Our thanks to Mary Jane Hunter Kretzler for photographs and extensive email and phone conversations and to University at Albany student Jackson Ciavardoni for conducting an oral history interview with Mary Jane and her brother James on May 11, 2015. Like most of the roughly 400 businesses that once served the 98 acres, Kenneth Hunter’s pharmacy…
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Sarah Stapleton vs. the State of New York
The house at 204 State Street, in Albany across from the Capitol, had been Sarah McGroarty Stapleton’s home since the summer of 1919, when she married her husband Edward. Born in Donegal, Ireland and raised in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Sarah moved to Albany to attend the Hospital Training School for Nurses. She was 28 years old…
98 Acres in Albany 