{"nrhp_refnum":"80002578","name":"Center Square-Hudson-Park Historic District (Additional Documentation)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Park Ave., State, Lark and S. Swan Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Albany","county":"Albany County","state":"NY","lat":42.65216078200007,"lon":-73.76503164779044,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 110-acre, 27-block predominantly residential historic district in Albany, New York, made up of the Center Square and Hudson-Park neighborhoods, with buildings mostly dating from 1845 to 1920.","why_significant":"The district is a harmonious collection of nineteenth and early twentieth-century urban architecture, mainly rowhouses, with both architect-designed and builder-designed examples across many eclectic styles. Some buildings have a sophistication comparable to Boston's Back Bay and New York City's West Side. It also documents Albany's growth after the Erie Canal opened, and it includes both well-to-do and working-class housing.","narrative":"Center Square/Hudson-Park is a 27-block neighborhood on a hilltop in Albany, New York, made up largely of attached brick and brownstone townhouses. Most of its roughly 1,200 buildings went up between 1845 and 1920, after the Erie Canal's opening fueled the city's growth and the Ruttenkill Creek was filled to open new streets. Speculative rows, such as the eighteen Italianate houses of Martin Luther Row on Elm Street, sit alongside architect-designed homes, six churches, a former brewery, converted carriage houses and the Art Deco Alfred E. Smith State Office Building. State Street became fashionable because of nearby Washington Park and the new State Capitol, while other streets held working-class dwellings. The district was listed for its varied styles, its mix of high-style and vernacular design, and its record of Albany's nineteenth-century development. Modern gas stations and office buildings are counted as intrusions, and restoration work continues, especially in the northern half.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":"Architects named include William Hodgens, Marcus T. Reynolds, Albert Fuller, Charles G. Odgen, Ernest Hoffman, Alexander Selkirk, Worthington Palmer and Earle L. Kempton; builders include George Martin, James W. Eaton and William Bender (as developer).","architectural_style":"Late Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, High Victorian Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Richardsonian Romanesque, Second Renaissance Revival, Dutch Revival, Georgian Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Building conditions vary from restored and occupied to altered, deteriorated and vacant; the northern half has more rehabilitated structures, and rehabilitation is expanding. The district lists 22 modern intrusions.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.631811-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/80002578.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002578/4ad256cda1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002578/4ad256cda1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"UpstateNYer","credit_html":"UpstateNYer, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AlbanyNewYork.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316189","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_Square/Hudson%E2%80%93Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5059345"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/albany-county/center-square-hudson-park-historic-district-additional-documentation-80002578/"}