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Carthage, Watertown & Sackets Harbor Rail Road Depot, Built in 1871, Becomes Marcy-Buck Building Before

The Carlisle At 273 Paddock Street – Named After 3rd Owner, Floyd L. Carlisle The

Old Court Street City Hall – Erected In Controversy, Demolished In Controversy It’s pretty evident

Woolworth Relocating To 146 Arsenal Street – The Urban Renewal’s “Success” Story When the city

James F. Starbuck, Prominent Attorney, and Later State Senator, Builds Starbuck Mansion At 253 Clinton

The Hungerford Mansion Will Be 200 Years Old In 2025 Orville Hungerford would have the

George C. Boldt Builds Mansion On Belle Island, Sells It To Former Carnegie Vice President

The Crystal Restaurant On Public Square, Since 1925 In the opening of his review of

Watertown Chamber of Commerce Lures Shaughnessy Knitting Mill To City in 1909 According to a

Many Prominent Owners Of The Old O’Brien House At 216 Keyes Ave Over The Years

Wall Street Broker Charles I. Hudson Built “The Ledges” at Anthony Point In 1885 In

Benny’s Steak House Had Three Different Locations Before Closing In 2006 Benny’s Steak House was

Micah Sterling Builds Sterling Mansion, Later Becomes Home To Holy Family School Sterling Mansion would

Anson R. And Roswell P. Flower Erect A New Trinity Church On Sherman Street With

Louis Marx Purchases Melrose Lodge, Expands Upon It And Renames “Casa Blanca” Casa Blanca (also

Harriett Pullman Carolan Builds Carolands Chateau In San Francisco Bay Area Taking nearly two years

Giovanni’s: A Terrific Trattoria on LeRay Street Giovanni’s first opened in the late 1960s at

Hamilton Street School Built In 1899 To Relieve Overcrowding At Lamon Street School In April

Stony Crest Island, aka Warner Island and Jewel Island The first mention of Warner Island,

Shadow Lawn, the “White House by the Sea” John A. McCall, President of the New

Emma Flower Taylor Residence 224 S Massey St Built After Divorce From J. B. Taylor

Johnston and Hudson Residence Erected by William Johnston in 1895 at 246 S Massey St,

The Dutch Elm Disease Forever Changed the Landscape of Washington Street Ice Storms and a microburst.

Neil Hunt, Neighbor of Henry Heath, Purchases St. Elmo Island in 1884 St. Elmo Island

Mrs. George Pullman Mansion in Washington, D.C., Becomes Russian Embassy then Russian Ambassador Residence The

A&W Drive-In, 728 Bradley Street “Come As You Are – Eat In Your Car!” Who

The Florentine D. Roth Mansion Becomes Home to Sisters of St. Joseph’s Music Conservatory The

Streeter Block Become J B Wise Block, Home to the Victoria Theater The Streeter Block

Nobby Island: Henry Heath’s Vision of Utopia in the 1000 Islands The “recorded” history of

The Lincoln Restaurant and Aldimar Restaurant Nearly 30 years on Public Square in the Lincoln

The Emma Flower Taylor Stable Murders – Double Murder By Shooting Still Unsolved The Taylor

Sport Island and its short-bridged neighbor, Little Lehigh The history of Sport Island and Little

Madison Barracks Erected after Sackets Harbor Becomes an Important Military Installation During the War of

A Look at the History of the Black River Valley Club (BRVC) Building The Black

Fairlawn, the Pullman Summer Residence on Ocean Ave, Elberon, N.J. Built in 1874 at Elberon,

Union and Jefferson Mills Were Two of the Old Mill Street Mills from the 1800s

A Look Back at the History of Manhattan Island in the 1000 Islands The first

The Pullman Mansion on South Prairie Ave, Chicago, Illinois Construction on the Pullman Mansion in

Starbuck Arena Saw The Birth of “Sugar” Ray Robinson On January 4, 1939 On January

Neuschwanstein Castle: Construction Started in 1869 But Never Completed For King Ludwig II Of Bavaria

Musselman’s Confectionary at the Y.M.C.A. Bldg 1922 – 1944 In December of 1923, J. Joseph

The Martello Towers of Kingston, Ontario If ever taking a road-trip to Kingston, Ontario (or

Completed in 1880, Theological Hall is the Third Oldest Building on Queen’s University Campus Like

The E. W. Dewey Cottage on Friendly Island, 1887 – 1947 One of the more

The Otis House Fire Was The Most Destructive In Watertown Since 1849 The Otis House

1991 Ice Storm Marked The Beginning Of A Memorable Decade In Northern New York From

George Pullman Spurs Thousand Islands Growth With Guest President Grant’s Visit In 1872, Later Builds

The Wing Wagon: a Taste of Buffalo on Public Square The Wing Wagon would make

Charles M. Schwab Mansion, “Riverside,” Upper West Side of Manhattan Taking four years to complete,

Keewaydin, “Northwest Wind,” Constructed In 1893 For J. W. Jackson Built in 1893 on the

A Look at the Downtown Watertown Christmas Decorations Over the Years It’s beginning to look

H. H. Babcock Co., Makers of Fine Carriages And Automobiles In Watertown, N.Y. The H.

Lower State Street Was Once Prime Real Estate If one weren’t given the addresses of

Dexter Sulphite Mill Explosion of January 18, 1903 Constructed in 1837, the Dexter Sulphite Mill

Hopewell Hall On Wellesley Island, Completed In 1891 William C. Browning’s Hopewell Hall would begin

The Thompson Park Zoo: A Look Back At The Turning Point Toward Natural Habitation In

The Little Sterling Street School House Becomes Grace Church The history of Grace Church that

Taggart Paper Mill Had Served Many Purposes Over The Years, Destroyed By Fire In 1972

House of the Good Samaritan, often referred to as City Hospital in its early years,

The Brownville Hotel: 1820 – 1995, 175 Years a Landmark The first Brownville Hotel was

Wyckoff Villa, A Deteriorating Mansion Built On The Island Of A Strategic Revolutionary War British

Gorri’s Market: First a Grocery Store, Then Resurrected as a Meat Market If Gorri’s Market

Frigate New Orleans And Its Shiphouse At Sackets Harbor, Built For The War Of 1812

Trinity Church On Court Street And Watertown’s Dark Past With Its First Burial Ground The

It’s Not Called Watertown For Nothing: The Great Flood Of 1869 The great flood of

Chaumont Landmark For Many Years, O. S. Wilcox Residence Became National Hotel Then Carlier Hotel

Bonniecastle, Named After Fictional Character and 1874 Novel “Arthur Bonnicastle” The history of Bonniecastle, the

O’Toole’s Roadhouse Restaurant at Salmon Run Mall In 1988, O’Toole’s Roadhouse Restaurant would join the

The Forge House In Old Forge, NY, Constructed In 1871 And Destroyed By Fire In

District No 10 School House – Intersection Of Dry Hill-Farm School Rd And Minkler Rd.

Williams’ Dry Feed, Fassett’s Groceries and White’s Quality Meats In Adams Center This building, once

The Ohio State Reformatory, Setting For The Shawshank Redemption Film Built on a field used

Kingston Penitentiary Water Tower, Kingston, Ontario Built in 1895 on penitentiary farmland on what is

Woolworth Lunch Counter, Woolworth Bldg., Public Square Somewhere in history, somebody realized that shopping makes

Kingston City Hall, Ontario, Canada, and Market Square est. 1844 The public market was established

A Look Back As Harold T. Wiley School Turns The Big 5-0. Harold T. Wiley

Abraham Abraham Summer Home On Cherry Island Had Many Connections, Part Of Millionaires Row (1899

The 1940s and 50s Were Record-Breaking For Christmas Shopping In Watertown, NY Up until the

Stone Street Fire Station: Engine House No. 3 and Then No. 1 History hasn’t been

Tobacco Giant Charles G. Emery Constructs Emery Castle On Calumet Island In 1882, Tobacco giant

Morgia’s Restaurant In Watertown, NY, Corner of Cedar at W. Prospect Streets. “Watertown’s first singles

Factory Street Fire Station No. 2, 1873 – 1988 Some interesting discrepancies arose while researching

The Thompson Park Wading Pool Opened In 1901 Long before the original swimming pool was

Boldt Castle: The Heart of the 1,000 Islands The crown jewel of the 1000 Islands

The Watertown Bowl And Its Many Clubs Over The Years (1959 – 1996) In late

Keep, Flower Families Help To Build Henry Keep Home For The Aged The Henry Keep

Montague, New York’s Near Record Of 77 Inches Of Snow In 24 Hours, January Of

The New York Central Freight House Was A Game-Changer For Watertown, N.Y.  In late 1905,

The Flower Memorial Library: A Gift From Emma Flower Taylor To The City Of Watertown,

Roswell P. Flower Helps To Build Flower Hospital For The Poor Of New York City

Brookside Cemetery, One Of New York’s Most Compelling Cemeteries Brookside Cemetery, a short distance to

Emma Flower Taylor Mansion – A Wedding Gift From Father To Daughter The story of

The 1986 Gale Street Murders Haunted Community For One Long Week Before Charles Fedora Was

Sears Finally Gets A Home On Arsenal Street In 1948 Until its closing at Salmon

1950’s Atomic Bomb Testings Were A Las Vegas Attraction Below are some facts and figures

White House Inn – Once Stood Where State Office Building Is Located Though only 65

Howard Johnson On Arsenal Street (1962 – 1989) Howard Johnson’s popularity in its 96-year existence

New York Air Brake WW1 Efforts Leads To Construction Of Lansingdorp World War 1 had

New York Central Coal Trestle In The Pine Street Rail Road Yard, Built In 1919

The Watertown Engine Terminal And Roundhouse At Pine Street Rail Yard Construction on the new