{"nrhp_refnum":"68000033","name":"Fort Crown Point","other_names":["Fort Amherst","Fort St. Frederic"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Crown Point Reservation, SW of Lake Champlain Bridge and NY 8","address_restricted":false,"city":"Crown Point","county":"Essex County","state":"NY","lat":44.023033592000075,"lon":-73.43120475984739,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1968-11-24","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1968-11-24","areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Fort Crown Point (also called Amherst) is a ruined 18th-century British military fort on a point jutting into Lake Champlain at Crown Point, Essex County, New York, begun in 1760. The site also includes the ruins of the earlier French Fort St. Frederic.","why_significant":"The nomination calls the fort, in its ruined but unaltered state, probably the finest surviving architectural and archeological specimen in the United States of 18th-century military engineering. It was built on the system of the French engineer Vauban and later figured in the American Revolution. Together with Fort St. Frederic it forms a major site of the struggle for North America.","narrative":"Fort Crown Point is a large ruined British fortress on Lake Champlain in Crown Point, New York. Construction began in 1760, after General Amherst forced the French to give up nearby Fort St. Frederic, which they had built in 1731. The five-sided fort was about three times the size of Fort Ticonderoga and enclosed a 6 1/2-acre parade ground. Its design follows the system of the French engineer Vauban, with a deep dry moat cut from limestone, ramparts 25 feet thick, and five large bastions. A fire and powder magazine explosion in 1773 damaged the fort, and it was never rebuilt. It changed hands during the Revolution, serving as a staging area and supply depot. The ruins of two of three stone barracks survive, and the setting is largely unchanged. New York acquired the land about 1900. It is now a state reservation with a museum and is open to visitors. It was recognized as an outstanding surviving example of 18th-century military engineering.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Built by British troops under General Sir Jeffery Amherst's command; design based on the fortification system of Marquis de Vauban","architectural_style":"Colonial military architecture (18th-century fortification)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Stabilized ruins in excellent condition, administered as the Crown Point State Reservation with a museum, open to visitors.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.8221-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/68000033_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/68000033/6579632eaf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/68000033/6579632eaf-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Daniel M. Horowitz","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_Crown_Point_New_York.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel M. Horowitz</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_Crown_Point_New_York.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315754","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Crown_Point","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1438494"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/essex-county/fort-crown-point-68000033/"}