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108 Park Place is of course right next door to 110 Park Place, where the Clossons lived in Schenectady. They apparently owned that building too.
Below is a picture of it as it appears now. On the left is 110 Park Place. It seems that 108 has the better lot, but maybe it didn't back then.
In 1920, the census shows both flats rented. In one, there are four people: William Pettis (30), his wife Theresa (29) and their infant son, William Jr. (1 mo) There is also a 22-year-old single boarder, Mr. William Parker. Mr. Pettis is a bookkeeper for the city, and his boarder is a coil winder for the Electric Company.
In the other, there are six people, five of whom are adults. Sounds a bit crowded! There is the widowed Anna McGadien and her son, Walter. There is also a daughter listed, 22-month-old Lois, but since Mrs. McGadien is 61 years old, I'm going to guess that Lois is actually Walter's daughter, born out of wedlock, perhaps. Mrs. McGadien's occupation is housekeeper for a boarding house, presumably the one she lives in. There are three boarders, all single: Thomas Stafford (28), W.H. Miewker (24), and Henrietta Yerdon (32). Thomas and Henrietta are both clerks in factories (Thomas at GE, Henrietta at the locomotive factory), and Mr. Miewker, from Germany, is an electrician for the locomotive works.
Here is some information about the locomotive factory, taken from Wikipedia:
The Schenectady Locomotive Works built railroad locomotives from its founding in 1848 through its merger into American Locomotive Company (Alco) in 1901.[1] After the 1901 merger, Alco made the Schenectady plant its headquarters in Schenectady, New York. One of the better-known locomotives to come out of the Schenectady shops was Central Pacific Railroad type 4-4-0 No. 60, the Jupiter (built in September 1868), one of two steam locomotives to take part in the "Golden Spike Ceremony" to celebrate the completion of theFirst Transcontinental Railroad.And a picture of how it looked in 1920:
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