardson - converted to apartments

Glen Sanders Mansion - Scotia, NY - built in the 1700s - now restaurant and catering hall

Glen Sanders Mansion - colonial swag in attic

Scotia Bridge - a wooden suspension bridge - replaced with an iron bridge by Schenectady Railway Co - that bridge has since been removed

Statue of 'Lawrance' on site of the old fort - confluence of Front, Green & Ferry Streets in Stockade

Mohawk River

There's surprisingly little river frontage acessable to the public in this town

Erie Canal looking south from State Street - filled in the 1920s to create Erie Blvd

Looking east from same spot - in 1930s top three floors of turreted building were demolished and rest of building remodeled for shops

Second Ellis Hospital building - demolished in 1930s for new City Hall

State Armory - demolished in 1940s - stones used for a church uptown

State Street Methodist Church - once the edge of town now the upper end of downtown

Corner of Union Street and Union Avenue near Union College

Union College - South Dorm

Union College - Nott Memorial

American Locomotive plant - company folded in 1968 and most buildings demolished

Alco shop floor - for a brief period Alco produced a motorcar and during WWII they produced tanks

GE Plant - most of these buildings have since been replace or removed

GE Plant - Offices - still standing

GE Plant - Building 10 - electric turbo-generators were produced here

GE Plant - Building 16

Work was moved to larger buildings in 1930s much of the older plant has since been demolished to avoid paying property taxes

GE Plant - Foundry - employment has dwindled from a peak of around 40.000 during the war to only a few thousand today

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