August Walkabout Wednesday Tour: Washington Avenue

August Walkabout Wednesday Tour: Washington Avenue

Wednesday, August 15, 2018, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

Wednesday, August 15th • 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Meet at the northeast corner of Swan and State Streets, near the State Education Building

Historic Albany Foundation, with grants from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Preservation League
of New York State, is working toward listing portions of Washington and Western Avenues from the Alfred
E. Smith Building to the Downtown SUNY Campus on the National Register nomination as Albany’s
newest historic district.

Join our consultant, Chris Brazee, for a tour of a portion of the proposed district
and take in the eclectic mixture of architecture that has arisen along the gateway to Albany’s civic core.

Throwback Thursday Tour: Mansion Neighborhood

Throwback Thursday Tour: Mansion Neighborhood

Thursday, August 2, 2018, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

Bleecker Park
7 Madison Pl
Albany, NY, 12202
United States

Thursday, August 2nd, 5:30PM

Bleecker Park at Madison Place and Eagle Street

Tour the Mansion Neighborhood with City Historian Tony Opalka. Take in the handiwork of some of Albany's best builders: Cunningham and Orr's Gothic rowhouses, with design elements they pilfered from A. J. Davis' plans for Joel Rathbone's estate Kenwood; and James Eatons' Italianate Elm Street homes, among others.