Clayton H. Delano House

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Clayton H. Delano House
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Location25 Father Jogues Pl.,
Ticonderoga, New York
Coordinates 43°50′50″N73°25′37″W / 43.84722°N 73.42694°W / 43.84722; -73.42694 Coordinates: 43°50′50″N73°25′37″W / 43.84722°N 73.42694°W / 43.84722; -73.42694
Arealess than one acre
Built1857
Architectural style Queen Anne
MPS Ticonderoga MRA
NRHP reference # 88002195 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 15, 1988

The Clayton H. Delano House is a historic house located at 25 Father Jogues Place in Ticonderoga, Essex County, New York.

Ticonderoga, New York Town in New York, United States

Ticonderoga is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 5,042 at the 2010 census. The name comes from the Mohawk tekontaró:ken, meaning "it is at the junction of two waterways".

Essex County, New York County in New York

Essex County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 39,370. Its county seat is the hamlet of Elizabethtown. Its name is from the English county of Essex. Along with Hamilton County, Essex is entirely within the Adirondack Park.

Description and history

The home was built in 1857 in the Italianate style, and was remodeled and enlarged between 1884 and 1891 in the Queen Anne style. It is an irregularly massed, 2 12-story, slate-roofed clapboard-sheathed house with a 3-story square tower with a pyramidal hipped roof. It has a 1 12-story shed-roofed wing. A sunflower motif appears on the exterior and interior. Also on the property is a carriage barn built in about 1890. [2]

Italianate architecture 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture

The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture.

Queen Anne style architecture in the United States architectural style during Victorian Era

In the United States, Queen Anne-style architecture was popular from roughly 1880 to 1910. "Queen Anne" was one of a number of popular architectural styles to emerge during the Victorian era. Within the Victorian era timeline, Queen Anne style followed the Stick style and preceded the Richardsonian Romanesque and Shingle styles.

Slate A fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, weakly metamorphic rock

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. Foliation may not correspond to the original sedimentary layering, but instead is in planes perpendicular to the direction of metamorphic compression.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 1988. [1]

National Register of Historic Places Federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Bonnie Wilkinson (May 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Clayton H. Delano House". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . Retrieved 2010-06-26.