Pavilion Promenade
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Join Museum Staff for a guided tour of Ticonderoga's 19th- and 20th-century history. Step inside the Pavilion, currently closed to the general public, to learn about the men and women who saved Ticonderoga from destruction and made their home on the Shores of Lake Champlain. See how modern science combined with old-fashioned historical research has helped to shed light on the building's secrets.
Walk in the footsteps of Robert Todd Lincoln, President William Howard Taft, and hundreds of others who have visited the Pavilion over almost two centuries. Built by William Ferris Pell in the 1820s, when Fort Ticonderoga was preserved, it became a hotel following a family tragedy in 1839 and welcomed guests to the ruins of the old fort for 60 years. It was revived as a Pell family summer residence in 1909 as the fort was restored and remained so through 1987. This is a rare chance to step inside the oldest intact structure remaining on the garrison grounds, off limits for almost 30 years and only just now starting to give up the secrets of its construction and use.
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