Article: TROY STREET IS SECOND TO NONE FOR A CLINIC IN ARCHITECTURE, STROLL ALONG THIS CITY BLOCK.(Living)

Byline: Irene Gardner Keeney Staff writer

This city is famous for its collars, its stoves and its horseshoe nails. But there's something else the Collar City has that is unrivaled anywhere in the country - Second Street. It is the greatest 19th-century street in America because of the variety of the architectural style of its buildings.

So says Thomas Phelan, dean of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Phelan also teaches a course at RPI on 19th-century Troy and its role during the Industrial Revolution.

The Industrial Revolution is responsible for most of Troy's elegant old homes. Newly prosperous ...

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