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}} Trout River is a border crossing connecting Athelstan, Quebec to Constable, New York, most prominently featuring the Trout River Border Inspection Station. Historically, Trout River was the primary crossing of the Trout River, NY port of Entry. This distinction is due to the fact that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection defines a port of entry as 'any designated place at which a CBP officer is authorized to accept entries of merchandise to collect duties, and to enforce the various provisions of the customs and navigation laws'.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Code of Federal Regulations )〕 This means that the border stations of Fort Covington and Churubusco are facilities of the Trout River Port of Entry. The Trout River Border Inspection Station is one of seven existing border inspection stations built on this border between 1931 and 1934.〔(General Services Administration page on the Trout River Border Inspection Station ).〕 In 2014 it, along with others around the state and the country built during this period, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.〔 It thus became the northernmost listed property in the state. ==Significance== Border Stations are associated with four important events in United States history: the imposition of Prohibition between 1919 and 1933; enactment of the Elliott-Fernald Public Buildings Act in 1926 which was followed closely by the Great Depression; and the popularity of the automobile whose price was increasingly affordable thanks to Henry Ford's creation of the industrial assembly line. The stations were constructed as part of the government's program to improve its public buildings and to control casual smuggling of alcohol which most often took place in cars crossing the border. Their construction was also seen as a means of giving work to the many locally unemployed.〔 The Trout River border station is one of the best preserved in New York. While the border stations have all sustained systematic alterations, they have retained, in varying degrees, most of their original fabric. This station is on both exterior and interior a fine example of the building type, its character defining features well-maintained and intact.〔 The building was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, James A. Wetmore, during the tenure of Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon, and constructed from 1931 to 1932. At the time of its construction, Louis A. Simon was Superintendent of the Architectural Section. Border stations were constructed by the federal government in New England along the border with Canada during the 1930s and several common plans and elevations can be discerned among the remaining stations. Trout River shares with the others a residential scale, a Neo-colonial style, and an organization to accommodate functions of both customs and immigration services.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trout River Border Crossing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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