{"nrhp_refnum":"98000453","name":"Mullany, Kate, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"350 8th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Troy","county":"Rensselaer County","state":"NY","lat":42.740072129000055,"lon":-73.68123973159734,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-04-01","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1998-04-01","areas_of_significance":["Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick Italianate row house at 350 Eighth Street in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, the southern half of a twin double house, completed by 1869 as an income-producing property for the Mullany family.","why_significant":"It is the only remaining structure associated with Kate Mullany during her years as a labor leader. She was the Irish immigrant laundry worker who organized the all-female Collar Laundry Union in Troy in 1864. The union is described as the first continuously organized women's trade union in the nation, and Mullany became the first woman appointed to a national labor union office. The house reflects the stability and upward mobility that union activity made possible for workers.","narrative":"This three-story brick row house at 350 Eighth Street in Troy, New York, is the southern half of an identical double house with an ornate brick cornice of alternating long and short dentils. It was built as income property, with one apartment per floor, and the owning family lived in the larger top unit. Bridget Mullany bought the lots in 1864, and the family was in residence by 1869. Her daughter Kate Mullany, an Irish-born laundry worker, organized the all-female Collar Laundry Union in February 1864 to protest low wages and punishing working conditions. The union grew to about 500 members and won a 25% wage increase. In 1868 the National Labor Union appointed her special assistant secretary, the first woman named to a national labor union office. Her earlier homes and the union cooperative building have been demolished, so this house is the only surviving structure tied to her years of labor leadership. It remains an apartment building with a largely unchanged exterior and floor plan.","period_of_significance":"1869-1906","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"Still used as a multiple dwelling (three apartments). The exterior is largely original, and the interior finishes were replaced in renovations in the early 1960s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.077113-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/98000453_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000453/a3dde449b2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000453/a3dde449b2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kate_Mullany_House_oblique_view.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:Kate_Mullany_House_oblique_view.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316036","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Mullany_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6375677"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rensselaer-county/mullany-kate-house-98000453/"}