Northern River Street Historic District

Along one block of River Street in Troy, beside the Hudson River, stand thirteen brick commercial and industrial buildings dating from about 1840 to 1910. River Street was long the city's main focus of warehousing, trade and manufacturing, and this northern stretch became a center of Troy's collar, cuff and shirt industries. The west side holds the most prominent buildings, including a Greek Revival warehouse row from the 1840s and 1850s and two five-story factory buildings from 1884 and 1892 linked to the Curtis collar firm. A former theater was rebuilt in 1908 with a Dutch Revival facade. The east side has three-story warehouse-and-storefront buildings from about 1885 and smaller buildings with pressed metal cornices and oriel windows. The district was cut off from the rest of the downtown by a railroad line and by urban renewal demolition from 1968 to 1974. It was listed because it preserves a cohesive, highly intact record of Troy's nineteenth-century river commerce and textile manufacturing.