Amherst Avenue Historic District

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.