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Cohoes City Hall is located at 97 Mohawk Street in the city of Cohoes, New York, United States. It combines elements of the Chateauesque and Romanesque Revival architectural styles popular when it was built in 1896. J.C. Fuller, the Kansas state architect at the time, was chosen for his experience in designing public buildings. [1]
Enlarged Erie Canal Historic District is a discontiguous national historic district located in the City of Cohoes in Albany County, New York. It includes two contributing buildings and 10 contributing structures. [2] It encompasses resources associated with the Enlarged Erie Canal, 1835–1862, Locks 9 through 18. The district includes five ...
Cohoes was linked to the larger settlements of Lansingburg and Albany. In 1795 the first bridge across the Mohawk River was constructed at Cohoes. It was 900 feet long, 24 feet wide, 15 feet high, and was based on 13 stone piers. It cost $12,000 to build and was a toll bridge. This bridge provided access to Cohoes as one of the main routes ...
The Olmstead Street Historic District is located along two blocks of that street in Cohoes, New York, United States.It is a microcosm of the city's economy at its peak in the mid- to late 19th century, consisting of a former textile mill complex, a filled-in section of the original Erie Canal, and three long blocks of row houses built for the millworkers.
2-4 White Street, an 1820s Federal style frame house, is one of the few pre-industrial buildings in the district and among the oldest houses in Cohoes. [1] Van Auken House, 115 Mohawk Street. This was the home of textile executive David Van Auken, a brick Second Empire home with exceptional Eastlake detail, a touch rare in Cohoes, built in 1873 ...
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Mill No. 1 was built on a hill overlooking Cohoes on the south bank of the Mohawk River. [7] It cost $72,000 to build and had 3,000 spindles. [7] In its first year of operation, mill workers produced 1.5 million yards of print cloth. [7] The company also constructed three brick tenements to house its workers, which cost $300 each to build. [7]
Matton Shipyard is a historic shipyard and canal boat service yard located on Van Schaick Island at Cohoes in Albany County, New York.It consists of eight extant buildings, various surviving features, and archaeological remains dating to the period 1916 to 1983 when the site functioned as a shipyard, repair facility, and towboat operation on the New York State Barge Canal and Champlain Canal.