The portrait of Rosanna Vosburg is displayed near a china cabinet in the butler’s pantry in the Ten Broeck Mansion, where she lived and worked for four decades after the Olcott family purchased it.

Digging into history isn’t about doting on the past, said Kathryn Kosto, executive director of Ten Broeck Mansion and Albany County Historical Association. Instead, it’s for “the present and ...

It’s a story we celebrate, especially during Black History Month,” said Kathryn Kosto, executive director of the Albany Historical Association’s Ten Broeck Mansion in Arbor Hill, where ...