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During the 19th and 20th centuries, the European immigrants coming into Poughkeepsie usually settled in the neighborhoods nearest the river.
In the early 1900s, there were a significant number of factories in Poughkeepsie that provided good jobs.
Around 1900 -- The Smith Brothers Candy Store and their restaurant -- both on Market Street were popular places.
1901 -- The Young family purchased Locust Grove (former home of Samuel F. B. Morse) near the golf course. They helped start the up-scale residential movement south of the city.
1903 -- The Polish-Americans established St. Joseph's Church on Lafayette Place.
1904 -- An Italianate-style courthouse designed by William Beardsley was completed. (It’s the courthouse that stands today.)
1904 -- The original Luckey-Platt store had expanded into a five-story building.
1904 -- The Fitchett Brothers Cross Road Farms dairy business was started.
1905 -- Edmund Platt published his History of Poughkeepsie.
1905 -- Construction was started on the Ebenezer Baptist Church near Clinton Square.
1905 -- The Marist brothers acquired the Edward Bech estate. It became St. Ann's Hermitage.
1911 -- The AME Zion Church was built. It was designed by DuBois Carpenter.
1911 -- Mrs. Nettie Bowne built the Bowne Memorial Hospital for tuberculosis patients in memory of her husband, Samuel Bowne. (Today it is the administration building of the Dutchess Community College.)
1912 -- The Robert Sanford house at 29 North Hamilton Street was torn down to build Poughkeepsie High School. In the 1950s, after the new high school opened on Forbus Street, the building on Hamilton was Our Lady of Lourdes High School. It is now the Poughkeepsie Family Partnership Center.
1914 -- The Dutchess County Historical Society was established.
1914 -- The Smith Brothers cough drop factory moved to North Hamilton Street.
1915-1946 -- Henry Noble MacCracken was president of Vassar College.
1917 -- A spectacular fire devastated the Collegiate Hill School/Hotel Building on College Hill. The fire department could not pump water to the top of the hill. The school building was replaced by the Guilford Dudley Memorial – a small scale version of the Parthenon. Dudley was a wealthy industrialist who bequeathed money to build a memorial to the school that had existed on the spot.
1918 -- The Poughkeepsie Railroad Station, designed by Warren and Wetmore, who also were the architects for Grand Central Terminal,was opened.
1920 – The original Luckey-Platt store was torn down in 1920 in order to build a new, larger and more modern store whicj opened four years later.
1920s -- The Nelson House Inn (with roots back to 1777) was a popular hotel and meeting place. It was close to the courthouse and across the street from the Bardavon.
1920s -- The Pomfret House Hotel and Arcade was located at the intersection of Main and Market.
1920s -- The Riverview Military Academy closed and Lincoln Center took it over in order to present neighborhood services and programs. The school was located where the Lincoln Park soccer field is today.
1920s -- The swimming pool at Woodcliff Pleasure Park was the largest pool in the east. It could handle 3,000 people at one time. The park was built on land that once was the estate of John L. Winslow. (Today it is the site of the Marist College townhouses.)
1923 -- The Collingwood Opera House became the Bardavon, a movie house with vaudeville acts.
1923 -- The children's room was opened at Adriance Memorial Library.
1924 -- The new Luckey-Platt Department Store opened. For years, it was “the place” for everyone in the mid-Hudson valley to shop.
1925-1930 -- The FDR Mid-Hudson Bridge was being built.
1929 -- The Marist Normal Training School, in conjunction with Fordham University, granted B.A. degrees.
1930 -- The Mid-Hudson Bridge was dedicated by local resident, at the time New York State Governor, and future U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His wife Eleanor was present.
1930 -- Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated a statue of Irishman Thomas Dongan, Provincial Governor of New York from 1683 to1687, at the intersection of Delafield and Mill Streets (in Dongan Park adjacent to Dongan Place.)
1931 – Eastman Business College, one of the oldest and at one time the largest school of business in the U.S., closed because of declining enrollment.
1932 -- The Polish-American Citizens' Hall was built at 19 North Bridge Street.
1934 -- Poughkeepsie Day School for young children was founded (originally on the Vassar College campus.)
1935 -- Trolley service ended.
1937 -- The WPA built a miniature Parthenon memorial on the top of College Hill and presented it to the city.
1937 -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the new post office.
1937 -- The Woodcliff Pleasure Park had become the city's principle playground.
1938 -- College Hill had greenhouses and a beautiful rock garden begun in 1931 by Clarence Lown.
1940 -- Marian Anderson performed at the auditorium of Poughkeepsie High School.
1940 – The Violet Avenue School in Hyde Park was opened. It reflected the American Colonial Revival architectural ideas of Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the early 1940s, once the Mid-Hudson Bridge was opened for traffic, ferries across the Hudson from Poughkeepsie to Highland disappeared.
From 1941 and into the 1990s IBM was the dominant economic force in Dutchess County.
-=End of Part 2=-
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