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Good News You May Have Missed: Hancock House, Endowment Transferred
Fenimore Art Museum is pleased to share that in summer 2025, the ownership of the Hancock House in Ticonderoga, New York was transferred to the Lower Adirondack Regional Center for History, formerly known as the Ticonderoga Historical Society.
In 1924, an agreement was made between Ticonderoga-born industrialist Horace A. Moses and the New York State Historical Association in which Moses would give NYSHA the necessary funding to erect a building in Ticonderoga, New York that would be used as the association’s headquarters and would set up an endowment to maintain the building. The official dedication of the Hancock House was held in 1926 and from 1926-1939, NYSHA (currently known as Fenimore Art Museum) operated out of the Hancock House in Ticonderoga. In 1939, with the blessing of Horace A. Moses, NYSHA moved its headquarters to Cooperstown, New York, with the understanding that the endowment gifted would remain with the Hancock House.
