Old Stone Barracks

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 officer's barracks, which Ulysses S. Grant was stationed at for a time while serving as a young Lieutenant, was damaged by fire and torn down in 1964. The remaining building, the 200-foot (61 m) long, two story "Old Stone Barracks," which is entirely constructed of locally quarried limestone, has been mostly empty since 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 were offered to a Canadian real estate developer for $35,000 with the intention of building an apartment complex on the historic site. The Barracks property is appraised at over $775,000 and the sale has sparked public outcry for its preservation.