Alfred Dolge, born December 22, 1848, and died January 5, 1922, in Milan, Italy, was an industrialist, inventor, author, and progressive businessman who was buried in Dolgeville Cemetery in July 1922. Around 1900, Dolgeville included the Union Free School, dedicated October 15, 1887, designed by William Kuhles of New York, and later razed in 1962 for a P and C supermarket; the Cottage Hotel, erected about 1887, later known as the Valmar Hotel from the mid-1940s until 1984 and as Arthur’s Restaurant from 1984 to the present; the American Hotel, standing around 1900 after being erected in 1894 as the Lenz Hotel and razed in 1922 for Saint Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church; a bird’s-eye view showing Dolge Avenue, Park Avenue, East Canada Creek, Saint John’s Episcopal Church, erected in 1893, and Daniel Green and Company Factory Number 1; the Dolgeville Hotel, seen around 1911, erected in 1886 as the Stoddard House Hotel, with its rear wing relocated in 1884 from the corner of Elm Street and Main Street, and converted in 1918 to a residential and retail building; and Turn Hall, or Turnverein Club, erected in 1894 by Adolf Wegner and Brothers of Frankfort, New York, used by the Dolgeville Felt Shoe Company from 1902 to 1920 and by various slipper manufacturers from 1920 to 2000.