A Tour Journal
by Gamble House Director Ted Bosley
September 16, 2009 — The tour’s last day…
Below: Great Camp Sagamore, the granddaddy of all Great Camps.
Below: Camp Uncas, one of Raquette Lake’s greatest camps, designed by William West Durant in 1893-95. One of the owners leads our group on an in-depth tour of this private camp property.
Below: St. Williams on Long Point, the Catholic church built in 1890 for the workers who created Durant’s Camp Pine Knot.
Below: Camp Pine Knot was purchased from William West Durant
by Collis P. Huntington in 1895; Huntington died here in August 1900. 
September 15, 2009 — Covewood Lodge, built by Henry Covey in 1923-24 at Big Moose Lake. Covey's dream was to create a rustic inn on the American plan. The lodge is constructed of spruce logs laid vertically.
Our visit to The Waldheim, a private resort camp at Big Moose Lake, included a stop at a cottage named “Dream,” built in 2000 in the style of the original structures from 1904. Materials came from the site. The entire camp remains in the Martin family, which built the original camp.
September 14, 2009 — Carolina is a large camp on Lake Placid built in 1913 for a textile magnate from South Carolina.
Its condition is amazingly pristine, and the interiors still include the original Stickley furnishings.
Below: Camp Carolina on Lake Placid.
Below: Antique boats at Camp Carolina.
Below: Stephen Englehart, Executive Director of Adirondack Architectural Heritage, introduces our group to Hemlock Ledge, designed by Julius Clarence Levi in 1905. Levi graduated the Ecole des Beaux Arts the year prior and this camp was his first commission.
September 13, 2009 — Sunday morning sunrise over the village of Lake Placid, New York. The Adirondacks portion of our study tour begins today with a visit to White Pine Camp in Paul Smiths, New York, and Prospect Point and Wenonah camps on Upper Saranac Lake. We have been fortunate with beautiful weather and we are even getting a preview of “fall colors” as some of the trees begin to change!
Below: Californians experiencing rain at the Heutte Alpine Rock garden (1926) at White Pine Camp.
Below: Spectacular Wenonah Lodge at Upper Saranac Lake.
September 12, 2009 — Pat Mahoney, vice-president of the Graycliff Conservancy, leads Gamble House supporters on an in-depth tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Graycliff,” the summer house for Mrs. Darwin Martin in Derby, NY, on the shore of Lake Erie.
September 11, 2009 — On the first day of our Gamble House tour to Arts and Crafts sites in New York State, we stop at the McKinley Monument in Niagara Square, where our Buffalo city guide Chuck LaChuisa explains the history of the Statler Hotel.
Below: the interior of Buffalo’s City Hall building.
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