The five-storied Ward Mansion, only fifteen minutes from the New York State Thruway on the edge of the Adirondack Park, was home to New York's most celebrated prosecutor and district attorney, George Ward. He orchestrated the notorious Chester Gillette Murder Trial of 1906, basis of author Theodore Dreiser's novel, An American Tragedy and the 1951 film A Place in the Sun starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, and Raymond Burr as George Ward.

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