12.09.24 - Troy’s Historic Lion Factory digs deep underground to save energy, money
The Lion Factory is a historic property in the Lansingburgh neighborhood that was once one of the most important garment factories in the post-Civil War era in a municipality that earned the nickname the Collar City.
The hulking 133,000-square-foot symbol of Gilded Age textile manufacturing was built in 1884, and once housed hundreds of workers, most of them women, who made men’s shirts and detachable collars for the United Shirt and Collar Co.