LeRay Mansion

The LeRay Mansion is a National Register listed historic district at Fort Drum in northern New York. James LeRay de Chaumont, whose father had lent heavily to support the American Revolution, set aside 200 acres of his vast northern New York landholdings for the estate and built the first mansion around 1808. After a fire in the 1820s a mansion was rebuilt around 1826 to 1827, and historians disagree about how much of the present house is original. It passed down through the family of the later owner Jules Rene Payen until the state land bank foreclosed in 1936. The United States Army took the estate in 1941 when Pine Camp was expanded. Fort Drum later used it as lodging and an officers' club. Since 2018 it has served as an event space and museum open for daily tours.