The Barracks

Constructed in the fashionable Georgian style of the day, uncommon in the northern interior of New York in the mid-18th century, the soldiers’ barracks consisted of four dwelling units of four rooms, with each doorway opening into a hallway flanked by two rooms and originally containing a stairway to two rooms on the second story. Between twelve and eighteen soldiers occupied each room, while officers were allowed one or more rooms according to rank and non-commissioned officers, or subalterns, were quartered two to a room. Soldiers received one-half cord of wood per room each week for cooking and heating and one pound of candles for light. A room housing twelve men was furnished with six beds, twelve blankets, an iron pot, candlestick, bucket, and axe, and clean sheets, when available, were issued once a month during the 1760s.

Crown Point, New York · United States