Century-old Ti — K of C groundbreaking

This is the latest in a series of posts about news reported a century ago in the Ticonderoga Sentinel.

Imagine how many spaghetti dinners have been served over100 years.

The Ticonderoga Knights of Columbus on June 14, 1921, broke ground on a new three-story council hall on what is now Montcalm Street, a project praised as making “a decided improvement in the appearance of the village’s main business thoroughfare.”

The third floor auditorium would have seating for up to 1,000 people, making it the largest venue for meetings and banquets in Ticonderoga.

John Lattrell, a council member, was supervisor of construction.

The building was estimated to cost about $40,000 — the equivalent of about $611,800 in 2021dollars.

“While the council has a substantial sum laid aside in a building fund, the major part of the money will be raised through the sale of stock,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on June 16, 1921. “The shares are issued with a par value of fifty dollars, selling at that value, and bear interest at the rate of six percent.”

In other June 16, 1921 Ticonderoga Sentinel news:

Essex County Judge Berthe A. Pyrke was appointed the state’s first Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets, after the consolidation of the two state departments.

Mrs. H.B. Moore, who died May 24, bequethed $2,000 to the Ticonderoga Baptist Church and $1,000 to Moses-Ludington Hospital.

Robert M. Thompson was visiting at Fort Ticonderoga with daughter Sarah Gibbs Pell and family.

Billy Tefft of Ticonderoga had a summer job on the steamship Finland of the Red Star line.

“The ship sails from New York Saturday for Antwerp, Belgium, touching at Plymouth, England and Cherbourg, France.

Click here to read the most recent previous post in the series.