Union Avenue Historic District is a

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. It was listed on the U.S.

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in 1978. It includes at least the Congress Park portion of the

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, a U.S.

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. Union Avenue, which is part of

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, includes a number of stately Victorian homes built in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as buildings owned by Empire State College, some of which were once Skidmore College Buildings. Both the

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and

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are located on Union Avenue. an
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{{National Register of Historic Places in New York Saratoga Springs, New York Queen Anne architecture in New York (state) Gothic Revival architecture in New York (state) Colonial Revival architecture in New York (state) Historic districts in Saratoga County, New York Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Saratoga County, New York

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