Talk:Ticonderoga, New York

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[edit] Fort Ticonderoga and Pell family summer home, NRHP structures

Buildings of NRHP National Significance in Ticonderoga, NY, and not mentioned or listed on the main page of this entry:

1. Fort Ticonderoga - Original construction 1755 under Franco-Canadian and French direction. Subsequent additions and changes made under British occupation, 1759-1775, and further under American occupation, 1775-1781. Garrison grounds granted to Columbia & Union Colleges after the American Revolution. Sold by Columbia & Union Colleges in 1820 to William Ferris Pell, a merchant prince of New York City. Restoration commenced 1909 by his great-grandson Stephen Hyatt Pelham Pell, with the contributions of wife Sarah Gibbs Thompson Pell and her father, the industrialist (American Nickel Corporation) and president of the United States Navy League and United States Olympic Committee, Colonel Robert Means Thompson, and work carried forth by their descendants ever since. The earliest US example of historic preservation with a pedigree with direct Pell family ties to the formal, government-sponsored restoration of French historic monuments in the first quarters of the 19th century under Prosper Merrimee and Eugene Viollet-le-Duc. A National Historic Landmark.

2. Pell Family summer home - Known as "Beaumont" when built below Fort Ticonderoga's walls in 1820-26 as the classical revival country seat of William Ferris Pell and then known as "The Pavilion" when partially leased as a hotel after 1839 upon the death by exploding cannon of Archibald Morris Pell, son of the builder. Interiors, 1962, for Mr. and Mrs. John Howland Gibbs Pell by Sister Parrish and now (2008)the only complete extant example of Parrish's work from the period when she was also redecorating the Kennedy White House. National Register of Historic Places and a contributing structure in support of Fort Ticonderoga's designation as a National Historic Landmark.