{"nrhp_refnum":"16000367","name":"Central Troy Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Adams, 1st, 4th, Washington & Hill Sts., Franklin Pl., 5th Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Troy","county":"Rensselaer County","state":"NY","lat":42.72879305300006,"lon":-73.6911966757984,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2016-06-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 96-acre historic district covering the commercial and residential core of Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, with 679 contributing features dating from 1787 to about 1940. It consolidates five previously listed districts and several individually listed buildings.","why_significant":"The district contains the largest concentration of intact, significant resources illustrating the growth of Troy's commercial and residential center. It reflects the city's prosperity as a Hudson River trade and manufacturing center, especially in the second half of the nineteenth century. The streetscapes are unified by comparable architectural quality and historical development, and they differ sharply from the surrounding neighborhoods.","narrative":"Central Troy, on the east bank of the Hudson River in Rensselaer County, is a roughly 96-acre district that holds the city's commercial center and several residential neighborhoods. It includes 659 contributing buildings, 17 structures and 3 objects dating from 1787 to about 1940, and it brings together five earlier historic districts along with other nearby buildings of similar character. River Street warehouses rebuilt after the 1820 fire show Troy's rise as a river trade center. Monument Square, Banker's Row on First Street and the grand rowhouses of Second Street show the range of commercial and residential building. Styles run from Federal and Greek Revival to Italianate, Queen Anne and Renaissance Revival, with brick as the dominant material. The boundaries separate this concentration of intact buildings from surrounding areas that are more altered, more modern or less sophisticated in scale. Together the buildings document the prosperity of a manufacturing and trade city, especially in the later nineteenth century.","period_of_significance":"1787 to c. 1940","architect_builder":"Several architects are named for individual buildings, including Vaux and Withers (Rice Building), Town and Davis (Cannon Building) and W.L. and J.W. Woolett (YMCA Building).","architectural_style":"Wide range of styles, including Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, High Victorian Gothic, Renaissance Revival and Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked as occupied, with uses including commercial, educational, residential, religious, government and museum. Some resources have been altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:47.948899-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/86001527.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/16000367/8cf6963464-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/16000367/8cf6963464-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"BenFrantzDale","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Troy_NY_Fall.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">BenFrantzDale</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Troy_NY_Fall.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"86001527","name":"Central Troy Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/central-troy-historic-district-86001527/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321192","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Troy_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1054027"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rensselaer-county/central-troy-historic-district-boundary-increase-16000367/"}