Cohoes Music Hall
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Music Hall
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Main entrance to Music Hall, 2008
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| Location | Cohoes, NY |
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| Coordinates | 42°46′32″N 73°42′06″W / 42.77556°N 73.70167°WCoordinates: 42°46′32″N 73°42′06″W / 42.77556°N 73.70167°W |
| Built | 1874 |
| Architectural style | Second Empire |
| NRHP Reference # | 71000527 |
| Added to NRHP | 1971 |
Cohoes Music Hall, is a vintage music hall located at 58 Remsen Street in Cohoes, New York, United States. It is a four-story brick building in the Second Empire architectural style. Built in 1874, it is considered the best example of that style in the city, with an unusually decorative front facade.
In 1971 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Thirteen years later, when the Downtown Cohoes Historic District was added to the Register, the Music Hall was listed as a contributing property. After a restoration it began putting on performances again in the 1970s. It is the fourth-oldest music hall currently in use in the country, and also serves as the city's visitor center.
The Music Hall is nine bays wide by six deep. It is made of brick with alternating courses of limestone, a material also used for the hooded trim on the windows. The mansard roof found on many Second Empire buildings is pierced by several decorative corbeled brick chimneys. Below it is a bracketed cornice. The east (front) facade is faced in green marble at street level, making it unusually decorative for a Second Empire building and one of the most ornate in Cohoes.
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