Hollwood on the Hudson takes you around downtown Troy -- “this wonderful gem of a city” according to Martin Scorsese’s visual research consultant -- to see the places Martin Scorsese, Merchant & Ivory, and Hector Babenco used when filming these major Hollywood films:

• The Age of Innocence (1993). Directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder.
• Ironweed (1987). Directed by Hector Babenco, starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.
• The Bostonians (1984). Directed by James Ivory, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Madeleine Potter.

 

The Burden Ironworks Museum takes you inside the handsome brick structure that was once the office building for one of the most important firms in the history of iron and steel. Now the headquarters of the Gateway, you’ll see items in the collection such as:

• the Arms Dividing Engine
• (etc.)
• (etc.)

 

Troy’s Tiffany Treasures takes into the library and churches to see Tiffany windows depicting religious, historic and pastoral themes.

(Tiffany Window

picture here)