{"nrhp_refnum":"12001129","name":"Ligonier Point Historic District","other_names":["Clark Quarry &","Farm","Scragwood","Old Elm"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Point Rd., Ligonier Way","address_restricted":false,"city":"Willsboro","county":"Essex County","state":"NY","lat":44.41702625500005,"lon":-73.37091607358693,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2013-01-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Industry"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 79.60-acre historic district on Willsboro Point and the Lake Champlain shore in Willsboro, Essex County, New York, containing two Clark family homesteads (Old Elm and Scragwood), the remains of a limestone quarry and quarry village, and related farm and industrial features developed mainly in the nineteenth century.","why_significant":"The district documents the Clark family's stone quarrying, boat-building, farming and shipping enterprises on Lake Champlain. The main quarry produced Chazy limestone, sometimes called Lake Champlain blue stone, for architectural and engineering uses, employing hundreds of workers at its peak. The surviving homes, farm buildings, quarry remains and lakeshore setting together show how the family business operated. The form's available text does not state the criteria or the formal period of significance.","narrative":"Ligonier Point Historic District occupies 79.60 acres on Willsboro Point, where the Clark family built a stone, boat and farm enterprise along Lake Champlain during the nineteenth century. Two homesteads anchor the district: Old Elm, a Greek Revival house with a Chazy limestone main block and a frame wing later used for a creamery, and Scragwood, a house of several building phases decorated with rustic and Gothic Revival details. Beyond the houses lie the main quarry and two smaller ones, an orchard, and the foundations of the quarry village, including a company store, carpenter's shop and blacksmith's shop. Chazy limestone from here was shipped by barge down the lake and through the canal system. In 1870 about 225 men worked the quarry. Lewis Clark designed the derricks and steam equipment, and S.W. Clark & Company, formed in 1854, managed the business. The district totals 34 contributing and 6 non-contributing resources.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Lewis Clark designed the quarry infrastructure (derricks, overhead railroad, steam equipment); the Clark family developed the properties.","architectural_style":"Mid-Nineteenth Century: Greek Revival; Late Victorian: Gothic Revival; Other: rustic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Old Elm and Scragwood dwellings are largely intact and retain historic interiors; the main quarry is stripped of infrastructure, ringed with trees and about one-tenth flooded; the wharf, company store, workers' dwellings and other quarry village buildings no longer survive. Current functions include single dwellings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.219045-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/12001129.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12001129/ce4afe855c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12001129/ce4afe855c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"Mwanner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scragwood,_Ligonier_Point,_Willsboro,_New_York.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317789","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligonier_Point_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23091878"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/essex-county/ligonier-point-historic-district-12001129/"}