01/07/2022
Very cool article about our office/apartment building at 62 Brinkerhoff St. in Plattsburgh!
Here's today's PHOTO OF THE DAY!!! Today's snowstorm reminded us of this wintry snapshot; A wonderful photo from the archives, taken on "Brinkerhoff Street" on a similarly snowy day about 100 years ago. Do you recognize the house in the background?? The two smiling children are sadly unidentified, but they are posed in front of a house that was once well known to the citizens of this City. Standing at 62 Brinkerhoff, it was once the stately home of Plattsburgh's very first Mayor; Mr. Albert Sharron. As owner of "Sharron's Department Store," Mr. Sharron was among the area's leading businessmen for much of the late 19th and early 20th Century. He had come to Plattsburgh at the age of 14 and went straight to work. By 23, young Albert was running his own dry goods store on Margaret Street. In 1882 it was a modest shop for sure, but over the decades that followed, it grew to become downtown's oldest and largest retailer. Always an active and civic minded individual, Albert Sharron was a founding member of the Plattsburgh Rotary Club and the Plattsburgh Chamber of Commerce. Shortly after the turn of the Century, with Plattsburgh becoming a City, Mr. Sharron was honored by the community and elected as its first Mayor in 1902, serving one term with distinction. He died in 1945 at the ripe old age of 86, having seen the area transform from a 19th Century village of dirt streets, oil lamps, and horse drawn carriages, to the modern City we know today. After Albert's death, his son Roswell ran the business for another 20 years, but Sharron's Department Store finally closed its doors for good in the fall of 1960 after almost eight decades of operation. The old family house on Brinkerhoff Street was later converted into a nursing home and today serves as apartments and office space.
