Y...M...C...AYes, I'll admit it, The Village People are one of my guilty pleasures. Their July concert was the most fun I've had at Alive @ Five in a long time.
And I'll admit that I only recently realized this gorgeous building on Pearl Street was the original location of Albany's Y.M.C.A.. I've passed it many, many times, but always knew of it as the now-defunct Steuben Club and now the home of the new Pearl Street Pub.
The building was built in the 1880s and designed by the architectural firm of Fuller & Wheeler. The turret on the southeast corner was topped with a conical roof, now lost. The side entrance on Steuben Place is especially handsome with its imposing Romanesque sandstone arch.
It is interesting how people can pass by a building that was used for years for something like a YMCA, yet not realize that it was anything other than a pub. Even the Pantheon was a poultry market in the middle ages.
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OK, next year to Costa Rica for the holidays; I've decided cold and I do not get along. Yes, the YMCA building, has been this pub for a very short time, prior, also Pearl St. Pub..and then prior The Downtown Athletic Club. I think at one point the Steuben Athletic Club used it to cook for their members, but sold that part out.
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