Tag: 1950's in Watertown

The Chimes Cafe Was Located On Franklin Street For Just Shy of 50 Years In

Shaughnessy Knitting Mill Weaves A Spin-Off: Olga Knitting Mills Located In Factory Square Olga Knitting

401 Mill Street, Home To J. B. Wise Co., Wilbur’s, California Brewery and Watertown Roller

The Twelve Year Battle To Build A New Watertown High School On Washington Street Efforts

Goulding, Bagley & Sewall Became Bagley & Sewall, Later Purchased By Black Clawson The origins

Edwin Paddock Mansion Becomes Jefferson County Historical Society The Paddock Mansion on Washington Street in

Is The Jefferson County Fair The Longest Consecutively Running Fair At 206 in 2023? The

George Cook And The Soldiers’ And Sailors’ Monument, Dedicated In 1891 The story behind George

Paddock Arcade, First Glass-Covered Street In The United States Long before it was home to

H. H. Babcock Mansion Gets A Greek Revival Makeover By Anson R. Flower And Later

The History Of The Oscar Paddock Carriage House – The Finest Of Its Time The

F. W. Woolworth’s Vision Of The Woolworth Building on Public Square Was Much Different Although

From Kirby House, to Earll Hotel, Hotel Hardiman and Roosevelt Hotel, the Old Court Street

Last of The Jean’s Beans Still Going Strong At Same Location Despite Difficulties Launching In

Jefferson County Almshouse, Once An Orphanage, County Home For The Aged And Deathbed Of Famed

Judge Sawyer Mansion at 141 Ten Eyck Street One of the large, old homes in

The Strand Opens in 1914 as a Modern Theater on Franklin Street Watertown, NY would

Hillcrest Farm on Ives Street Has An Impressive History Of Ownership Hillcrest Farm on Ives

Hardiman-Woolworth Co., One of the Largest Furnishing Houses in New York State The Hardiman-Woolworth store

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

Woolworth Lunch Counter, Woolworth Bldg., Public Square Somewhere in the annals of history, somebody realized

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anthony Marra’s Grocery Store, 300 South Meadow Street at Cross Street Marra’s grocery store, started

The Sugar Bowl: A Long-Standing Fixture on Public Square… And Canton, N.Y.? The first mention

South Junior High School, First School Built On Washington Street Campus, Eventually Became Case Junior

North Junior High School: A Result Of The 1924 Columbia University Study, Eventually Becomes North

The Second Time Around, There Was Arsenal Street High School… The predecessor to the school

Actually, The 2nd 3rd Arsenal Street School To Occupy The Same Location Completed in 1916, the

Old Car Barn At 780 W Main Street Has Been Home To Many Things Over

The Academy Street Schools: Same Old Story As City’s Other Public Schools The original Academy

Two Different Boon Street Schools, With Lots Of Additions Over The Years The first Boon

Watertown’s North Side Growth Spurs The Construction Of A New Pearl Street School In 1888

Immaculate Heart Academy (IHA) On West Main Street, Watertown, N.Y. By its opening in 1884,

The Mead Street Schools: Desperate Needed To No Longer Needed At All. The first Mead

The Lansing Street School: Eventual First Home To Jefferson Community College Constructed in 1904, the

Three Different Schoolhouses Bore The Name Cooper Street School.  Oops, Better Make That Four. It’s

Saved By The Bell: The Old Mullin Street School The original Mullin Street School was

A View To The North And East: Thompson Park Pinnacle By 1900, work had already

The Cleveland Building On Arcade St Was Originally The City’s First Post Office… On Arsenal

The Thompson Park Circle: Entrance to the Park Early in its design phase, John C.

Watertown Neighborhood Grocery Stores – Renzi Grocery E Main Street One of the longest operating

Watertown Neighborhood Grocery Stores – Bajally’s Was First Purpuro’s Before Bajally’s was a staple on

The Fairbanks  Building, aka The Flatiron, Downtown Watertown Interestingly enough, Watertown’s Fairbanks Building actually preceded

The Original Thompson Park Pool Was Built In 1924 And Was One Of Three City

The Burrville Cider Mill, More Than Just A Local Haunt… Located just outside Watertown, between

All Souls Universalist Church on Washington Street Taking several years to build, the All Souls

The Arsenal Street Bridges – 1901 to Present. Unlike the Court, Mill, Vanduzee, Eastern Blvd, and

The Mill Street Bridges of Watertown, N.Y Note: Mill Street does, in fact, have two

Governor Roswell P. Flower Monument, An Augustus Saint-Gaudens Work Of Art Commissioned for $25,000 in 1900,

The current First Baptist Church is actually the third church to sit on the corner

The Public Square Water Fountain, AKA “Cory’s Punch Bowl” The Public Square water fountain in

State Street Grammar School Replaces Former Watertown High School On State & Mechanic Streets Construction

Was this really the first Watertown train depot?  And it’s still there?! Constructed in 1851,

The Jefferson County Jail at 300 Coffeen Street, 1910 – 1993 Built in an era

St. Patrick’s Children’s Home at 201 Coffeen St, Watertown, N.Y. The history of St. Patrick’s

Honk Your Horn For The Arch Street Tunnel! The Arch Street tunnel was constructed sometime

Henry Barr, A Former Slave From Kentucky, Builds Barr Block On Court Street In 1895

The Kaiser Block, Home To The Green Lantern Restaurant Located on lower Court Street, some

The Crowner House, Another Otis Wheelock Creation In Watertown, N.Y. One individual who had his

The E. J. Hungerford Block, 228 Court Street Built during a time of tremendous new