GLOVERSVILLE

Lake View Grove

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In 1921 Harvey E. Reese of Gloversville and Edward F. Gustin of Johnstown created the Lake View Grove subdivision in nearby Caroga, NY.  Located on the shore of Caroga Lake, the subdivision consisted of 62 lots on Balsam, Pine, Grove, and Lake View Avenues.  Deeds signed and submitted by the two developers to the Fulton County Clerk's Office contained the following racial covenant:

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Fulton Terrace

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Grafton Johnson, a prominent Indianapolitan whose “real estate holdings included property in sixty-three cities in ten states ①," developed Fulton Terrace in Gloversville in 1923.  The subdivision consisted of 203 lots on Marvin, Myrtle, and Arlington Avenues, Summit and East Streets, including 6 lots fronting East Fulton Street.

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Newspaper ads for the subdivision appearing in the Gloversville Morning Herald proclaimed that lots were "Restricted to Americans Only!" and that land would only be sold to "American Citizens who can read and write the English language ②."  Although literacy requirements are absent from deeds in the Fulton Terrace subdivision, Johnson did sign and submit deeds that included the following racial restrictive covenant:

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Belmont

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The Belmont Addition in Gloversville was developed by N.P. Dodge & Company in 1923.  The subdivision was adjacent to Myers Park and encompassed 238 lots on Beaver, Nassau, Lenox, Hill, Fairfax, Belmont, Addison, Bloomingdale, and Park Streets, Kingsboro Avenue, and the Parkway.  The advertisement below and that appeared in The Morning Herald proclaimed, "“Every lot is restricted to White people for all time….”

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As was typical of N.P. Dodge additions across Upstate New York, deeds such as that for Lot #174 -- signed by Nathan P. Dodge -- included a racial covenant:

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The Gloversville Board of Education purchased a large portion of the Belmont Addition for $9000 on January 6, 1947, as the future site of Terrace Park Elementary School ③.

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① “Grafton Johnson, Capitalist, is Dead.”  The Indianapolis Times (Indianapolis, Indiana), Thu, Aug 16, 1934, p. 1.  Accessed via newspapers.com

​②  Ironically, one newspaper advertisement read: "Land sold only to American Citizens who can read and white [sic] the English language." [The Morning Herald (Gloversville, NY), June 29, 1923, p. 2.  Accessed via fultonhistory.com].

③  Leader-Herald (Gloversville, NY), January 6, 1977, p. 13.  Accessed via fultonhistory.com

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