The Historic Stockade

The Nineteenth Century

Two events changed the commercial life of The Stockade. In 1819, a disastrous fire destroyed businesses near The Mohawk River, and several years later The Erie Canal provided water transportation outside the old Stockade boundaries. Businesses rebuilt in a new part of town. Community life still centered in The Stockade; but the area continued as mainly residential, retaining a diverse architectural legacy of houses, churches, and public buildings...

Front Street

(1) House along Front Street. (2) The statue of Lawrence, the Iroquois Indian in the median
between Front Street, Green Street, and Ferry Street, build 1887. He helped the colonists
after the Schenectady Massacre of 1690. (3) House along Front Street.