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The Adirondacks style of architecture can be specialized into custom homes, rugged roofing, log cabins, boat houses, rustic furnishing, rustic kitchen, birch and cedar furniture, log and twig works. This style of architecture is found most prominently in and around the area of Adirondack Park.
Pine Tree Point on Upper St. Regis Lake. The Great Camps of the Adirondack Mountains [1] refers to the grandiose family compounds of cabins that were built in the latter half of the nineteenth century on lakes in the Adirondacks such as Spitfire Lake and Rainbow Lake. The camps were summer homes for the wealthy, where they could relax, host or ...
Camp Topridge is an Adirondack Park Great Camp bought in 1920 and substantially expanded and renovated in 1923 by Marjorie Merriweather Post, founder of General Foods and the daughter of C. W. Post. The "camp", near Keese Mill, in the U.S. state of New York, was considered by Post to be a "rustic retreat"; it consisted of 68 buildings ...
A saltbox house is a gable -roofed residential structure that is typically two stories in the front and one in the rear. It is a traditional New England style of home, originally timber framed, which takes its name from its resemblance to a wooden lidded box in which salt was once kept. The structure's unequal sides and long, low rear roofline ...
November 29, 2010. L. C. Simonds Adirondack Cabin, also known as "Breezy Bluff Cottage," is a historic home located near Clemons, Washington County, New York. It was built in 1910 and is a rustic Adirondack -style dwelling. The Simonds Adirondack Cabin is a log cabin constructed of spruce logs, and has a 11⁄2 -story main block with a kitchen ...
Santanoni Preserve was established by Robert C. Pruyn (1847–1934), a prominent Albany banker and businessman. Acquiring about 12,900 acres (52.2 km 2) in the Town of Newcomb, just south of the Adirondack High Peaks, Pruyn employed the distinguished architect Robert H. Robertson (1849–1914) to design a summer residential complex.
Great Camp Sagamore was constructed by William West Durant on Sagamore Lake between 1895 and 1897. [3] Prior to Sagamore, William Durant had constructed Camp Pine Knot (purchased by Collis P. Huntington and now the Huntington Memorial Outdoor Education Center [4] ) on nearby Raquette Lake and Camp Uncas (once owned by J. P. Morgan) on Lake Mohegan.
Bungalow. Though real estate agents may use the term to reference any small house, true bungalows are one- or one-and-a-half stories with two or three bedrooms. They span a total of 1,000 to 2,000 ...