{"nrhp_refnum":"84002060","name":"Downtown Cohoes Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Cohoes Music Hall","Silliman Memorial Presbyterian"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Oneida, Van Rensselaer, Columbia, Main, and Olmstead Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cohoes","county":"Albany County","state":"NY","lat":42.772997273000044,"lon":-73.70037188553678,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-09-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 35-acre historic district covering the center of the nineteenth-century city of Cohoes, Albany County, New York, with 165 properties of commercial, residential, civic, religious and industrial use, centered on Remsen and Mohawk Streets.","why_significant":"The district is a dense, largely intact downtown core whose buildings show the full range of architectural styles from 1820 to 1930, especially Italianate and Second Empire. It reflects the growth of Cohoes from early industrial ventures, the 1840s building boom and village incorporation in 1848. Development slowed sharply after the 1930s, so many buildings from the period of prosperity survive.","narrative":"Downtown Cohoes is a 35-acre historic district in Albany County, New York, covering the commercial and civic center of a former mill city. Of its 165 properties, 70 are commercial buildings, 75 are residences, 12 are public buildings including six churches, a train station and city hall, and eight are industrial or utility structures. Remsen Street forms its central axis. Most buildings are two-to-four-story brick structures with bracketed cornices and hood moldings in the Italianate and Second Empire styles. Early survivors include a 1820s duplex on White Street and a Federal house built in 1836 by the carpenter Joshua Clarke. The Cohoes Music Hall and Silliman Memorial Presbyterian Church are individually listed. Growth tied to the first industrial ventures, the enlarged Erie Canal and the 1848 incorporation of the village shaped the street plan. Because building nearly stopped in the 1930s, many prosperous-era buildings survive, giving the district its period of significance of 1820 to 1930.","period_of_significance":"1820-1930","architect_builder":"Richard M. Upjohn (St. John's rectory); Joshua R. Clarke (builder, 112 Mohawk Street); F. S. Claxton (113 Mohawk Street, possibly designed)","architectural_style":"Italianate and Second Empire predominate, with Federal, Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Romanesque Revival, Chateauesque, Beaux-Arts, Neoclassical and Art Moderne examples","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition rated excellent to fair; the district retains substantial integrity, with 151 contributing structures and ten primary non-contributing buildings. Many storefronts are altered, and fire and deterioration have left a few gaps in the streetscape.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.322975-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84002060.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002060/1c98524481-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002060/1c98524481-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Downtown_Cohoes,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316219","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Cohoes_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5303396"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/albany-county/downtown-cohoes-historic-district-84002060/"}