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The Albany Parks & Recreation is a city agency in Albany, [1] Oregon, United States responsible for maintaining the local city parks as well as organizing cultural events. Its headquarters are at City Hall, 333 Broadalbin Street SW. [2] One goal of the City of Albany is to have all residents live within 2 miles (3 km) of a park.
Albany's first city hall was the Stadt Huys (/ ˈ s t æ t ˈ h aɪ s /; Dutch for "city hall"); sometimes written Stadt Huis), built by the Dutch at what is now the intersection of Broadway and Hudson Avenue, probably in the 1660s, though possibly earlier. It was probably replaced around 1740 with a larger Stadt Huys.
The Albany facility is the company's main research and development site in the industry, [69] and has recently partnered with Seattle-based technology company EnerG2 to produce carbon electrode material, in a 74,000-square-foot (6,900 m 2) former distribution center of Oregon Freeze Dry by 2011 bringing a new green technology industry to Albany ...
From that time until 1811, the State Legislature met at the Old Albany City Hall. The first State Capitol was designed by Albany native Philip Hooker , started in 1804, inaugurated in 1812 and remained in use until 1879 when the current building was inaugurated.
New York State Executive Mansion Archived 2017-06-17 at the Wayback Machine (official website) New York State Executive Mansion Tour Program Archived 2012-07-04 at the Wayback Machine; Frommer's Review; Liebs, Chester H. (July 1970). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: New York State Executive Mansion".
The Alfred E. Smith Building, known officially as the Alfred E. Smith State Office Building (formerly the State Office Building) [1] and sometimes called simply the Smith Building, is a structure located in downtown Albany, New York across the street from the New York State Capitol and One Commerce Plaza.
Reflecting Albany's status as New York's capital, 17 of the 41 extant buildings listed individually, more than one-third of that total, have been used for governmental purposes at some point. [ note 7 ] The city government is responsible for three of those, its school district for two and the federal government one (the Old Post Office ), with ...
The Downtown Albany Historic District is a 19-block, 66.6-acre (27.0 ha) area of Albany, New York, United States, centered on the junction of State (New York State Route 5) and North and South Pearl streets (New York State Route 32). It is the oldest settled area of the city, originally planned and settled in the 17th century, and the nucleus ...