Montcalm Park Historic District

Montcalm Park Historic District occupies the west bank of the Oswego River in Oswego, New York. It is organized around a two-acre triangular park, landscaped and dedicated in 1913, with concrete walkways, ornamental trees and an iron fence. A boulder with a bronze plaque marks the approximate site of Fort George, a British earthwork of 1755 destroyed by French forces in 1756. Around the park stand roughly 25 houses dating from about 1840 to about 1940. Early landmarks include the 1847 Myron Pardee House, an Italianate design by New York architect William Ranlett, and the 1848 Luther Wright House, a brick Italianate house by Oswego architect Zina D. Stevens. Later buildings show Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Arts and Crafts, American Foursquare and Colonial Revival styles. The district was listed because it records Oswego's residential growth during a period of industrial expansion, and because the park and the varied, well-preserved houses, garages, fences and sidewalks form a cohesive pre-World War II neighborhood.