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Potter House 2 - 205 Ontario Street346 viewsThis photo is from the 1936 Pedagogue. Note the EEP sign over the stairway. This house was occupied by the Club in the Fall 1935. The Club held its first open house in Fall of 1935. At the time there were 11 Potter upper classmen residing at the house. It continued as a Potter residency until the Fall of 1938, at which time the move was made to 495 State Street. This information from Norm Arnold, `40, who lived right across the street with Richard Dooley, `40, in their Frosh year. The earliest date of occupancy and details of the Open House have been confirmed from University records by Paul Ward, `53. There is some dispute about the correct address on Ontario. Some sources say it was 203. even 213 was mentioned. The house pictured at 205 sits at the corner of Ontario and State Streets. The area to the rear of the house is vacant in the 1936 picture. The building was apparently owned by the College. After the move by Potter Club to 495 State Street, it was then occupied by Sigma Lambda Sigma, according to information on their web site (see links on our home page).
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Potter House 2 - 205 Ontario Street in 2006266 viewsThe house pictured here in 2006 sits at the corner of Ontario and State Streets. You may be able to see the corner of Brubacher Hall at the rear in this picture. That area is vacant in the 1936 picture.
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Potter House 4 - 415 State Street277 viewsThere was no Potter House from 1943 to 1948. When the Club reorganized in 1948, the house at 415 State Street became Potter House. It housed men at times on 4 floors, including a room at the front in the basement. The basement also housed the kitchen. The main floor contained a living room, two dining rooms, a library, and a serving kitchen. Men were housed on the second and third floors with rooms ranging from capacities of 2 to 4. Three additional rooms located on the fourth floor housed some of the kitchen and wait staff. These rooms included a single and two doubles. The rest of the 4th floor was attic.
The building (as it appears in 2006) was leased from the Albany YMCA which occupied the mirror-image building across the courtyard at the left of the photo. The house at 415 State Street was occupied from 1948 until 1964. The building is now part of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, housed in the adjoining building at 413 State Street. 415 State Street is known as the Malcolm Wilson Building.
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Potter House 1 - 415 Washington Avenue273 viewsThis part of the history of Potter Houses was provided by Carlton Coulter, President, 1935. Carlton shared his vivid recollections of this history at the Potter Luncheon, Latham, November, 13, 2007. The site of the house is directly across the street from the back side of the Downtown Campus. It is just West of the Unitarian Church. The original house has been torn down and is now the site of an extension of the Church. While the exact street address is not certain, the existing buildings on either side shown in the photos below are 405 and 421.
The house was originally occupied in the Fall of 1933 by five Potter Club members and a couple of non-members, and was called "Chiseler's Inn." Housing for students in these days was oftentimes in private homes or privately owned houses that accommodated several students. In 1934 the house was solely occupied by Pottermen, becoming the first official Potter House.
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Potter House 3 - 495 State Street270 viewsThe house, as it appeared in 2006 (the one in the middle of the photo, with the triple-wide front window to the right of the entrance) was occupied by the Club in the Fall of 1938 as the third Potter House. Paul Ward `53, confirmed from the research that the house was occupied until 1943.
The State College News carried the following announcement in its September 30, 1938 issue:
The Edward Eldred Potter Club will conduct a housewarming party at the new fraternity house, 495 State Street, from 8:30 - 12:00. Potter throws its doors open to the entire student body. Everyone is urged to attend.
V. Edward Burke, 1942, was House Manager probably in his Senior year (1941-1942).
Because of declining male college enrollment during WWII , Potter Club disbanded. In the fall of 1943 the house was renamed Stokes Hall and became the home to 18 NYSCT coeds, according to Rosalie Pooler Stage, 1947. She lived in 495 State Street as a sophomore in 1944-1945.
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Potter House 6 - Hamilton Hall,, University at Albany265 viewsTwo dormitories on the uptown site housed Potter Club; Stuyvesant Hall, on the Dutch Quad, and (pictured here) Hamilton Hall, on the Colonial Quad .
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Potter House 5 - Stuyvesant Hall, University at Albany265 viewsThe Club moved from 415 State Street to the then new Uptown Campus in 1964, occupying dormitory space assigned by the University, similar to what was happening to all of the fraternal groups. If an organization had sufficient occupancy, the dorm or hall could be designated the fraternal "House." Two dormitories on the uptown site housed Potter Club in the ensuing years. Stuyvesant Hall, on the Dutch Quad, and Hamilton Hall, on the Colonial Quad. This picture is of Stuyvesant.
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Potter House 7 - Waterbury Hall,, University at Albany346 viewsWaterbury Hall, on the Downtown Quad, was the last residence of Potter Club
sometime in the late 1970's and early 1980/81. The downtown Quad, pictured below. Waterbury fronts on Western Avenue at the left.
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