

"O-D building in downtown Utica sold to The Mohawk Observer, LLC". History of the Mohawk Valley : gateway to the West, 1614-1925, covering the six counties of Schenectady, Schoharie, Montgomery, Fulton, Herkimer and Oneida. Our county and its people: a descriptive work on Oneida County, New York.

GateHouse Media's parent company merged with Gannett in 2019, returning the Observer-Dispatch to Gannett once more. Gannett owned the newspaper until 2007, when it was purchased by GateHouse Media. The Utica Daily Press and the Utica Observer-Dispatch merged in 1987, and were renamed to the current Observer-Dispatch. Gannet also purchased the Utica Daily Press in 1935. Gannett purchased the Herald-Dispatch at the same time and combined the two, creating the Utica Observer-Dispatch. In 1922 the paper was purchased by Frank E. The two-story building was expanded to three stories in 1930, with the name "Utica Observer-Dispatch" engraved in the stone above the third story windows. Construction began in 1914 on a new office for the Observer, which was completed in 1915. The Observer's facilities were destroyed in 1884 by a fire. Grove, who simultaneously served as mayor of Utica from 1860 to 1862. The paper consolidated with the Utica Democrat in 1852, bringing with it long-time editor Dewitt C.

The paper briefly moved to Rome, New York and published under the name of the Oneida Observer, but returned to Utica after. Newsboys for one of the precursors of The Observer-Dispatch in 1910, photographed by Lewis HineĮliasaph Dorchester founded the weekly Utica Observer in 1817.
