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Abraham Lincoln passed the location twice, far before it became a park. Once as president-elect after meeting with the Albany Legislature, and once after his death, after his body laid in state at the New York State Capitol Building [4].The park was constructed on a vacant 3 acre lot, and opened in June 2015. [5]
The event has an average attendance of 20,000 people. Art on Lark is the second largest street festival in upstate New York, second only to LarkFEST, and has been voted as the Best Arts Event in the Times Union Readers Poll in 2009 and 2010. [17] LarkFEST is the largest one day street festival in New York with attendance reaching 80,000 people.
Here are eight events happening in the area close to home or a short drive away: —Albany-Dougherty County Kiwanis Club Pancake Run, Breakfast and One Mile Fun Run: 8-11 a.m. Saturday, 2126 ...
New York Governor John Alden Dix lived at 491 State Street before and after his term in office. [6] 423 State Street is owned by the University at Albany and used by its Center for Legislative Development. [38] At 465 State Street is the Benjamin Walworth Arnold House and Carriage House, the only buildings in Albany designed by Stanford White. [39]
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 ...
Schuyler Mansion is a historic house at 32 Catherine Street in Albany, New York.The brick mansion is now a museum and an official National Historic Landmark.It was constructed from 1761 to 1765 for Philip Schuyler, later a general in the Continental Army and early U.S. Senator, who resided there from 1763 until his death in 1804.
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John Boyd Thacher State Park is a state park located 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Albany, New York, near Voorheesville, in Albany County on State Route 157.Located mostly atop the Helderberg Escarpment, the park has several hiking trails that offer panoramic views of the Green Mountains in Vermont and the Taconic Mountains of the Hudson Valley.