Old Stone Barracks

Old Stone Barracks
Sunset looking west at the 1838 "Old Stone Barracks" at Plattsburgh, New York. Photographed September 25, 2008
Old Stone Barracks is located in New York
Old Stone Barracks
Old Stone Barracks is located in the United States
Old Stone Barracks
LocationPlattsburgh, New York
Coordinates44°40′51″N 73°26′42″W / 44.68083°N 73.44500°W / 44.68083; -73.44500
Built1838
NRHP reference No.71000533[1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 18, 1971
The Barracks as viewed from the parade ground. The surviving brick powder magazine from the same era and the "old post cemetery" beyond can be seen just to the right.

The "Old Stone Barracks" is the last remaining structure of a proposed quadrangle of early U.S. Army barracks built at Plattsburgh, New York in 1838. Of the four main buildings initially planned for the Plattsburgh post, only two were ever constructed, an officer's barracks and an enlisted barracks which formed an "L" shape. The buildings were utilized by the Army for nearly a century. The officer's quarters, in which Lt. Ulysses S. Grant once stayed, was torn down by the U.S. Air Force during the winter of 1963. The remaining building, the 200-foot (61 m) long, two story "Old Stone Barracks," remained mostly empty after the early 1960s and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. In December 2010 the Barracks and more than 7 acres of property was offered to a Canadian real estate developer for $35,000 with the intention of building an apartment complex on the historic site. At the time, the Barracks property was appraised at over $775,000 and the sale sparked public outcry for its preservation.[2] In 2014, the building was again sold to current owners Terry Schmaltz and Mary Theresa Pearl who redeveloped it as the home of the "Valcour Brewing Company." The new craft brewery opened in 2016.[3]

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ Press Republican, Feb. 20th 2010, Local Historical Community Fights to Preserve Stone Barracks
  3. ^ Press Republican, Jan. 3, 2016, Valcour Brewing Co. taps into history