I recently made a stop in Troy New York where a majority of season one of HBO’s gilded age was filmed. Troy has a large collection of period appropriate buildings that stretch multiple blocks making it a good fill in for 19th Century New York. Troy made a lot of money during the Industrial Revolution and was once called the White Collar city because it manufactured white shirt collars. I wanted to take a walk around where the show was filmed. Most of these buildings predate the gilded age, I’ll

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