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| Arts and Culture |
| After a decline in manufacturing in the 1950s,
the city undertook revitalization efforts including the Empire
State Plaza, a complex of state administrative buildings, convention
facilities, parks, and the state museum and state library. The
plaza faces the capitol, built (1867–98) in the French
château style. The city is the seat of the State Univ.
of New York at Albany; the schools of pharmacy, law, and medicine
of Union Univ.; the College of St. Rose; and the Albany Institute
of History and Art. Among many old buildings are the Schuyler
mansion (1762); Ten Broeck Mansion (1798); and Cherry Hill (1768),
the home of Philip Van Rensselaer. An annual tulip festival
is held. |
| In 1609, Henry Hudson visited the site, and four
years later the Dutch built Fort Nassau, a fur-trading post,
on Castle Island. In 1624 several Walloon families began permanent
settlement at the Dutch post of Fort Orange, renamed Albany
after the English took control (1664). Albany was long important
as a fur-trading center and was involved in the French and Indian
Wars. In 1754 the Albany Congress met there, and in 1797 the
state capital was moved to Albany from New York City. Albany's
trade grew particularly after the opening of the Champlain and
Erie canals in the 1820s. |
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