12 Of the Most Incredible Buildings in Upstate New York!

Upstate New York has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to famous buildings. This gallery showcases a dozen of the best.

And what a variety! Here you will find a rustic mountaintop cabin in the Catskills that was the home of one of the most famous men in America in his time. He is also buried here, under a rock in a field out back. You will find the only Peace Pagoda in New York State tucked away in the woods near the Massachusetts/Vermont border. Very interesting. How about two unusual twin octagonal railroad towers in the North Country? A mansion "hanging off the side of a mountain?" And don't forget a coffee shop in Rochester that is an absolute temple to Art Deco beauty. All of these are very cool.

And what is that odd looking building at the top of this gallery? It has an interesting story to it and is one of the last of its kind still standing in the United States.

This will be a first in a series of galleries that put the spotlight on Upstate's most unique, beautiful, and historic buildings. We will do them a dozen at a time (there are hundreds).

If you know of an amazing building no our region that you would like us to highlight, please visit us over on our Facebook page and give it a shout out. We really do want to hear from you!

12 Of the Most Amazing Buildings (Big and Small) In Upstate New York

Upstate New York plays host to hundreds of the most amazing buildings in the United States. This gallery looks at a dozen of the best. They range from mansions to rustic mountaintop cabins, and from an industrial gas holding building (amazing) to twin octagonal rail road towers, and from the only Frank Gehry building in Upstate New York to a religious shrine north of Niagara Falls. . Check this out. These are incredible!

Gallery Credit: Chuck D'Imperio

These Are the 12 Biggest Shopping Malls in Upstate New York

The size of the enclosed malls of Upstate New York covers a whole range of numbers. You have several large malls with between 50-100 stores, and then you have several behemoth malls which host much more than that. For example, #12 on this list has 55 stores and has been open for more than 50 years. Sounds like a pretty respectable mall, doesn't it? Compare that to the #2 on this list which is so large it has more than 18,000 parking spaces!

In this gallery, we have also mentioned some of the original anchor stores for these malls dating back to when they opened. It is fun to hear the old names like Sibley's, Filenes, McCurdy's, and G. Fox and Company again. Here are the 12 largest enclosed malls in Upstate New York. (We include all regions of Upstate including the upper and lower Hudson Valley. This list does not reflect the large malls of metropolitan New York City or Long Island).

Gallery Credit: Chuck D'Imperio

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