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The New York State Capitol building in Albany is said to be haunted by the ghosts of a night watchman who died in a 1911 fire, artist William Morris Hunt, and others. [ 101 ] Merchant's House Museum in Manhattan is the last home in New York City from the nineteenth-century to be intact, and is reportedly haunted by former resident Gertrude ...
Albany Rural Cemetery. The Albany Rural Cemetery was established October 7, 1844, in Menands, New York, United States, just outside the city of Albany, New York. It is renowned as one of the most beautiful, pastoral cemeteries in the U.S., at over 400 acres (1.6 km 2). Many historical American figures are buried there.
Washington Park in Albany, New York is the city's premier park and the site of many festivals and gatherings. As public property it dates back to the city charter in 1686, and has seen many uses including that of gunpowder storage, square/parade grounds, and cemetery. The park is often mistaken as being designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, as it ...
Ironweed. (film) Victorian house, known as the Dillenbeck House, in Slingerlands, NY (outside Albany), used in the film Ironweed. Ironweed is a 1987 American drama film directed by Héctor Babenco. Adapted to the screen by William Kennedy from his similarly named Pulitzer Prize –winning novel, Ironweed stars Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep ...
1984. Oakwood Cemetery is a nonsectarian rural cemetery in northeastern Troy, New York, United States. It operates under the direction of the Troy Cemetery Association, a non-profit board of directors that deals strictly with the operation of the cemetery. [2] It was established in 1848 in response to the growing rural cemetery movement in New ...
Burials at Albany Rural Cemetery. This category is for people whose remains are interred at Albany Rural Cemetery in New York.
Palmer died at his home in Albany on March 9, 1904, and is buried in Albany Rural Cemetery. [4] [5] [6] Palmer admired the work of William Cullen Bryant, Asher B. Durand, and Frederic Edwin Church. [7] Palmer was a friend of Church, and his work is represented in the collection at Olana, Church's home in Hudson, New York.
Gravestone of Howard Townsend at Albany Rural Cemetery, photographed July 2008 Townsend died at the age of 43 on January 16, 1867, following a brief illness, described as follows: In December, 1866, after much fatigue in the performance of his duties at the college, he complained of langour and exhaustion, but not in a way to cause disquietude ...