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An Adirondack guideboat. The Adirondack Guideboat is a rowboat that was developed in the 1840s for recreational activities in Adirondack Park. [1] It was designed to have a shallow draft, carry three people and their gear, and be light enough to be portaged by one man, the guide.
The boathouse at Topridge.. Upper St. Regis Lake is a 742-acre (3.00 km 2) lake, part of the St. Regis River in the Adirondacks in northern New York State.Along with Lower St. Regis Lake and Spitfire Lake, it became famous in the late 19th century as a summer playground of America's power elite, drawn to the area by its scenery and Paul Smith's Hotel.
Knollwood Club The original boathouse at Camp Topridge, built for Marjorie Post by Benjamin A. Muncil A new boathouse at Camp Topridge, built by Harlan Crow. Adirondack architecture refers to the rugged architectural style generally associated with the Great Camps within the Adirondack Mountains area in New York. The builders of these camps ...
The estate was designed by local builder Ben Muncil in collaboration with New York architect Theodore Blake. [3] As originally built, the property could only be reached by water, though a driveway was added in later years. Guests arrived by floatplane or Post's boat at a private dock, and thence via funicular to the main building at the top of ...
AARCH was formed in May, 1990, to promote public understanding, appreciation and stewardship of the Adirondacks' architectural heritage. The group was initially headed by Dr. Howard Kirschenbaum, who formed it in an effort to save historic Camp Santanoni, an Adirondack Great Camp, from being destroyed by the state when the land it was on was added to the New York Forest Preserve.
The Loon Lake Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Loon Lake Mountain at Loon Lake in Franklin County, New York. The station includes a 35-foot-tall (10.7 m), steel-frame lookout tower erected in 1917 that has been abandoned since 1971.
The Fulton Chain of Lakes is a string of eight lakes located in the Adirondack Park in upstate New York, United States. The chain is the dammed-up Moose River, and the dam which creates the chain holds back nearly 6.8 billion US gallons (26,000,000 m 3) of water. [1] The lakes are located in Herkimer and Hamilton Counties.
Adirondack, an Amtrak passenger rail route connecting New York City and Montreal; Adirondack guideboat, a rowed skiff, built to be carried between bodies of water, originally designed for hunting; USS Adirondack, a gunboat during the American Civil War that sank off the Bahamas