Central Troy Historic District (Boundary Increase)

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.