Saturday, July 3, 2021
Unfortunate circumstances brought us to Central New York - a memorial service for the beloved father of our daughter-in-law. It seemed the heavens wept tears of rain for the event.
Little Falls, NY is located on the Mohawk River, which descends 45'/14 m in less than one mile/1.6 km, creating cascades or rapids that give the city its name.
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Former Herkimer County Trust Company (1833, by
David Chase and Robert Stewart in Greek Revival style)
is now the Little Falls Historical Society & Museum |
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A mural of the bounty of farms as the area was settled by
German Palatines fleeing persecution in Europe; from
1864-1870 Little Falls was the Cheese Capital of the World |
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Little Falls Post Office (1907-1909, by James Knox Taylor
in Beaux-Arts style; 1938-1940 addition) |
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| YMCA (1911-1913 as the Presbyterian Parish House) |
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David Petrie House (1825 in transitional style from
Federal to Greek Revival, with Victorian features) |
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Benton House (1826-1827, in Federal style with Greek Revival
portico) now is used by the Women's Christian Association |
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| James Sanders House (1827, by James Sanders in Federal style) |
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| Tomei House (1860 in Italianate style) |
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Zoller House (1879 in Second Empire style?)
was visited by Susan B Anthony |
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Burrell House (1903, attributed to Dwight James Baum,
in Colonial Revival style with Craftsman touches) |
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| Schafsteck House (1890 in Queen Anne style) |
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Benedict House (1850-1866 in transitional
Gothic Revival to Italianate style) |
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Solomon Petrie House (1866 in transitional
style with a "New Orleans" balcony) |
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| Babinec House (1902 in Colonial Revival style) |
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| Fisher House (1890, 1930s remodel in Craftsman style) |
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| Little Falls Library (1876-1878 in Second Empire style) |
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| Loomis-Burrell House (1832, 1874 remodel in Italianate style) |
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Little Falls City Hall (1916-1918, by William Neil Smith,
in Beaux-Arts style) |
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| City Hall includes the police and fire departments! |
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| German Maennerchor Building (1830-1850 in Federal style) |
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| E Main Street in downtown Little Falls |
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| Emmanuel Episcopal Church (1835) |
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| Ward House (1860 in Italianate style) |
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Holy Family Church (1874-1878, in
Gothic style) is built with locally quarried stone |
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Remnant of Lock 36 of the 1825 Erie Canal
that went from Albany to Buffalo, ultimately connecting
the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River |
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Lock 17 (1908-1912, replacing four locks on the 1825
Erie Canal) of the wider Barge Canal (completed 1918) |
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Italian Community Bake Oven (1891) provided bread for
Italian immigrant railroad workers from 1891-1893 |
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| NY-167 Scenic Overlook view of the Mohawk River valley |
Dolgeville, NY was founded in 1794 by Samuel Low who built two mills. The name was changed to honor Alfred Dolge, a pioneering and benevolent industrialist. In addition to factories, Dolge built a railroad, laid out the village, built two schools (including the first public kindergarten in NY in 1889), installed an electricity system (the first upstate NY village lighted by electricity in 1891), a running-water and sewage system, a fire department, a free library, a concert hall, a gymnasium, public parks, a newspaper, and established a pension and profit-sharing plan for his employees, contributing to the concept of social security.
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Once upon a time it was Walmart putting local retailers
out of business, now Dollar General is popping up in
even smaller communities across the country and they
have more stores than McDonald's has restaurants |
We can attest to the fact that Dollar General has a presence across this country, with some no more than 10 miles apart.
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| Auskerada Place (1940?) seems to now be a community center |
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Dolgeville-Manheim Museum (1890 as a
commercial structure, 1901 converted to the
Alfred Dolge Hose Co #1 Building, until 1991) |
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Dolgeville Post Office (1939-1940, by Louis A Simon,
in Colonial Revival style) |
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| Masonic Temple (no info) |
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Dolgeville Mill (1886 as the Alfred Dolge and Sons Felt and
Sounding Board factories) was more recently the Daniel Green
Company Factory Complex manufacturing slippers and shoes
until 1999, but at the moment the complex is empty |
Dolgeville Mill claims to be the home of Thomas Edison's first electric dynamo (1879) powered by water, although it is no longer present.
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Breckwoldt-Ward House (1893, in Queen Anne style) that
was owned by Judge George Ward from 1903-1918, who was
the prosecutor in the 1906 murder trial of Chester Gillette |
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| Gateway lamp at the Menge House Complex |
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Menge House (1893, in Queen Anne style);
William Menge manufactured special
machinery for Alfred Dolge and Sons |
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