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The Seymour House on the corner of Ford and State with 100 rooms was the most prominent hotel in the city. It was erected in 1842 and 1851 and originally called the St. Lawrence Hotel. The Woodman House on State Street contained about 40 rooms; The Johnson House was near the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain depot at the corner of Ford and Patterson St.; the National Hotel at the corner of Ford and Catherine Streets and one of the early stone buildings of the city. The New York House was near the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg railway depot and the Oswegatchie House was at the corner of Lake and Main streets and later Chappel's Hotel.

Babcock's Pump Factory was a substantial stone structure, 40 x 70 feet and four stories in height, built in 1846. The stone used in its construction was obtained upon the site of the city gas works. The building was used for a number of years by Mr. O.S. Cummins as a machine stop and nearly destroyed by fire in 1854. It was converted into a flouring mill in 1862. In 1873, it was purchased by A. A. Babcock and used as a pump factory.

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Inside Montroy's Saloon

Montroy's Saloon

Top left, opening of George H. Montroy's West End Liquors/Saloon sometime after 1905. Man with straw hat tipped back is George H. Montroy; man in white is his brother Fabian Montroy and at right in white shirt and tie, brother Jean Baptiste Montroy, all sons of Jean Baptiste Montreiul (Montroy). Bottom left is interior of saloon with George Montroy at right and Fabian at center. (courtesy of Diane McPherson-Stern, granddaughter of Fabian Montroy.)

Pythian Home at left; fairgrounds at right - fairgrounds were located to the rear of the OFA dome. (thanks Mike Roach for information)

United Helper's Home on State St., left, and St. John's Hospital on the Black Lake Road. (thanks Mike Roach for information)

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Structures at left include St. Mary's Academy and Bishop Controy School; Bell Brothers boot shop at right.

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Former Wadhams Hall building on Washington St. at left; and at right, American House Hotel, later the Hotel Welton and then the Hub Hotel at 206-208 N. Water St. (Thanks Patrick McMillan, J. Patrick Doyle and Mike Roach for information.)

Orphange complex at left, attached to Notre Dame Church, and Sandy Beach at right.

J.P. Keegan

J.P. Kegan Cafe, location unknown, with Fabian Montroy in white. (Courtesy Diane McPherson-Stern)

Chimney Island, site of Fort Royale. (courtesy Tim Como)

Early drawings of grain elevator and Lafayette St. Bridge.

J.W. Cook (later C&M) Grocery

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(Offered by John Harold Cook & courtesy of David Martin)

J. W. Cook Grocery at the corner of State and Canton Streets (upper left). After the death of owner John Wilbert Cook in 1934, it became C&M Grocery (next image down at left) and for decades, was a popular stop for students attending the elementary, junior high and senior high schools on State Street. A gas station was located at the rear (images at right) and next door was Ogdensburg Creamery (bottom right.)

Crescent Hotel

The Crescent Hotel, later the Hearthstone Inn, was located at Crescent and Greene Streets and burned in the 1970s. It featured a basement bar.

Eel Weir dam, left, on Oswegatchie east of the city; and NY Central tracks leading to depot off Main St., right. (Photos by Ted Como)

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1871 Harbor View

One of our oldest photos, masts of ships can be seen in harbor near Ford St. bridge.

These images possibly show the Skilling, Whitney and Barnes lumber yard built on piers extending into the St. Lawrence off Washington St., near the Port of Ogdensburg.

Griddle Restaurant

The Griddle was located along the Crescent, at left just past the Greene St. intersection.

Unknown Factory Site

This image comes from a 1939 booklet prepared to market the region during the New York World’s Fair. It describes a building for rent along the St. Lawrence River in Ogdensburg with 1,200 feet of docks, a railroad siding the full length and with a main building 95 feet wide and 350 feet long. Since it connected to the New York Central RR, it must have been on the west side of the Oswegatchie and might have been part of the later Diamond National plant.

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