Washington
Park, Troy, NY: Its Evolution and History
by
Jeanne M. Keefe
Russell Sage College, Honors Thesis
1980
Once elegant row houses surround
Washington Park in Troy, New York. Similar to Gramercy Park
in NYC, Washington Park was laid out and surrounded in fence
by . What started as land speculation is now one of only two
privately owned urban ornamental parks remaining in the United
States.
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Washington Place, facing east
from No.1 to No.10 and facing west from No. 10 to No. 1.
View along
the west side of Second Street and looking east on Washington
St. to St. Mary's Church