As an effective racial ghetto, the neighborhood and its historic buildings suffered the effects of disinvestment and decline. As the 20th century began, it gradually became a more middle-class neighborhood, then, after the Great Migration, predominantly African American. Its fortunes began to slip as the city expanded westward to new neighborhoods like Washington Park which attracted the city's affluent. It was one of the first neighborhoods to develop north of the city's downtown as it grew during the 19th century. It lent its name to the Ten Broeck Triangle, established in the middle of the following century when successful businessmen, primarily lumber dealers, built large houses along Ten Broeck Avenue with the fortunes they had made from trade on the Erie Canal. The future district was first established by its oldest contributing property, the Ten Broeck Mansion, built at the end of the 18th century by a prominent local family.
Four years later, the district was increased to its current size and renamed to reflect its expansion to include some of the rest of Arbor Hill. In 1979 its easternmost third, the Ten Broeck Triangle, the second oldest residential neighborhood in the city, was recognized as a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Arbor Hill Historic District–Ten Broeck Triangle, originally the Ten Broeck Historic District, is a seven- block area located within the Arbor Hill neighborhood north of what is today downtown Albany, New York, United States. Greek Revival, Italianate, Late Victorian
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