Adirondack Camps

by Gilborn, Craig A.; Malo, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780815606260
• ISBN10: 0815606265
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

A comprehensive social and architectural history of camps in the Adirondacks, from primitive bark shanties and cabins of trappers, loggers, and gruiades to the great camps where the rich played at roughing it in the company of servants and personal guides.

Author Biography

Craig Gilborn was director of the Adirondack Museum for twenty years.

Table of Contents

Color Plates	viii
Illustrations	ix
Map	xvi
Foreword: Beyond the Blue Line	xvii
Paul Malo
Preface	xxi
Acknowledgments	xxiii
Introduction: Camp---E Pluribus Unum	xxv
Color Plates	2	(9)
The Log Cabin as American Symbol	11	(12)
Adirondack Guides and Caretakers	23	(16)
Open Camps and Shanties	39	(22)
Log Cabin, Log House, Home into Hotel	61	(20)
Land and the Formation of Private Preserves	81	(18)
Clubs	99	(20)
Transitional Camps and Tents	119	(40)
Decorous Adirondack Camps	159	(38)
Other Features of the Decorous Camp	197	(20)
Trophy Camps and Their Early Designers	217	(32)
Old Forge and Saranac Lake Architects	249	(24)
Kamp Kill Kare: Prodigy Camp	273	(42)
Appendixes
A. ``Great'' Camps and Their Care	299	(10)
B. Projects of Durant, Coulter, and Distin	309	(6)
Notes	315	(12)
Bibliography	327	(24)
Index	351