Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad: Green Island Shops

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Coordinates: 42°45′2″N 73°41′34″W / 42.75056°N 73.69278°W / 42.75056; -73.69278
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Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad: Green Island Shops
Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad: Green Island Shops is located in New York
Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad: Green Island Shops
Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad: Green Island Shops is located in the United States
Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad: Green Island Shops
LocationJames and Tibbits Streets and the Delaware and Hudson Railroad tracks, Green Island, New York
Coordinates42°45′2″N 73°41′34″W / 42.75056°N 73.69278°W / 42.75056; -73.69278
Area10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built1871 (1871)
NRHP reference No.73001161[1]
Added to NRHPMay 24, 1973

The Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad: Green Island Shops were two historic buildings and one historic structure located at Green Island, Albany County, New York. The buildings were built in 1871 by the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad. They are: the three-story, five-bay, brick car shop building measuring approximately 100 by 300 feet (30 by 91 m); the one-story, semicircular, brick roundhouse; and the 40-foot-tall (12 m) octagonal water tower. The shops remained in operation into the late 1930s.[2]: 6–8 

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]

On March 3, 2011 the structure caught fire. The fire started on the third floor and quickly spread to the first. The building was demolished a few weeks later.[3]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)" (Searchable database). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2015-12-01. Note: This includes Chester H. Liebs (July 1970). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad: Green Island Shops" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-12-01. and Accompanying photographs
  3. ^ Martinez, Cecelia (March 3, 2011). "Fire at R.K. Freedman & Son in Green Island destroys historic building". The Record. Troy. Retrieved 2023-03-14.

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