{"nrhp_refnum":"75001191","name":"Cornwall Brothers' Store","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2 Howell Pl.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Alexandria Bay","county":"Jefferson County","state":"NY","lat":44.33805276100003,"lon":-75.91952047399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-05-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Transportation","Politics/Government","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story coursed rubble stone store at 2 Howell Place in Alexandria Bay, Jefferson County, New York, built in 1866 for the firm of Cornwall and Walton and enlarged in 1888.","why_significant":"The store was a commercial and social center of Alexandria Bay, serving first the timber and steamboat trade and later the Victorian summer resort economy. The Cornwall family used its economic power to gain political influence in the village. The building has outlasted the large resort hotels and other Gilded Era structures around it.","narrative":"Cornwall Brothers' Store is a stone commercial building on Howell Place in Alexandria Bay, New York. Andrew Cornwall, Sr., and John Walton built it in 1866 of coursed rubble after an earlier wooden store burned. It first served the timber and wood-fuel trade for river steamers, then adapted to the growing summer resort economy of the Thousand Islands. Four Cornwall brothers took over in 1877, and in 1888 a twenty-foot addition with glass display windows was built on the street side, giving it a late Victorian false-front look. The store also sold steamship and railroad tickets and reportedly acted as a bank for island estate servants. The family's commercial strength carried into village politics, with several members serving as village president. The store outlasted the large resort hotels that once surrounded it. Its interiors were largely lost to fires and later uses, and it was unoccupied when nominated, with local interest in restoring it as a crafts center.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":"Andrew Cornwall, Sr., and John Walton (built 1866); J. B. Reid (1888 addition)","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as abandoned and unoccupied at the time of nomination; the village was interested in restoring it as a crafts center. Later uses included post office, immigration and customs offices, and Coast Guard offices.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.947762-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/75001191.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001191/5082acf008-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001191/5082acf008-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CORNWALL_BROTHERS%27_STORE.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</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:CORNWALL_BROTHERS%27_STORE.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318222","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall_Brothers%27_Store","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5171951"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/jefferson-county/cornwall-brothers-store-75001191/"}