{"nrhp_refnum":"89000473","name":"Amherst Avenue Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"322--340 Amherst Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ticonderoga","county":"Essex County","state":"NY","lat":43.84401874100004,"lon":-73.42554695857748,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-06-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small residential historic district on Amherst Avenue in the village of Ticonderoga, Essex County, New York, made up of ten houses and six garages built in 1921-1923 by local builder William A. Gale for the Ticonderoga Pulp and Paper Company.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be architecturally significant as a well-preserved enclave of company-sponsored workers' housing, reflecting the last phase of that house type and national trends in corporate housing and residential planning. It combines Craftsman-influenced Bungalow and four-square forms with Colonial Revival details. It is one of two intact housing developments the company built for mill employees.","narrative":"Amherst Avenue in Ticonderoga's village center holds a compact group of ten houses and six garages built between 1921 and 1923. Local builder William A. Gale constructed them for the Ticonderoga Pulp and Paper Company, which rented them to mill management. The wood-frame houses share shingle and clapboard siding, front porches and tripartite windows. Four show Bungalow influence, with sloping roofs over recessed porches, wide eaves and triangular brackets. Four are hip-roofed four squares, and Doric porch columns and gable returns add Colonial Revival touches. The street was listed for its architecture and for what it shows about company-sponsored workers' housing in the early twentieth century, when the firm built modern homes while larger paper companies faced labor strife. International Paper bought the company in 1925 and began selling the houses to tenants in the late 1940s. The district remains largely unchanged and is still residential, with 16 contributing and three noncontributing buildings on about 3.5 acres.","period_of_significance":"1921-1923","architect_builder":"W.A. Gale (Builder)","architectural_style":"Bungalow, Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The form describes the district as virtually unchanged since construction, with all properties still in single-dwelling residential use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.198348-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/89000473.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000473/2937da07af-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000473/2937da07af-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TiconderogaNY_AmherstAvenueHD_2.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_AmherstAvenueHD_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312837","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amherst_Avenue_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4746013"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/essex-county/amherst-avenue-historic-district-89000473/"}