New-York tribune., 1884-12-07
OLD AND NEW ALBANY,
THE NORLE sTATE HOUSE.


pany which one 0 cities not only
in situation steep AMI disconnected hills, but IN s
society. which has OLD Holland Dutch bass with sub
sequent admxtures Of all kinds aud the Whoe not yet
blended. It is a rising place. however ant now has
100000 people at least The City Hall there by
Richardson is n very graceful building with an open
ctmp1pUe tower and features winch seem borrower
from the Spanish and FLEMISH architects. as they drew
from each other and both und the political
sway The oi Schuyler mansion at one enl of the town
Offsets Rensselaer, mansion ut the other end.
Schuyler was the first Mayor Of Albany. Albany is
the Oldest English town in tho United States the site
having been settled time he ore Manhattan Island
Tho Van Renss"laers more distincvey PATRONS,
planter airons than the Sehyler and Troy Ia the
capital their grant The Schuyler mansion goes back
TO l7GO and its predecessor stood nearly mile distant
on the of the present City Hall The streets have
been graded beneath and therefore stands alone
n plain. respectable. yellow mansion with gallery |
around top and orchard ard garden wall In the
rear Rensselaer, hOuso seems TO he more mOd-
ern AMI moro extensive The directory of Albany Is as
full Of Vans" as New-York at moving time. some OF
them are not handsome of our modern moving
vans
If you pass Of a few streets in Albany and go
among the wild hills you will wonder if you not in
some to Sn of oil regions the Allegheny Mountains
The houses up angles Of thirty degrees. An |
ordinary block Will have OF its lower house far
beneath cellar of the house at the other end But
there pleasant features III the better parts OF
Albany such as my 'terlols wi lening OF street. for
what reason yOu do not cOmprchcn then mysterious
crookng same; and you find queer little streets
slip down hill like bad boy; and then again some
great which appears have been the bed OF
| a torrent.
The car tol building is the most expensive edhce
| on this continent having now cost approaching
| SIGIOOOOO The Capitol at Washington was summed
NJ ten years ago to have cost about Sl3OoO.OOO and
since nothing has been added excert the i'm
proye,ncnt Of the Capitol grounl' me superintendent
at Albany told that he thought he co1ii finish the
Capitol II ha F}.ODOObO yotel in one lump. Some
sceptcs there say that the Capio VIII tlke $4,000 oo
moro If it il to ne finished with tuc to~eI ven sou, pan
think 1t would cost nearer -? oOo'O0o Iah SzooOooVo
Mr 'e nr 12y NJ ~ , tSe agt s of the National cap
to llOl deal of the latter rdce i merely curtain or
srreen 10 connect the wings with the od centre The
Albany oanitol has three great mounted upon
great basement. and above the cornice are paNuloiS
themselves hgh - oriinlry business blocks IN NrW
| York The architecture o. the Capitol ha, urinfeStly
changed. AMI beg'nniug with aari and mt7SiIe kShns
Gothic Eastern aud Moorish forms so that it may he
hkened toa stone lower-pOt with the flowers popping
out above.
II is impossible not to admire such magnificent
mass Of sons Nearly everybody likes the latrst ad-
ditions the best We have had SO much Roman k'Cais
put up this country In the past fifteen years that
it has become nonotouous o. the architects of the
| Albany CAPITOL given the old Court House ~ Sew
York city extend. ana WIN 'onplrt" l"nueleho' l"
what had been ar'a y done he pat ns oriental AI'no,
n prominent architect not long aao reading book 9l
c,s,ys architecture by tins same pan ana ne Sai
Here is the best writing have ever seen III America ny
an architect"
Tho state Ncw York has reached In the New Capitol
at Albany the highest monumcnttlihing OF province
known in modern perhaps fcldal times. can tldnh
oi no public building in the Old ducal sovolci;nt'' "l
Europe which approaches IA any way the proportions
nnd cxpcnsc or this Capitol OF mrro state The great
Dukr~ OF burgundy who asprcd to be hins, have ct t
u pitiahlc pile to compare with NV iniNN "l'pn"hl
The llouUs of Parliament Slrhdld ~ url are W. ~, " ~
tcrnal effect. cost loss than Nblm's Capitol Ihrr"
million Ioands sterling wcrc oNp'ndo th1r"; ana 'hr
builipg cont tn- "lovcn 90 t' ON" lldri Nl'l''S,N
each over three hundred feet hlsh Ihe Ninanl ,,lol
o . GI o HS m g p cc '" and il has rsy cosI more than
the American Capitol by Fi.roooOo ana n",rB
! inmenL II must hc said, however that tho Albany
building ia more splendid within than the panrss at
Washing Westminster Very much seems 10 have
been spent at Mhan IN minute ",a'h,Ion ~ %H r IN ,me
precIard by our postery thih ey the present race oil
taxpaycrs
II We consiler the population Of Now-York AT
10000 of people, they have already spent between ~
aud 81 a held on this Albany ediice Taking the I'M
Der OF 200 OOD representative OF the trne
taxpayers they have paid something Ike eli head 10
have greatest state Capitol IN the world Yet If we
hrrs they would far exceed cultivation of France
| when the rileres and Louvre were built. even In
matters and architecture II l. seldom thdt the
great body the people have any technical acnaint
ancr with the prevailing art. When the Norman monks
a. architects put mp the glorious ctthedias IN the uor
OF France Belgium and IN England their Dukes ami
King could neither read nor write. Consequently We
NAV suppose that the ignorant member of Assem-
ry sits under the ya1licd roof of stone supported
9ot the art witch surrounds him tnan the Duke, of
Normandy who founded the royal house OF England.
Neither the American Congress Parliament any
Iaw-makng ly the globe has such surroundings as
the senate ani Assembly of the province oi Now-lork
one architect took the Assembly I'm hand. andanothcr
to u,e the of Artemus Ward. put soul into tc
senate 4 fine ioresn cr'c ON 7ucn matters wou'' & 'N
chambers that the official c,,-os oi lnslnnd do ~ ne
magnituis ot The Federal printing iloF IN tne world
do you get much money T. sad an ohr'r o. inc h"
sh ceuNl1 looking at the ma, hh,,nt , ioimes %, ''
Albany week or two ago. he exclaimed tha ' 'd zen
| no hng In Europe Ike th, capitol. and he may I'VE
man, mlrel year. IN ncrcI before lc viii erc any.
Thug ukelt Tie world accu.s 10 have been fa'ric"el
| Tor building material
The Assembly sits under roh that Honld make old
william Rufus pate with envy. There are great IRE
Mace IN thea. chamber. whieh socm dc.i, med In
distant future be tho onrs of great 1oNornofs Tho
painting, tine Assembly Chamber are abont one hun
forryer moving along they win perhaps hr two hun
behind 81 when ihc proper erner'loh ,dl',h"
artist, IKE the architects working FOR tc cncoDiln~
ot posiort. Ihs pupil Of 'onihrcs - oi hoGrst 'sPu
uc an lp scent and the .h of Nght ana ih' ll-
co,crcr" might have been Couturcs own inSriaIon |
inc %'tnic ,"rTy ocr,,y m y by he "iarwa, Of hs COM
petor. which is FOR the present hali covered Win |
scahoidlng
Irpcople are inq.i,e about ths nigh price Of fuini-
turc they understand it all BY looking into ihe |
\ba,, state House The architects have furniture |
factory right m the capitol Tor they would b' a"m'd
+, nave store furniture put mi their magnificent
embossed ceiling. AMI against ter bemhh .ehtp'r |
an,l.; hence every clair is designed ipr particular
no ,u and mlhosany is pr"rfrri aNplr l i1inS win |
walnut al a ,coiut though now and then some oak or
a4n - allowed to come IN. lOn can sec ciork' lh ie
twenty rrt hgh looking like Gothic towers taken ion
old palaces $50 biz indeed tnlt 30 }ou plt Y"W t"i n /
the cas-. you can hardly believe the cloca D. ghn IA i'
Iiiueuson- % most the carving power ni t'h
In sour of the flrepacrs the carving i 50 minute lni
the workman Viii he month ~ a sn"1 il pt'' "'l
49,, ,,f,n. b., iev -iuarr fee, IT, Marbles are nptshi !
hr from -rnl because they have certain Nc@h I'M or
,rny tint which viii on the brass property. III" /
onlen iues made 10 receive paintings oi symbols
In am \. lou 80 from rooW 10 rOom each one phttng
itt hack in the riallc and hardly surr isri