Midtown Realty Co. is committed to customer service and has proudly
been serving clients since the 1950's. Midtown Realty Co. opened it's
doors in the 1950’s by Judge Joseph Ricotta of Dunkirk, NY. It then
changed hands and Judge August Jankowski assumed ownership. Today
Midtown Realty Co. has a full time experienced Broker/President and
22 active agents dedicated to servicing your needs.
Our experienced sales team
consists of licensed agents and associate brokers committed to
their clients looking to buy or sell their home or commercial property.
President and Broker, Bonita M. Saletta has owned and operated
Midtown Realty Co since 1997. In 2007 and 2008 Midtown was voted
"number one" Real Estate Agency in the Evening Observer's Reader's
Choice Awards. Midtown has a strong community involvement and sponsors
several sports teams and charities, see my home page for more details on Midtown's
Community involvement.
Midtown Realty Co is currently located in Fredonia, NY. Fredonia is a
village in Chautauqua County, New York. The population was 10,706 at
the 2000 census. The Village of Fredonia is in the Town of Pomfret south
of Lake Erie. The village borders the City of Dunkirk and is the home of
the
State University of New York Fredonia (in the northwest part of the
village).
The Village of Fredonia was incorporated in 1829. Established within 20
years of the founding of the Village of Fredonia, the Fredonia Academy
was the first higher educational institution in Chautauqua County. It was
started in 1824, and opened in 1826. The Academy became a State Normal
School in 1866. On August 8, 1867, a long-awaited event took place when
the cornerstone of the Fredonia Normal School was laid on a site where the
Old Main building stands today. The Normal School used the Academy's
building, which stood on the site of the present Village Hall, until the
Old Normal was completed in 1868. Thereafter the Academy building was used
for some time as Fire Department Headquarters. Today the building houses
the Village offices and includes the 1891 Fredonia Opera House, a former
Vaudeville theater that fell into disrepair in the 1970s while being
operated as a movie house. The Theater underwent a complete nine-year
restoration in the 1980s by the Fredonia Preservation Society and a cadre
of volunteers. It now serves as a year-round performing arts center. In
1930 under the director of the Normal School, Hermann Cooper, 58 acres of
land west of Central Avenue were bought with the dream that one day it would
become a campus. The construction of a music building took place in 1939 and
in 1942 the Feinberg Law changed the Normal School into a Teachers College.
By the late 1940s the college became a vital part of the new State
University of New York or SUNY system.
In the mid 19th century Fredonia became the home of the first dues-paying
Grange. The United States' first Grange Hall was erected in Fredonia during
the late 1860s (the Fredonia Grange was established on April 16, 1868), and
the original building (Grange Hall #1) still stands on Main Street. Fredonia
was also host to the first meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union,
which was held at the Fredonia Baptist Church in 1873.
During the Olympic Torch's trip in the 1996 Atlanta Summer games, a sixth
grade teacher from Fredonia Middle School carried the torch as it went
through the town on US Route 20.
Until 2000, Fredonia had been best known as the location of the Buffalo
Bills Summer training camp. The Bills moved their training camp in 2000 to
St. John Fisher College near Rochester, New York.
Samuel L. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain had connections to Fredonia,
via relatives. Notable resident Jennifer Stuczynski, 2008 Beijing Olympic
Games pole vaulting silver medal winner was born and raised in Fredonia,
NY where her family still resides.
Learn more about the history of
Fredonia, NY: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredonia,_New_York
See whats happening in Fredonia, NY: http://village.fredonia.ny.us/
