Elkanah Watson House

Elkanah Watson House

Infobox_nrhp | name = Elkanah Watson House
nrhp_type = nhl
locmapin = New York


caption =
location= Port Kent, New York
lat_degrees = 44 | lat_minutes = 31 | lat_seconds = 29.81 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 73 | long_minutes = 24 | long_seconds = 21.12 | long_direction = W
area =
built =1828
architect= Sheldon & Merritt
architecture=
designated= July 19, 1964 cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=371&ResourceType=Building
title=Elkanah Watson House|date=2007-09-11|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = October 15, 1966 cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=66000518

Elkanah Watson House is a National Historic Landmark located in Port Kent, New York. It is a formal home overlooking Lake Champlain that was designed by Sheldon & Merritt and constructed under the supervision of Charles Watson to be the home of his father, Elkanah Watson, Revolutionary-era diplomat, founder of the county fair and early promoter of canals, who occupied it in May, 1828. It was later the home of another of Elkanah's sons, Winslow C. Watson, a historian who completed Elkanah's autobiography.

It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000518.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory: Elkanah Watson House] |237 KB|author=Richard Greenwood and Cecil McKithan|date=December, 1977|publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/66000518.pdf "Accompanying Photos, exterior, from 1963 and 1975"] |1.04 MB]

The house is located on the southwest corner of Lake Street and South Street in Port Kent.

References

External links

* "A Neat Plain Modern Stile: Philip Hooker and His Contemporaries: 1796-1836", University of Massachusetts Press ISBN 0-87023-768-3 (a history and art exhibition). Mary Raddant Tomlin, ed. (Excerpt at [http://books.google.com/books?id=jzM8wF0vWdQC&pg=PA220&lpg=PA220&dq=elkanah+watson+house+port+kent&source=web&ots=yfT5Ajn-C5&sig=GY0fXlKzlTzPAcoBZZlQo3EpE-c#PPA168,M1 Google books version accessed August 2007.] )
* [http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc13294.htm Elkanah Watson Papers, at New York State Library]


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