{"nrhp_refnum":"88002205","name":"PAD Factory, The","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"109 Lake George Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ticonderoga","county":"Essex County","state":"NY","lat":43.848091115000045,"lon":-73.42705724899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick industrial building at 109 Lake George Avenue in the village of Ticonderoga, Essex County, New York, built in 1893 by local builder S.B. Remington as a blank book factory.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is Ticonderoga's only intact masonry mill building, recalling the village's late nineteenth-century industrial peak along the LaChute River. It is a representative example of the simply ornamented masonry industrial buildings tied to the pulp and paper industry. Its exterior retains original windows, segmental arches and a decorative brick cornice.","narrative":"Built in 1893 by local builder S.B. Remington, this three-story brick building at 109 Lake George Avenue in Ticonderoga was constructed as a blank book factory. It has a fieldstone foundation, a low-pitched gable roof, twelve-over-twelve wood sash windows under segmental brick arches, and a decorative brick cornice. The first company to occupy it, the Liebenroth Van Auw Blank Book Company, drove a smaller competitor out of town, but it failed by about 1900. Later the building served as a temporary school in 1906, a printing shop, and a shirt factory, then sat empty until a Christmas Club bought it in 1948 and again made blank books. It was bought in 1981 for commercial and residential use, with the interior divided into rental spaces. It was listed because it is the only intact masonry mill building left in Ticonderoga, where paper mills once lined the LaChute River and were later demolished.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; builder S.B. Remington","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Now used as a fitness center/restaurant and commercial space on the first floor with apartments above; condition listed as fair.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.618578-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002205.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002205/e3f33babba-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002205/e3f33babba-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TiconderogaNY_PadFactory.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Magicpiano</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:TiconderogaNY_PadFactory.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312876","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pad_Factory","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7123174"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/essex-county/pad-factory-the-88002205/"}