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Vintage photos of:
Circa 1906. "Entrance, N.Y.C. & H.R. R.R. station, Albany, New York." The Beaux-Arts depot of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, also known as Albany Union Station. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.
This building is now the SEFCU headquarters, but I think is owned by SUNY Polytechnic Institute. Just down the Hudson at the other end of downtown Albany is a very impressive rail building, the old D&H headquarters, now offices for SUNY.
https://www.albany.edu/museum/wwwmuseum/statestreet/dhbuild.html
No longer a train station but the building is still there.
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