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Alfred E. Smith Building Detail (Albany, New York)

The Alfred E. Smith Building, known officially as the Alfred E. Smith State Office Building and sometimes called simply the Smith Building, stands at 80 South Swan Street, across from the northwest elevation of the New York State Capitol. The Art Deco edifice was built in 1928 and has a height of 387 feet, making it Albany's second tallest building. William E. Haugaard and Sullivan W. Jones designed the structure, which is a contributing property to the Center Square/Hudson–Park Historic District. That district was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

 

The building's namesake, Alfred Emmanuel Smith, was a four-term governor of New York and the Democratic Party's nomination for the 1928 presidential election.

 

Information from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_E._Smith_Building

 

Albany is a lovely small city located in the Hudson Valley of eastern New York. The municipality is home to just under 100,000 residents, and forms the center of a metropolitan area with a 2020 population of over 1 million. The city is one of the oldest in the region with Dutch colonial roots dating to the 1610s.

 

Albany became the capital of New York in 1797. In addition to being a political center for the fourth most populous U.S. state, the city is a regional hub for economic, educational, and cultural institutions. It is the county seat of Albany County.

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