Burden Ironworks Office Building
historic commercial building in New York, United States
Burden Ironworks Office Building is a historic office building located in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York. It was built about 1880 and is a one-story, brick building laid out in a cruciform plan. It features gabled and hipped roofs and a central octagonal cupola and onion dome.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
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Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No.
“Burden Ironworks Office Building” enters the record as historic commercial building in New York, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Burden, Ironworks and Office can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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