Year Built: between  
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National Register:
 
Use Type: Boathouse
Lot Number: 5536
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Address:  {44.28442,-76.028603}  
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Description & Additional Information


Contributing boathouse, one of the most distinctive and unusual historic boathouses in Thousand Island Park. Two sections: older stone section abuts the shore, and newer frame section adjoins stone section on the river side. Older section is a flat-roofed, stone boathouse with wood dock on both sides, with two storage bays on east side and one on west. Stone section has coursed gray stone walls with bands of coursed red sandstone at cornice level. Second part, abutting south side of stone section, has one boat slip and door on east side, and one boat slip-sized opening behind dock on west side and one on south (river) side, plus two one-over-one windows on south side; board-and-batten siding and flat roof. A notable and unique feature is a set of stone steps cut into the river bank, leading to a below-grade door and windows; the polygonal opening is framed by a low stone balustrade topped with carved lions, with the below-grade side walls to either side of the steps faced in stone matching the walls of the boathouse. The stone part of the boathouse is depicted on the 1905 Sanborn map, with a frame section added on the water side between 1914 and 1924.

Location within Thousand Island Park


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