 The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 13, 1976.In 1887, a group of local educators and prominent citizens of Troy joined together to acquire a state normal school (teacher training school) for Troy.Thanks mostly to the efforts of Ariosto A. Wiley, a powerful state senator who was born in Troy, the city won the education prize over Lowndesboro, Alabama, which had also wanted a normal school.