{"nrhp_refnum":"71000532","name":"Kent-Delord House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"17 Cumberland Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Plattsburgh","county":"Clinton County","state":"NY","lat":44.703343518000054,"lon":-73.45180475299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-02-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood-frame clapboard house at 17 Cumberland Avenue in Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York, built in 1797 for Captain John Bailey and now operated as a museum.","why_significant":"The house is reputedly the oldest in Plattsburgh and was built for an early northern New York settler. It was later owned by James Kent, author of Kent's Commentaries on American Law, and by Henry Delord, a leading local citizen. British officers used it as headquarters during the 1814 Battle of Plattsburgh.","narrative":"Built in 1797 at 17 Cumberland Avenue in Plattsburgh, this two-story clapboard house on a wood frame was the home of Captain John Bailey, an early settler in northern New York. His cousin Nathan Averill, Sr., an early Plattsburgh settler, was the builder. The house is reputedly the oldest in the city. It has a five-bay south facade, a gabled roof, brick chimneys at each end and a pedimented one-story entrance porch. Bailey's daughter Elizabeth inherited it and married James Kent, who became Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court and wrote Kent's Commentaries on American Law. In 1810 the Kents sold the house to Henry Delord, a native of Nimes, France, and a leading local citizen. British officers occupied it as headquarters during the 1814 Battle of Plattsburgh. It later passed to the Physicians Hospital and then to William H. Miner, who established it as a museum. It remains in excellent, unaltered condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Built by Nathan Averill, Sr., a cousin of the Baileys","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and unaltered, on its original site; in use as a museum with restricted public access and an admission fee.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.668581-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/71000532.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000532/d1dff46899-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000532/d1dff46899-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Akuchling","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Right-side_view_of_Kent-Delord_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Akuchling</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Right-side_view_of_Kent-Delord_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316931","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent-Delord_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6391578"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/clinton-county/kent-delord-house-71000532/"}