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Photographer: Wikipedia
Caption: Troy After the Great Fire
Additional Description: Among the structures lost were the Troy Union Depot with its huge train shed, which had been built in 1854, seen here with the arched top walls propped up against collapse. During the fire many people brought their belongings there for safekeeping under the notion that it was fireproof. More than 30 pianos and many other personal items were destoryed there.
Also lost were the Sixth-street Presbyterian Church, the Fifth-street Baptist Church, the Scotch Presbyterian Church, the Methodist Free Chapel, the Troy Orphan Asylum, the Children's Asylum, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (which had not yet moved up the hill), the Troy Academy, Mrs. Warren's Female Charity School, the Union House hotel, the Washington Hall hotel, the Fulton House hotel and Troy City Bank, as well as the W. & L.E. Gurley company and the Sheldon & Greene stove works. Among the dead were "Dr. Carey, physician; Ransom Haight, merchant; Mrs. Dunlap and child, aged 20 months; Mrs. Catharine Murray; Mr. O'Donnell, a blind man; a child named Dooley."
Submitted: July 29, 2012, by Howard C. Ohlhous of Duanesburg, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p213693
File Size: 1.251 Megabytes

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