Essex Village Historic District

The Crater Club is a seasonal residential enclave on the shore of Lake Champlain approximately one mile south of Essex, New York within the Adirondack Park region. The club was originally developed as a summer retreat by the naturalist and outdoor writer John Bird Burnham in the early 1900s. Currently the Crater Club consists of over 40 homes, a clubhouse, playing fields, four clay tennis courts, and a waterfront featuring a permanent pier and a screened building known as Burnham's Landing. This latter building is also the headquarters of the Split Rock Yacht Club, which maintains a small but active racing fleet of Cape Cod Knockabout sailboats and holds weekly sailboat races during the summer season open to these and other small one-design classes. Like the Scouting Movement, the Crater Club is an example of the American movement that embraced basic, "frontier" values in contrast to the rampant urbanization and industrialization of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Early members purchased lots from Burnham then built simple cottages that deliberately eschewed the luxuries and decorative excesses of Adirondack "Great Camps" such as those designed by William L. Coulter of Saranac Lake. Crater Club members swam, sailed small boats, and hiked for pleasure, believing in the salubrious effects of exposure to Nature on work-wearied urbanites and their children. Although many of the early residents were in business, others were academics and other professionals. A number of books have been produced by Crater Club residents during their sojourns there, and the club and its facilities still provide a warm community for families seeking a quiet and unassuming place to vacation and recharge in the summer months.

The Abraham Aiken House is a historic house and estate located at Willsboro in Essex County, New York.

Sheldon–Owens Farm is a national historic district located at Willsboro in Essex County, New York. The district contains seven contributing buildings, one contributing site, and seven contributing structures. They are set on a property assembled between 1784 and 1945. The oldest structure is a barn dated to the late 18th century. A number of the outbuildings date to the 1830s and include barns, a granary, brick smokehouse, and sugar house. The farmhouse dates to 1853 and was constructed on the foundation of the 18th-century house. Dated to the early 20th century are a storage shed, machine shed, well house, and additions and renovations to older buildings. The property has been adapted for use as a bird sanctuary. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

The Boquet River (pronounced BO-kwet) is a small river in upstate New York, United States. It was sometimes called the Bouquet River before a 1982 Board on Geographic Names decision. It is the steepest river in New York state, with a vertical drop of over 2,700 feet (823 m) over 40 miles (64 kilometers) from its source on Dix Mountain in the Adirondack Mountains to its mouth at Lake Champlain. The South Fork of the Boquet originates on South Dix Mountain in North Hudson. It runs northeast through Keene and enters Elizabethtown where it joined from the west by the North Fork of the Boquet near the intersection of US route 9 and NY route 73. Northeast of downtown Elizabethtown, it becomes the border of the Town of Lewis. It then flows east under the Adirondack Northway (Interstate 87) in Lewis, turns south to pass through the southwest corner of Essex into Westport before looping north back into Essex and then Willsboro where it empties into Lake Champlain at Noblewood Park. It traverses several waterfalls, including at Split Rock, a large flume falls in the center of Wadhams, and in downtown Willsboro. The river flows through the Boquet River Nature Preserve in downtown Willsboro. Tributaries of the Boquet include the North Branch, The Branch or Little Boquet, Spruce Mill Brook, and The Black River/Lincoln Pond. The watershed drains 280-square miles within the Adirondack Park in Essex county.

The Octagonal Schoolhouse built in 1827 is an historic stone octagon-shaped school building located in the hamlet of Boquet in the western part of the town of Essex, New York. On January 17, 1973, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Foothills Baptist Church is an historic Carpenter Gothic church located at 2172 New York Route 22 in the Boquet section of Essex, New York, in the United States. Built in 1855 as St. John's Episcopal Church, it became the Union Church at Boquet Chapel in 1880, the Church of the Nazarene in 1949 and Foothills Baptist Church in 2005. It has also been known as Boquet Chapel. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Church of the Nazarene in 1973. It was listed for its architecture: the church follows a published design by architect Richard Upjohn, and was described as being "remarkably untouched and yet well-maintained example of the simplest of Richard Upjohn's standard ecclesiastical designs."

The McNeil Homestead is a historic ferry-related property off Wings Point Road in Charlotte, Vermont, USA. The complex includes a 19th-century house, former tavern, and barn, all built by members of the McNeil family, the first operators of the Charlotte-Essex Ferry, whose eastern terminus is just south of the property. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Willsboro is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Willsboro in Essex County, New York, United States. The population of the CDP was 753 at the 2010 census, out of a total town population of 2,025.

Willsboro is a town in Essex County, New York, United States, and lies 30 miles (48 km) south of the city of Plattsburgh. As of the 2020 census, the town's population was 1,905. The town is named after early landowner William Gilliland.

The Willsboro School is a historic school building located at Willsboro in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1927 and is a three-story red brick building designed in the Neoclassical style in accordance with New York State's standardized school design guidelines of the early 20th century. The 1927 buildings is 130 feet (40 m) wide and 60 feet (18 m) deep and has approximately 24,000 square feet (2,200 m2) of space. An addition was completed in 1952. It is 90 feet (27 m) by 56 feet (17 m) and contains approximately 15,000 square feet (1,400 m2) of space. It closed in 2001. The former Willsboro School was rescued from the threat of demolition by developer Eli Schwartzberg who established its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010 to ensure the building's preservation. Schwartzberg then renovated and converted the building into the Champlain Valley Senior Community which opened in 2013.

Willsboro Congregational Church is a historic Congregational church on NY 22 in Willsboro, Essex County, New York. It was built in 1834 and is a simple rectangular limestone building with a gable roof. It features an engaged bell tower at the east gable end. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Essex is a town in Essex County, New York, United States overlooking Lake Champlain. The population was 621 at the 2020 census. The town is named after locations in England. The town is on the eastern edge of the county. It is 17 miles (27 km) south-southwest of Burlington, Vermont, which is on the opposite shore of Lake Champlain, 32 miles (51 km) south of Plattsburgh, 94 miles (151 km) south of Montreal, Quebec, and 135 miles (217 km) north of Albany. Essex is inside the Adirondack Park.