Main entry:

Montgomery, Gladys.

Title & Author:

An elegant wilderness : great camps and grand lodges of the Adirondacks, 1855-1935 / Gladys Montgomery ; foreword by Caroline M. Welsh.

Edition:

First edition

Publication:

New York : Acanthus Press, 2011.
©2011

Description:

264 pages : illustrations, map ; 32 cm.

Series:

The architecture of leisure.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Brandreth Park, Brandreth Lake, 1855-85 -- Putnam Camp, Keene Valley, 1876-1903 -- Pine Knot, Raquette Lake, 1877-90 -- Camp Inman, Raquette Lake, 1878-91 -- Bluff Point, Raquette Lake, 1878; 1905 -- Fairview, Raquette Lake, 1879 -- Camp Cedars, Forked Lake, 1880 -- Wild Air, Upper St. Regis Lake, 1882-1917 -- Stokes Camp, Upper St. Regis Lake, 1884-1917 -- North Point, Raquette Lake, 1885-1903 -- Nehasane Camp, Lake Lila, 1891 -- Santanoni, Newcomb Lake, 1892 -- Camp Uncas, Mohegan Lake, 1893-95 -- Sagamore, Sagamore Lake, 1896-1924 -- Camp Oteetiwi, Raquette Lake, 1897 -- Kamp Kill Kare, Lake Sumner, 1898-1917 -- Knollwood, Lower Saranac Lake, 1899 -- Bull Point, Upper Saranac Lake, 1902-03 -- Eagle Island, Upper Saranac Lake, 1903 -- Prospect Point, Upper Saranac Lake, 1903 -- Massapequa, Lower Saranac Lake, 1905 -- White Pine, Osgood Pond, 1907-13 -- Topridge, Upper St. Regis Lake, 1923 -- Wonundra, Upper Saranac Lake, 1930-33 -- Eagle Nest, Blue Mountain/Eagle Lakes, 1937-8.

Summary:

"The first book to place the rustic Adirondack architectural style in the context of the cultural, social, and environmental history, An Elegant Wilderness, showcases the intensely private retreats set into the pine forests on the shores of the region s shimmering lakes. Among the owners of the Great Camps there were the mining magnates Berthold Hochschild, Daniel Guggenheim, and Adolph Lewisohn, financiers J. Pierpont Morgan, Otto Kahn, and Isaac Newton Seligman, New York governor Levi Morton, President Benjamin Harrison, and the prominent philosopher William James and neuroscientist James Jackson Putnam. Women camp owners of note included Lucy Carnegie, Margaret Emerson (Vanderbilt), and Marjorie Merriweather Post." -- Publisher's description

ISBN:

9780926494473 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0926494473 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Vacation homes New York (State) Adirondack Mountains Region.
Mountain resorts New York (State) Adirondack Mountains Region.
Decoration and ornament, Rustic New York (State) Adirondack Mountains Region.
Decoration and ornament, Rustic.
Manners and customs.
Mountain resorts.
Vacation homes.
Adirondack Mountains Region (N.Y.) Social life and customs.
New York (State) Adirondack Mountains Region.

Added entries:

Great camps and grand lodges of the Adirondacks, 1855-1935

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283533
Call No.: BIB 221849
Status: Available