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"This is situated a short distance south-easterly from the city of Troy, and consists of a building 50 feet by 200, built of brick, two stories high.  A farm of 152 acres is connected with the house, upon which the male paupers are employed, so far as they are able, and which yields a revenue of $2,000 a year. 

The house affords twenty-one large and fifteen small rooms for the use of paupers, which are heated by stoves, but entirely destitute of any means for ventilation.  There is a small bathing establishment which, from appearance, seemed to have gone into disrepute.  One hundred and thirty-three inmates were found in the house, sixty-seven males and sixty-six females, seven-eighths of whom are foreign and one-eighth native born, including fifty children under sixteen years of age."        

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List of Residents of the Troy Poorhouse from the 1880 Census (On the Genealogy Homepage website of Pat Connors) 

List of Residents of the Troy Poorhouse from the 1855 Census