Glens Falls Hospital history

Patient treatment began in 1900.

The B.B. Fowler store and 15 other buildings on the west side of Glen Street were destroyed in 1902 in what become known as the Third Great Fire of Glens Falls.

Charles Evans Hughes, a Glens Falls native, signed the city charter on March 13, 1908, and on March 31, Cool, a Republican, was elected the city’s first mayor, receiving about 53 percent of the vote.

It all started in 1911, when Braydon left the Cluett & Son piano store, where he had worked for five years, to strike out on his own as a representative of Hallet, Davis & Co., the third largest piano manufacturer in the world, at the time.

But Crandall, who died in 1913, has not been forgotten, and some suggest his child-like spirit still inhabits Henry’s playground, a park open for all to enjoy.

Around 1917, The Crandall Trust, which owned and managed the park after Crandall’s death, hired architect Percival Gallagher of Brookline, Mass., to redesign landscaping of the park.

In 1919, the business moved to its long-time location at what is now the intersection of Glen Street and Hudson Avenue.

By 1922 Hall’s was a major wholesale supplier of premium ice cream around northern New York and Vermont.

Crandell stopped using his first name professionally around 1925.

26, 1932, two days after Cool died at his home at 50 Warren Street. “He could not keep it out of his conversation; he translated it into fruitful endeavor in public office and private business.”

It re-opened in January 1933, showing second-run features, but closed permanently a few months later.

“The Sugar Bowl at 103 Glen Street makes its own homemade ice cream right in the shop,” The Post-Star reported in 1935. “The appetizing quality of flavors and the smooth consistency of this ice cream are the result of new fast freezing process made possible by new, up-to-date equipment.”

“Movie folks will always draw larger crowds than Veeps,” Walter Winchell wrote in a September 1957 syndicated column. “When Richard Nixon visited Glens Falls, NY, about 1,500 people turned out.

It later became Glens Falls Hospital and in 1965 established a credit union for its employees: Glens Falls Hospital Employees Federal Credit Union.

Doc and his wife Jean bought the business in 1966, around the time of Doc’s father’s death, and the next year renovated and expanded the building, quadrupling the size of the kitchen and increasing seating to capacity to 60 people.

Around 1976, the owner of The Paramount put it up for sale, asking $85,000.

In March 1979, Mark Frost, then an announcer at WWSC radio and now editor of The Chronicle weekly newspaper, organized a group that made a last-ditch effort to find an investor that would buy the building and reopen it as a theater showing older and foreign films.

1980 was a year of baseball in Glens Falls, highlighted with Mayor Edward Bartholomew’s whirlwind recruitment of the White Sox, the Double A franchise of the Chicago White Sox, that played at East Field in Glens Falls for five seasons.

Actor Christopher Reeve was scheduled to visit the closing day of the Adirondack Balloon Festival in 1990 to take a balloon flight with pilot Thomas Ford of Queensbury, The Post-Star reported several times before and during the festival.

An avid fan of Sherlock Holmes and all mysteries, Cutshall-King co-edited “Sherlock Holmes, Victorian Sleuth to Modern Hero" with Sally Sugarman and Charles R. Putney (Scarecrow Press, Rowman & Littlefield; 1996). The book is a series of essays on the famed detective.

Developer Mike Kaidas bought the building in 2007 and renovated it for a retail, office and apartment complex.

Thompson is collaborating with Snarky Aardvark Films to produce a documentary about Charles Evans Hughes and the Adirondacks, which is expected to release in 2020.