National Register of Historic Places
Albany Felt Company Complex
Menands, Albany County, New York
The record
- Listed
- February 14, 2014
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 1373 Broadway, Menands
- County
- Albany
- State
- New York
- Contributing resources
- 3 buildings, 4 structures, 3 objects
- Coordinates
- 42.67889, -73.73346
- Reference number
- 14000001
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The story
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The Albany Felt Company Complex is an industrial complex at 1373 Broadway in Menands, Albany County, its original mill built in 1902 in the Industrial style with later Colonial Revival and Neoclassical additions. It was listed in the National Register in 2014.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in architecture and industry. Its period of significance runs from 1902, when the mill opened and began making paper felt, to 1954, when an office block was added nearby.
Physical character
Its brick walls rise from concrete and brick foundations under slate and synthetic roofs, with cast iron, steel columns, wood and glass inside. Brick manufacturing wings, pump houses and a stair tower stand near manmade ponds and an ornamental cast-iron fence. Einhorn Yaffee Prescott rehabilitated the administrative wing's interior and added a lobby entrance in 1988, and later renovated its offices in 1994.
Historical context
Albany Felt Company was founded in 1895 and opened the Menands mill in 1902 with about 150 workers, doubling the plant in 1910 and again in 1920. James W. Cox was president until 1918, when Parker Corning succeeded him and led the firm until his death in 1943; Lewis Parker became president in 1945.