Saturday was another milestone in the long and continuing saga of the transformation of the former Cumberland Church in Albany into the Cumberland Community Events Center.
The tall windows of the ground floor lobby of the historic St. Francis Hotel in Albany have been restored, or opened up, to their full height.
For more than a century, the Schultz Building has stood at 212 East First Ave. in Albany. Now the ground floor of the historic two-story brick structure is getting a new use.
The federal government will go ahead and demolish an old and dilapidated building at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), but it is considering steps to preserve two other buildings on the Albany campus.
It was four years ago that Albany officials stopped the Willamette Community Church from replacing the remaining old windows in the church’s building, the historic former Albany High School at 420 Third Ave. S.E.
The U.S. Department of Energy intends to demolish an old building off Liberty Street, on the campus of the former U.S. Bureau of Mines. The question is why has this four-story office building been left to rot to the point that the government wants to tear it down.
Hearings scheduled on ‘exterior alterations’
You would not think that changing an outside railing or building a doorway in a building would require a public hearing. But this is Albany, Oregon.
Tags: Albany Landmarks Commission, downtown Albany, former bike store, Historic buildings, old city hall.