Earlier this month, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that among the first 10 projects to receive funds from the $200 million allocated to upgrade Albany’s downtown was a $150,000 grant toward a multimillion-dollar renovation of the Ostrande-Radliff House, the city’s oldest building.
That house was constructed in 1728. That’s undeniably old — but another house not far away was already a senior citizen by then.
The Bronck House in Coxsackie, built 65 years earlier in 1663, is the oldest house in upstate New York, according to the Greene County Historical Society…