Diagram Map of South Pearl Street
during the early nineteenth century!

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Division Street Hudson Street map of next block east on Hudson Street Lutheran or Nail Street Henry Hallenbeck - 61 South Pearl Street Neeltie, widow of Bernardus Hallenbeck Hallenbeck burying ground South Pearl Street Edward S. Willett - 18 South Pearl Ezra Ames lived at 41 South Pearl Street Martin Hebeysen, grocer at 67 Hudson Gilbert Stewart, merchant living at 69 Hudson in 1813 Jonathan Kidney, blacksmith at 71 Hudson Fryer property Benjamin Lattimore - 9 Plain Street Lutheran church State Street Stevenson's house Stevenson's coachhouse Beaver Street home of Henry Staats Presbyterian church

Diagram by an unknown cartographer reflecting the layout of South Pearl Street during the early 1800s and printed in Munsell's Collections on the History of Albany, 3:458. We believe this to be one of the earliest attempts to plot out inhabitation along this one-time path to the pastures!

However, Albany people began to build along this "cow path" ffrom the beginning of the eighteenth century. Running east from the street was a section later called Southside or "Cheapside" that was settled by former garrison soldiers and other newcomers whose homes are shown on an assessment roll from the early 1700s. The Lutheran church, dating to the late 1600s, and later the Presbyterian meeting house were built along this street.

By the 1750s, an enclave of weavers and a number of other Albany mainliners lived along the street.

Before 1814, this road was known as "Washington Street" commemorating a walk General George Washington reputedly took from State Street to Schuyler Mansion when he visited Albany in 1783.

The block west of South Pearl and between Plain and Hamilton Streets was "Hallenbeck-intensive" containing the homes of several of Hendrick Hallenbeck's children.

The "Halenbeek Burial Ground," located south of South Pearl and Hamilton Street, was established in the will of Hendrick Hallenbeck in 1764 and served as a family plot until it was dismantled in 1860.


William Henry Yates then Kane Mansion Hallenbeek Burial Grounds Lydius Street - today's Madison Avenue Lydius Street - today's Madison Avenue Hallenbeek Street

The southern continuation of this drawing (also reproduced from the same volume of Collections), running south from Hamilton Street, across Lydius Street (changed to Madison Avenue in 1867), past the former Yates Mansion (called Kane Mansion in Kane's Park on the map), and continuing south across Ferry Street.

The block of South Pearl (south of Hamilton Street to Lydius) includes the properties of Barent Sanders and the Van Zandts on the east side and those of the Hoghkerks, Mrs. Price, William Henry (father of Joseph Henry), and others.
South of Lydius: on the southeastern corner was Sheldon Mallery - a merchant at 76 Washington in 1813; Spencer Stafford; the son of lapsed Hessian soldier John C. Fredenrich;

Another, further continuation running south across the Beaverkill, past Schuyler Mansion, and almost to the city line remains to be added. This entire settlment area falls under the legendary umbrella of the South End.



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first posted: 2/20/03; revised 1/20/09

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