The Ferris House is a historic house located at 16 Carillon Road in Ticonderoga,

Essex County, New York Essex County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 37,381. Its county seat is the hamlet of Elizabethtown. Its name is from the English county of Essex. Essex is one of only 2 counties that are ...

Description and history

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

–style building with clapboard sheathing and a stone foundation. It features a three-bay-wide, one-story flat-roofed porch with

Doric order The Doric order was one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. The Doric is most easily recognized by the simple circular capitals at the top of col ...

columns. Also on the property are a contributing

carriage house A carriage house, also called a remise or coach house, is an outbuilding which was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and the related tack. In Great Britain the farm building was called a cart shed. These typically were open f ...

and playhouse. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places 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 or "great artistic v ...

on November 15, 1988.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Colonial Revival architecture in New York (state) Houses completed in 1911 Houses in Essex County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Essex County, New York {{EssexCountyNY-NRHP-stub