The Alfred Community: Now and Then

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• The Alfred Community Now and Then

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Alfred Station/Bakers Bridge
Tinkertown
Five Corners
Goose Pasture
Village
Tip Top
Town of Alfred 1869
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Alfred Station, 1910
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Now the Bicycle Man
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Then Alfred Station schoolhouse
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Now Hillbottom Pottery
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Then Alfred Station Post Office
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Now Canacadea Country Store
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Then Willards Mercantile Gas
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Now Main Street Alfred Station
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Then Main Street Alfred Station
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Today Alfred Station
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Then 1936 Ice Storm
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Now The Bridge original name for Alfred
Station was Bakers Bridge
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Then The Bridge the Baker brothers built a
bridge thus the name
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Now Bakers Bridge Historical Association
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Then originally a church building, later used as
a horse barn
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Now Alfred Station tracks
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Then Alfred Station depot
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Now Tip Tops Big Chicken
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Then Tip Tops switching station
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Now Alfred Station Post Office/Fire Hall
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Then Alfred Station school
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Now Sherman Road in Tinkertown
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Then aftermath of the 1935 flood
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Now home of the famous Stearns Chicken BBQ
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Just as good then
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Now the Stearns family home
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Then the Green family home
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Now the Alfred Rural Cemetery
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Peaceful and beautiful
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Not so quiet during Memorial Day observances!
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Now entering the village
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Then entering the village through the Stillman
family farm
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Passing the Stillman family cemetery
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And one of the first car garages in town
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With one of the first cars in town
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Now the Rose and Maple Apartments
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Then Saxon Heights a.k.a. Diaper Hill
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Now trees, bushes, grass, flowers
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Then Happy Valley Ski Resort
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Now Alfred State Colleges garages
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Then Alfred U.s agriculture school barn
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Unfortunately lost in a 1960 fire
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Now Merrill Field
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Then not so pretty after the 1935 flood
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Then the village in 1905
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Now Fasano Welcome Center
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Then Delta Sigma Phi fraternity
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Before then the Burdick home, hosting the
Amandine Club
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Now home of the Art Design School
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Then home of the School of Agriculture
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Now McLane Center
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Then Celadon Terra Cotta Tile Company
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The companys office building.
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Being moved to make way for McLane Center
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Now on its present site
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Now lot next to the post office
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Then site of the Sabbath Recorder publishing
building
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Now Powell Campus Center
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Then Rogers Campus Center
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Originally Kenyon Memorial Hall
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Now Kanakadea Hall
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Damaged in a 1907 fire
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Built in 1884 as the Alfred Center School
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Now South Hall
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Then Alfred Central School
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Now Park Street, special interest housing
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Then Park Street, family housing
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Now Saxon Drive
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Then coasting down the hill
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Now Main Street
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Then Main Street
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Then a little further back
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Then classic Main Street buildings
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One still survives as the Box of Books Library
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Now food and clothing
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Then food and stamps
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Now hair salon
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Then the bank
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Now Carnegie Hall
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Then Carnegie Library
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Then east side of Main Street
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Lost to a fire in 1887
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Today intersection of Church and Main streets
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Same intersection in 1906
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Today another look at Main Street
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Built in the 1870s
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Today Greene Hall
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Then a business block
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Then a wider view
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Today down Church St. to Main St.
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Same view in May 1891
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Now West University home
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With its family in 1906
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Now rental house off Reynolds Street
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Then built in the 1830s
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Circa 1910 view and its houses today
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Classic tile roof house
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Built in 1904 on Reynolds Street
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Now Sun Publishing Company
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Then built in 1885, original home of the Alfred
Sun newspaper
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Now the Octagon House on South Main St.
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Then same thing
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Today The Brick
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Then Ladies Hall
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Now The Gothic
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Then The Gothic on its original site (location
of Herrick Library)
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Now Alumni Hall
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Then the Alfred Academy
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Now the Career Development Center
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Then the Allen Steinheim Museum
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Now the carillon
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Then in its original tower
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Today Davis Gym
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Then before the front addition
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Now ready for anything
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Then ready for a concert
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Now Susan Howell Hall
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Then its predecessor, the White House