Lake George Avenue Historic District

Lake George Avenue Historic District is a small residential neighborhood in Ticonderoga, New York, overlooking the LaChute River. It includes twelve houses and eight garages built between 1919 and 1921 by the Ticonderoga Pulp and Paper Company under local builder William A. Gale, originally to be rented to mill management. The wood-frame homes share clapboard and shingle siding, long sloping roofs over recessed porches, grouped windows, bracketed eaves and some Colonial Revival detailing. Gale used two standard plans, a rectangle and an L-shape, and varied the ready-made details on each house. Two older houses from the 1890s are within the boundary but do not contribute. The district is significant as a well-preserved example of company-sponsored workers' housing from the final phase of that tradition, and it relates closely to the Amherst Avenue district by the same builder. After the mills were demolished in the early 1970s, these homes remained as rare reminders of the local paper industry.