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The former Diamond National plant, or Diamond Match Co., had its beginning as the Continental Paper Mill, started in 1921 next door to Standard Shade Roller by, among others, Frank A. Augsbury. In 1922, the building was remodeled and began work as Algonquin Paper Corp. The company installed one of the largest paper-making machines in the world, 35 feet wide, 17 feet high and 238 feet in length, weighing 1,000 tons. It took 45 railroad cards to transport it from Watertown, where it was built, and produced close to 100 tons of finished newsprint every 24 hours, a process requiring 75 tons of wood pulp and 25 tons of sulphite pulp. To make the wood pulp required about 125 cords of wood, representing the spruce grown on 10 acres of land. In 1926, the company installed its own sulphite mill.
Standard Shade Roller Co. began in 1916 in facilities formerly operated by Flos Shade Roller Co.

Hotels - 1884

Baldwin House, James Wright, proprietor; 31, 33 & 35 N. Water St.

City Hotel, George Chartrand, proprietor, 9 & 11 Commerce

Johnson House, N.P. Keeler, proprietor, 257, 259 & 261 Ford

Mechanic House, Henry Mills, proprietor, 21 Mechanic

National Hotel, Mark S. Morehouse, proprietor, 4 & 6 Ford

New York House, Hames Hamm, proprietor, 20 Commerce

Ogdensburg Hotel, John Owens, proprietor, 6 & 8 Catherine

Oswegatchie House, J.B. Jilson, proprietor, 23 Lake

Ottawa House, Mrs. D. LaValley, 321 Ford

Railroad House, P. Fitzsimmonds, proprietor, 128 Washington

Seymour House, F.J. Tallman, proprietor, 50-56 State

Union House, J. Guyette, proprietor, 189 State

Windsor Hotel, T.A. Crowley, proprietor, 75-79 State

Market Gardeners - 1884

Frank Bean Jr., 67 Mechanic

Robert Cadier, 338 Ford

Patrick Feeley, Morris near Canton

D.F. Foster, Patterson near South

Thomas Gault, Ford near St. John

William McEwen, Canton near Patterson

F.J. Tallman, State near cemetery

Joel M. Woolley, Canton near Patterson

Lumber Dealers - 1884

John Austin, 61 Knox

H.L. Jones, foot of Mill

Charles Lyon, 4 Green

S.G. Pope, 10 South Water

H.I. Proctor, 10 Patterson near O&LC Depot

Skillings, Whitneys & Barnes Lumber Co., William L. Proctor, manager, Patterson near O&LC Depot

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Majestic Strand Theater, which burned in the 1970s.

Sandy Beach

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Image left courtesy Chris Como

Slide at Sandy Beach (courtesy Chris Como)

Streets

Caroline top right; Elizabeth bottom right; all others Washington St.

The Knights of Pythias  constructed the beautiful Pythian Home on Riverside Drive, across from the old Pythian Beach. Today, it is the site of the United Helper's Home. These are various scenes of the buildings and grounds.

At left, the Jones Block and at right, first county courthouse in city when it was the county seat.

Ames Liquor Store at left, and drawing of Curtis Iron Works at right.

Drawing of Iroquois Roller Flour Mill, left, and American Hotel, right.

Powell Store on NY Ave.

William Powell (seen in portrait) operated a store in the 800 block of New York Avenue (storefront about 1895). It began as a bottling works and about 1890 Powell added a grocery and marketed soft drinks. He later expanded to a large general store selling work clothes, shoes, wheelbarrows, screen doors and fresh and cold meats, fruits and vegetables. The business lasted over 50 years. When Powell died at 52 in 1908, his widow Sarah (at left in group photo) and 10 children maintained the business which continued until several years after her death at age 78. (Photos courtesy of Christopher Powell)

White's Hotel , left, may have been located on Commerce St. (click for another view) At right, Oswegatchie House, later Chappel's Hotel. (courtesy Tim Como)

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River scene at unknown Ogdensburg location. (courtesy Ogd. Public Library)

Ogd. Electric Power Plant

Interior of the Ogd. Electric Power and Light station, left, and exterior, right, later acquired by Alcoa. (courtesy County Historical Assoc.)

F. Rapin & Co.

FrankRapin's coopersmith business was at 320 Isabella St. between the Salvation Army and Pontiac Theater. His daughter Laura married Paul LeRoux who set up a plumbing shop there, later operated by Paul's son Leo and torn down in Urban Renewal. (thanks Paul Fleming for info.)

Gibson Laundry

Gibson-Kellock Laundry Co. at 217 Catherine St. under new numbering system. (thanks Mike Roach.)

Waterman Building

Robert E. waterman building, 72 North Water St. (old numbering). (Thanks Mike Roach)

Scenic of St. Lawrence River waterfront at city.

Mighty the Muskie Sign

This sign stood for years on the Morristown Road, advertising the city's great Muskie fishing.

Former Ford dealership at 212 Greene St. It began as B&S garage in 1932 for owners Bernier & Sullivan before sold to Carl Leland who renamed it Leland Ford Sales. He moved that business to the corner of Ford and Linden Streets (in buildings now occupied by Absolutely Youmi’s) in 1955. After that, this building was used as a temporary store location for J.J. Newberry from 1956-1958 (after the downtown Newberry building burned); to house The Journal’s printing department; and later as a teen center and woodworking shop. It was demolished in May, 1979 to make way for the eastern span of the Downtown Arterial. (Thanks Mike Roach for the history.)

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