Park View
The Glens Falls Land Company announced on September 28, 1911, that twenty-five men had spent two weeks preparing a new subdivision named Park View overlooking the city's Crandall Park. Among the many amenities in the new development were rows of elm trees along the 100-foot wide streets, a central park featuring a 1,600 x 25 foot flower garden, and extra wide lots measuring 50 feet wide and 150 feet deep ①. The subdivision also had "adequate restrictions," such that "No lots will be sold to undesirable foreigners ② ③ ④.”
The subdivision was laid out on Park View, Hicks, and Jerome Avenues, Dixon Road, and the Speedway. In total, it had 108 lots.
Despite repeated published claims that both the Glens Falls Land Company and Charles S. Powell would prevent "foreigners" from buying land in the neighborhood, a sample of deeds from that period do not contain racial restrictive covenants and no declaration of restrictions has been found to date.
The 1912 newspaper advertisement below also strongly suggests that the subdivision barred non-whites from purchasing land in Park View:
Additional research on Park View is needed.
Western Park
Vermont-based real estate developer Bruce R. Corliss opened the Western Park subdivision in 1927 in the Town of Queensbury, immediately north of Glens Falls. The plat map shows 947 lots on Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Central, East, and South Avenues ⑤. Typical of Corliss developments across Upstate New York, Western Park was advertised as "Restricted to Americans only ⑥" and "The lots are sold to Americans only ⑦."
Corliss signed and submitted a deed for lots #113, 114, 115, 116, & 117 in the subdivision in 1927 that included the following racial restrictive covenant:
Mountain View Park
Bruce Corliss also opened Mountain View Park in 1927 in Queensbury. Land on Iowa, Kansas, and California Avenues was subdivided into 118 lots. The two subdivisions were advertised side-by-side in local newspapers as "American Developments," as in the example below:
Corliss signed and submitted a 1927 deed for lots #34 and 35 in the development that included his standard racial restrictive covenant:
① The Post-Star (Glens Falls), 28 September 1911, p. 10. Accessed via nyshistoricnewspapers.org
② The Post-Star (Glens Falls), 12 October 1911, p. 8. Accessed via nyshistoricnewspapers.org
③ Glens Falls Daily Times, September 27, 1911, p. 2. Accessed via fultonhistory.com
④ Glens Falls Daily Times, September 28, 1911, p. 3. Accessed via fultonhistory.com
⑤ “Western Park” (RSC Folder 282, Catalog #1679, Office of the Warren County Clerk, Warren County, NY).
⑥ The Glens Falls Times, July 25, 1927, p. 7. Accessed via nyshistoricnewspapers.org
⑦ The Glens Falls Times, July 23, 1927, p. 14. Accessed via nyshistoricnewspapers.org
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The Post-Star (Glens Falls, NY), 9 April 1912, p. 8. Accessed via nyshistoricnewspapers.org
The Post-Star (Glens Falls, NY), May 4, 1912, p. 7. Accessed via nyshistoricnewspapers.org. Highlight added.
EXCERPT: Deed, 12 August 1927, Deed Book 173, page 252-4, Office of the Warren County Clerk, Warren County, NY.
EXCERPT: Deed, 1 September 1927, Deed Book 173, page 554-5, Office of the Warren County Clerk, Warren County, NY.
The Glens Falls Times, July 23, 1927, p. 14. Accessed via nyshistoricnewspapers.org
