{"nrhp_refnum":"88001445","name":"Clinton Avenue Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Palace Theatre"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Along Clinton Ave. from Quail to N. Pearl Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Albany","county":"Albany County","state":"NY","lat":42.66177720500005,"lon":-73.75798780200606,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-09-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in Albany, New York, centered on Clinton Avenue between North Pearl and Quail streets, with parts of North Pearl Street, Lark Street, Elk Street, Lexington Avenue and First Street. It contains 576 buildings, mostly brick rowhouses built from about 1830 to the end of the 19th century.","why_significant":"The district holds the greatest concentration of speculative middle-class brick rowhousing built in northern Albany between c1830 and 1900. Its blockfaces remain nearly unbroken rows of nineteenth-century buildings, which gives it strong architectural unity despite scattered demolition. It also includes the city's most important surviving historic theater and reflects the boom-town growth of the avenue.","narrative":"Clinton Avenue Historic District occupies a long, spine-like area just north of downtown Albany, following Clinton Avenue from North Pearl Street west to Quail Street. Along with parts of North Pearl, Lark, Elk, Lexington and First streets, it holds 576 buildings, all but twenty of which contribute to its character. Most are two- or three-story attached masonry townhouses with projecting stoops, built speculatively for middle-class residents between about 1830 and 1900. Italianate details such as bracketed cornices and iron hoods are common, and Queen Anne touches appear on later rows. The oldest surviving building is probably 3 Clinton Place, dating from 1833. Churches, schools, a former police station and the Palace Theatre add institutional variety. Demolition in the 1960s and 1970s left gaps in the eastern part, yet most blockfaces remain nearly unbroken rows of nineteenth-century houses. The district was listed because it preserves the largest surviving concentration of this rowhouse building type in northern Albany.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate, Queen Anne, Georgian Revival and other nineteenth-century rowhouse styles","criteria":[],"status_note":"Of 576 buildings, only twenty are non-contributing. Some areas have open space from 1960s and 1970s demolition, and some buildings have modern siding.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.283953-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88001445.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001445/e7b56d7c1b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001445/e7b56d7c1b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_on_Clinton_Avenue,_Albany,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Houses_on_Clinton_Avenue,_Albany,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316197","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Avenue_Historic_District_(Albany,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1101651"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/albany-county/clinton-avenue-historic-district-88001445/"}