Trout River Border Crossing, New York

The Trout River crossing, at Highway 30, has a few buildings that are directly on the international boundary. One of them is a duty free store that has been shuttered for years. Before that is was a bar and restaurant called the Frontier Grill. The line runs diagonally through the building, and there is a door into Canada from an earlier part of the structure out back, which served as the home for the owners of the Frontier Grill. The main entrance facing the road is in the USA. Next to the store is a small apartment building, also divided diagonally by the line. Some of the border officers working across the street in the Port of Entry have lived here. On the back side of the building, the exterior door and landing for the apartment on the second floor is in Canada, though the landing at the bottom of the exterior stairs is in the US. Boundary monument number 738A is in the yard outside, and draws the line to a fine degree. It shows that the south edge of the small barn in back is also cut by the international border line.