Fort Stanwix National Park is located in Rome, New York, about ten miles northwest of Utica. It was the lowest water/land route west from the Atlantic to the Great Lakes. As an ancient native american portage route of about a mile from the source waters of the Mohawk River to Wood Creek, it was later to become a strategic trading route for Britain. Britain built Fort Stanwix to defend the trading route from the French in 1758. It was later used by American patriot forces against the British during the revolution. The wood fort was reconstructed on the original site in 1968 on 16 acres of land in downtown Rome. I worked with the National Park Service and EYP Architects as project manager an co-designer to develope a visitors center on the site. It was opened to the public July 2005. You can see some photos on my image gallery.