Rome Capitol Theater, December 1928 J. Floyd Yewell, Central Terminal, Buffalo, Rome Capitol Theater New York, 1929, oil on canvas New York State and Albany Institute of History and Art Arthur Hind Hotel Utica Regional Events Oneida County History Center Statue of James Schoolcraft Sherman Oneida County History Center Virgil Thomson’s Four Saints in Three Acts Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art MWPI opens to public Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Maria Williams Proctor Reginald Marsh, Texas Guinan and Her Gang, 1931, Walter D. Edmonds tempera on canvas, 57.196 Oneida County History Center Thomas R. Proctor funeral, Grace Episcopal Church Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Proctor Park Oneida County History Center Oneida County History Center James Penney, Unemployed, 1933-34, oil on canvas, 83.26 Savage Arms Company Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Maria Williams Proctor Oneida County History Center Empire State Building, First National Bank Building NYC Oneida County History Center Niagara Mohawk Power Building, 1932 • Arthur Hind, a Utica resident who co-owns a textile mill in Clark Mills, National Grid, Syracuse NY purchases the most valuable stamp in the world. The 1856 British Guiana • Prohibition prompts many to visit illegal speakeasies for access to alcoholic 105 12 pt Diego Rivera 105 18 pt 105 24 pt 105 36 pt 203 105 48 pt drinks. Dozens of speakeasies are open throughout the city of Utica. 60 pt one-cent magenta costs him $34,000. 105 • The Stanley Theater has its grand opening in Utica, showing the silent movie Ramona, starring Dolores del Río. Lewis Hine, Empire State Building, 1930’s, gelatin silver print • Opening in 1927, the successful Hurd Shoe Co. (known as Tallman and Metropolitan Museum of Art • The local textile industry suffers as women who had earned money working for • The Grid Leak Company obtains a license to operate a radio station from Hurd in 1872 and twenty years later as Hurd and Fitzgerald Shoe Co.) the defense industry during World War I begin to buy expensive cloth and fur within its building on Bank Place in downtown Utica. Its call letters are WIBX. • The 14-story First National Bank Building on the northeast corner of Genesee • The Capitol Theatre opens in Rome on December 10; it is the city’s first theater • With the stock market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression, factories • Utica celebrates its centennial as a city. In 1832, it became the sixth city in the • With the passing of the Cullen Act, Utica’s West End Brewery, operated by F.X. operates out of a 25,000 square foot, five-story building on the corner of coats for warmth instead of the heavy undergarments manufactured here. and Elizabeth streets becomes the tallest building in Utica when it opens on able to play the new movies with sound. The first program includes a newsreel, in Utica and the surrounding area begin to lay off their workers or to close. state – following New York City, Albany, Troy, Hudson, and Schenectady. Matt, begins to distribute beer one minute after midnight on April 7th. The company Main and First Streets. The building, listed on the National Register of Fenimore House/New York State Historical Association, ca. 1945, Only six of the nineteen knitting mills that were operating in 1910 are still open. • The New Yorker is first published on February 21st as a humor magazine for the December 3. • Gertrude D. Curran dies, leaving the bulk of her large estate to found the two Vitaphone shorts, and the First National feature Lilac Time, starring Colleen • Richard C. Gerstenberg, a native of Little Falls and a 1927 graduate of had completed all the necessary paperwork in advance of the legalization of beer Historic Places, is designed by Frederick Gouge, a prominent Utica architect Arthur J. Telfer, H: 5 x W: 7 in. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York, Gift of Arthur J. Telfer, 5-03,099. • A statue of Utica’s James Schoolcraft Sherman, 27th vice president of the sophisticated reader. The cover features Eustace Tilley, a dandy figure illustrated Curran Musical Scholarship Fund to benefit student musicians in the Utica Moore and Gary Cooper. • The federal government builds a new main post office in Utica at Broad and Chrysler Building, NYC Mohawk High, joins General Motors in Dayton, OH, as a timekeeper with the • The Niagara Hudson Building (known as the Niagara Mohawk Building) is sales taking effect. also responsible for the 1882-83 addition to Fountain Elms. by art editor Rea Irvin. Hotel Utica adds four stories, bringing it to fourteen floors. This expansion John Streets, as well as a National Guard armory on Culver Avenue. constructed in Syracuse, NY, as the headquarters of the largest electric utility The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute opens to the public, following the death • Rochester newspaper publisher Frank Gannett purchases the Utica Herald- United States from 1909 to1912, is unveiled on Genesee Street and the • public schools. Frigidaire Division. He rises through the ranks to become the eighth chairman of • Utica’s population approaches 102,000. • Elihu Root Dispatch and the Utica Observer. He merges them to create the Observer- Parkway. makes it the second tallest building in Utica and increases its capacity to 350 • Famed aviator, Amelia Earhart, arrives in Utica to visit her sister Muriel, the board and chief executive officer in 1972. company in the nation. Its Art Deco design and the façade’s Spirit of Light remain • Maria Williams Proctor purchases the failing Bagg’s Hotel in Utica for $42,000. • Maria Williams Proctor dies on June 18th at age 82. of Maria Proctor, the last living member of the family. It had been chartered in • Hundreds of migrant workers from such places as Georgia and Florida arrive Dispatch, which continues to publish today. • Bass baritone Paul Robeson makes his debut at a critically acclaimed concert guest rooms. • Flautist Alberto Socarras arrives in New York, bringing Afro-Cuban musical a teacher at the Utica Country Day School in New Hartford. • The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opens to the public. an iconic image for the city. To provide work for unemployed Utica men during the Great Depression, Proctor • Benny Goodman purchases the compositions and arrangements of Fletcher 1919 as “an artistic, musical and social center.” in Oneida County to pick peas and beans, an annual occurrence. • Onondaga Pottery Company (later known as Syracuse China) opens its • Time magazine, based in New York City, is first published on March 3rd. in Greenwich Village. His performance is the first to consist solely of elements to the American jazz scene. • The Empire State Building opens in Manhattan and surpasses the Chrysler directs that no mechanical equipment will be used to demolish the hotel but, rather, Henderson, a well-known black bandleader, and later uses them on the NBC • Congress authorizes the construction of the Fort Stanwix National Monument in Court Street factory, the first linear, one-story facility in the country’s china industry. • The Book of American Negro Poetry, a collection of poetry edited by James Negro spirituals. • The New York City council enacts restrictions on music performances in the hope • Amateur color movie making becomes possible with Kodak’s introduction of • Maria and Thomas Proctor publically announce plans to establish the Munson- • With thousands in Utica unemployed, an Emergency Employment Bureau is Building as the tallest building in the world. • MoMA opens an exhibition on International Style, displaying images of the all work will be done by manual labor. She also commissions the Bagg’s Square radio show Let’s Dance. Goodman becomes the first white bandleader to be Rome, NY. The Great Depression and World War II delay the project until the • Boonville novelist Walter D. Edmonds publishes Drums Along the Mohawk, • Municipal swimming pools are built in East and West Utica. Buckley Pool • A new museum, now known as The Fenimore Art Museum, moves to • The Savage Arms Company in Utica receives a $27 million order from the This plant produced hotel wares such as patterned dining sets. Weldon Johnson is published by the New York office of Harcourt, Brace and • The “Charleston” (music and lyrics by James P. Johnson and Cecil Mack) makes • The Utica Automobile Club and the Automobile Club of Central New York of cracking down on cabarets. These restrictions are not repealed until 1988. • Duke Ellington is hired by the Cotton Club, an all-white Harlem nightclub. He 16mm KODACOLOR film. The Rochester, NY-based company stays in the Williams-Proctor Institute, which had been chartered in 1919. established. It quickly raises $80,000 to pay workers to do odd jobs throughout contemporary modernist architecture of Europe. This exhibition is co-curated by Memorial and has the steeple of Grace Church dismantled and rebuilt. considered a jazz master. 1970s and a replica of the old fort is dedicated on May 22, 1976. a novel about the Upper Mohawk Valley’s involvement in the American and Addison Miller Pools are still in use today. Cooperstown through the efforts of Stephen C. Clark Sr. Clark was a Department of War to manufacture Thompson submachine guns for the 105 12 pt 105 18 pt 105 24 pt 105 36 pt 200 105 48 pt Bell Labs, based in New York, develops a moving armature lateral cutting the city. Revolutionary War. It quickly sells 500,000 copies. 60 pt • Thomas R. Proctor, Utica’s great benefactor, dies on July 4th. Company. This begins the New Negro Movement (later referred to as the its Broadway debut in Runnin’ Wild at the New Colonial Theater. 105 merge to form the Automobile Club of Utica and Central New York.