Camp Pine Knot
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Camp Pine Knot |
| nrhp_type | nhl |
| locmapin | New York Adirondack Park#New York#USA |
| image | Camp Pine Knot, Metcalf Hall.jpg |
| caption | The "W" is for William West Durant |
| location | Raquette Lake, NY |
| coordinates | |
| built | 1877 |
| architect | William West Durant |
| architecture | Adirondack Great Camp |
| designated_nrhp_type | August 18, 2004 |
| added | November 7, 1986 |
| mpsub | Great Camps of the Adirondacks TR |
| refnum | 86002934 |
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| name = Camp Pine Knot | nrhp_type = nhl | locmapin = New York Adirondack Park#New York#USA | image = Camp Pine Knot, Metcalf Hall.jpg | caption = The "W" is for William West Durant | location = Raquette Lake, NY | nearest_city = | coordinates = | area = | built = 1877 | architect = William West Durant | architecture = Adirondack Great Camp | designated_nrhp_type = August 18, 2004 | added = November 7, 1986 | visitation_num = | visitation_year = | mpsub = Great Camps of the Adirondacks TR | refnum = 86002934
Camp Pine Knot, also known as Huntington Memorial Camp, is a Great Camp on Raquette Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. Begun in 1877 by William West Durant, it was the first of the Adirondack "Great Camp", and epitomizes the architectural style. Elements include log and native stonework construction, decorative rustic items of branches and twigs, and layout as a compound of separated structures. It is located on the southwest tip of Long Point, a two-mile long point extending into Raquette Lake, in the Town of Long Lake in Hamilton County, New York.
The camp consists of some two dozen buildings, including a seven-room "Swiss Cottage," four "Log Cottages" of one to three rooms, two frame cottages of three and five rooms, a "Glass Dining Room," and a five-stall horse barn and wagon shed. Covered walkways connect many of the buildings. There was also the "Barque," a 20 by 60 foot four-room bark cabin built on a log raft, used to escape from the dreaded black fly in the spring; it was fully equipped, with a kitchen, bath, and running water.
History
Pine Knot was started by Durant's father, railroad developer Thomas C. Durant, as a showplace to draw investors to Durant's holdings, but it was William West Durant who would develop it into the remarkable model for Adirondack Great Camps to follow. In 1895, William West Durant sold the camp to wealthy industrialist Collis P. Huntington, who died there in 1900.
The camp went unused from the start of the 20th century until 1947, when it was sold to the State University of New York at Cortland for 1 dollar, for use as their Outdoor Education center. Due to the soundness of its construction, despite its long disuse, the buildings required little repair. The Barque is being rebuilt.
The camp was included in a multiple property submission for listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, was in fact listed in 1986, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2004.
File:William West Durant at Camp Pine Knot.jpg|William West Durant at Camp Pine Knot, 1890. Image by Seneca Ray Stoddard File:Camp Pine Knot, Raquette Lake, NY.JPG|Durant Cabin, 2009 File:Chalet, Camp Pine Knot, Raquette Lake, NY.JPG|The Chalet, 2009
References
Sources
- Gilborn, Craig. Durant: Fortunes and Woodland Camps of a Family in the Adirondacks. Utica, NY: North Country Books, 1981.
- Kaiser, Harvey. Great Camps of the Adirondacks. Boston: David R. Godine, 1982.
References
- (2007-09-11). "Camp Pine Knot". National Park Service.
- {{NRISref. 2007a
- Gobrecht, Larry E.. (July 1986). ["National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Great Camps of the Adirondacks Thematic Resources"]({{NRHP url). National Park Service.
- William E. Krattinger. (October 2002). ["National Historic Landmark Nomination: Camp Pine Knot / Huntington Memorial Camp"]({{NHLS url). National Park Service.
- Smith, Raymond W.. (c. 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Camp Pine Knot".
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