Constructed between 1892 and 1893, the New York, Ontario & Western Railway Station stands as one of Middletown’s most significant historic landmarks. Designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by prominent railroad architect Bradford Lee Gilbert, the station served both as a passenger terminal and as the principal offices of the Ontario & Western Railway. Expansions in 1904 and 1920, designed by local architect David Canfield, reflected the railroad’s growth and introduced new architectural elements while preserving the building’s commanding presence. 
NTCIC provided a $5 million New Markets Tax Credit allocation, as well as an equity investment in the $13 million federal and state Historic Tax Credits generated by the Project. These investments supported the rehabilitation of the Ontario & Western Railway Station and its conversion into a community serving childcare facility.
In addition to NTCIC’s NMTC allocation, the Project leveraged an additional $7 million in New Markets Tax Credit allocation from Empire State New Market Corporation, as well as more than $30.05MM from the City of Middletown which included cash on hand, bond proceeds, ARPA funds, and $7.9MM in NY state agency
With a foundation as a sophisticated mail-order operation that began in 1889, Sears Roebuck & Company successfully created the role of “buyer for the American farm” by connecting rural people to retail goods. Its goals were to reach communities in rural areas that had limited access to retail stores and to provide affordable and quality goods that might otherwise only be found in the largest cities.
Designed by Albert Kahn, the famed “architect of Detroit,” the McCullough Center was Ford’s first assembly plant outside of the Motor City. 
Constructed in 1912, the George W. Adair School is a two-story brick building located at the heart of the Adair Park neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia. Adair Park, a “bungalow suburb,” was developed between the 1890s to the 1940s and features a variety of unique architectural styles, including Queen Anne and Folk Victorian, English Revival, and the predominant American Craftsman bungalows.
In the late 1800s, Fall River, Massachusetts, had become one of the country’s leading textile regions in America and, by the turn of the century, housed more than 1 million spindles in operation, second in the world to only Manchester, England. Originally known as the Bradford Durfee Textile School, the facility opened its doors in 1904 to provide advanced courses in textile manufacturing and chemistry to educate the rapidly growing population of local mill workers.
The 74,000 square foot, five-building campus will soon become the Creative Class Lofts and provide 44 market-rate apartments, 11 affordable apartments for practicing artists, and 23,345 square feet of commercial, community, and retail space.
Built in 1909, the historic Odell Building at 21 North Avenue was one of the first, if not the first, commercial buildings located on what is now known as North Avenue in Baltimore City, Maryland. During the mid-1800s, Taney Place was an upper-class residential boulevard of many free-standing estates and large rowhouses. The street began to transition to more high-end commercial use with the construction of 21 North Avenue, which housed the Auto Outing Company, a luxury Buick sales and service station, and Tuttle’s Dancing Academy. Generations of Baltimore’s upper-class took lessons at this academy, including Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor.
The historic General Electric complex and its contribution to the community began in 1881 with the establishment of the Fort Wayne Electric Company. After meeting with the inventor of one of the earliest variations of arc lighting, local entrepreneur Ranald Macdonald established the Fort Wayne electric company to manufacture and sell the Jenney arc lighting system for Indiana and four other states. Within four years, the Fort Wayne Electric Works had grown from a start-up enterprise to a successful and growing business. By 1892, Fort Wayne Electric caught the eye of and was acquired by the General Electric (GE) company, one of the three largest electrical companies in the country at the time.
Upon taking control of the Fort Wayne Electric Works, General Electric invested heavily in expanding its operations in Fort Wayne. Through World War I and into the heady economic years of the 1920s, the company continued to grow exponentially. The company was at the forefront of the rise of electrical streetcar systems and the leader of electrical consumer appliances. As America electrified, General Electric grew rapidly. By the mid-1940s, the complex supported more than 20,000 employees.
