The Rapp Road Community Historic District is located in the Pine Bush area of Albany, New York.

[2][1] Rapp Road is located in the long, narrow western protrusion of Albany known as the Pine Bush.

The portion of the street on which the district is located lies between Pine Lane and the South Frontage Road of Washington Avenue Extension.

Wooded lands on the east and west serve as a buffer between the historic district and the mall and various other commercial and office developments in those directions.

It is isolated from any other residential neighborhoods by Interstates 87 and 90, both part of the New York State Thruway, to the north and east.

The district is formed by the 27 lots that remain of the two original purchases that created the neighborhood, on both sides of the road.

In four trips to Mississippi, Parson encouraged friends and family to move to Albany and join his church.

They were among the nearly 1.5 million African Americans who left the South during what has been called the first wave of the Great Migration, going to northern and midwestern industrial cities for more opportunities and to escape violence against them.

[2] Between 1930 and 1933, Parson found two 14-acre (5.7 ha) parcels of undeveloped land west of Albany in the Pine Bush as a site for his community.

The community remained intact until 1971, when the state planned the Washington Avenue Extension to improve connections between Albany and its growing western suburbs.

[4] In 2006 the state Department of Education chartered the Rapp Road Historical Association, which has formed to preserve and interpret the history of the area.