Kent-Delord House Museum, Plattsburgh

About Kent-Delord House Museum

Kent-Delord House Museum is a historic house museum in Plattsburgh where visitors tour a 200-year-old mansion filled with period furnishings, artwork, and family documents spanning the nineteenth century. Guided tours lead guests through rooms where Judge Henry Delord entertained notable figures including Commodore Thomas Macdonough and General Alexander Macomb in 1814. The museum displays portraits, dinnerware, books, letters, and personal items belonging to three generations of the Delord family, along with heirlooms from the Webb family and original 1811 furnishings. Visitors explore the challenges of daily life during wartime and peacetime through authentic objects and stories. The house itself represents a rare architectural structure, expanded from a simple one-story frame building into a stately home. The property also features historic gardens. Tours are available multiple times daily, allowing families and history enthusiasts to connect with the past and understand the Delord family's hopes, struggles, and experiences at this location in Plattsburgh, New York.