Cannon Building (Troy, New York)

The Cannon Building is the oldest building on Monument Square in Troy, New York and is on Broadway between First Street and State Street. It was designed by Alexander Jackson Davis and built in 1835. The multi-storey building was registered on 5 March 1970 in the National Register of Historic Places and is a contributing property to the Central Troy Historic District, which was added to the register in 1986.

Davis, who collaborated in the design of the building with Ithiel Town, used the then popular classicism and thus created one of the few larger commercial buildings of the period in this style, which survived until our days. After two fires in the years after the American Civil War the building a mansard roof was added, which corresponded to the architectural style of the Second Empire. Thus, an unusual combination was created. The building used in the present as retail and office building, the upper floors have been converted into an apartment - hotel.

Building and history

The Cannon Building is a five-story building with 22 Jochen in length and five in width. It is built of load-bearing brick walls, beams inside are made ​​of wood. At the top floor with a projecting cornice is a developed mansard roof with bay windows.

Originally the house was only four stories. During the renovation in 1870, the mansard roof was added. The eastern shop fronts are in original condition. Towards the end of the 19th century was in the building Frear 's Troy Bazaar, then one of the best retail stores in the city. For the future users were a manufacturer of pianos and a jeweler.

Beginning of the 21st century sought the film producer and Bauinvestor Sandy Horowitz for ways to write off profits from the sale of real estate in New York City and a maker brought him to Troy, where he bought the Cannon Building and some other property on Monument Square. He had the top three Stöckwerke in thirty residential units umbauen.Diese serve as a hotel for extended stays home, which is used primarily by visiting professors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Russell Sage College, as it is within walking distance of the two bodies. As part of the renovation is also a spa and an internet café were on the ground floor.