Mohonk Mountain House

Mohonk Mountain House, also known as Lake Mohonk Mountain House, a historic resort located on the Shawangunk Ridge in New Paltz in Ulster County, New York. Two major political conferences have taken place here. In 1986 the plant was declared a National Historic Landmark.

History

Mohonk Mountain House stands on the shore of the 800 -meter-long Lake Mohonk. The brothers Albert and Alfred Smiley, both Quakers, began in the 1870s with the construction of a small resort for the family and close friends. The 890 hectare property owned by the family since 1869. Due to high demand and popularity of the hotel facility was extended to 1910 again and now comprises 266 guest rooms. The surrounding countryside, the hotel was put together, the brothers have put smiley value on nature conservation, so that for example, there Lehrpfäde of Geology and Botany.

From 1883 to 1916 found at the initiative of Albert Smiley annual conferences to improve the living conditions of the North American Indians in the Mohonk Mountain House instead. At these meetings, representatives from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian leaders and delegates appropriate committees of the Senate and House of Representatives in part. The minutes of the 34 conferences are in the library of Haverford College for research purposes. Another regular conference was from 1895 to 1916 the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration, which was with the cause of the establishment of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. The documents of these meetings were donated by the family of Smiley the Swarthmore College.

On July 16, 1973 Mohonk Mountain House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and declared on 24 June 1986 a National Historic Landmark.