Sagamore Camp
Sagamore Sagamore Camp or Lodge was formerly the luxurious, rural residence of the heir to millions and businessman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. The camp is situated on a peninsula of the small Raquette Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, in the north of the U.S. state of New York. Today the plant is a National Historic Landmark, and the remaining buildings house a hotel and a conference center. Administratively Camp Sagamore is a member of Long Lake, Hamilton County, New York.
History
William West Durant, son of Thomas C. Durant, the Union Pacific Railroad vice president, designed the site in the remote area 1895-1897 as one of several " Adirondack Great Camps ". The camps were intended to convey the impression of original wealthy individuals living in the wild, but with all, progressive for its time comforts, such as electric lighting and central water supply. The newly formed New York Central Railroad Adirondack (now Adirondack Scenic Railroad ) between Utica (New York) and Lake Placid should open up the rustic, yet comfortable resort in the Adirondack Mountains.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt acquired in 1901, great-grandson and one of the heirs of Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of the most successful and wealthiest entrepreneurs of the United States, the terrain. Alfred Vanderbilt and, after his death in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, his widow Margaret Emerson, Camp built further. It was owned by the family until 1954, then took the Syracuse University building as a conference center. In 1975, the ownership was transferred to the Sagamore Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public research organization based in Indianapolis.
In 1976, the U.S. federal government's investment in the National Register of Historic Places, and raised them in 2000 to the National Historic Landmark. Today's hotel complex is open to everyone and gives the impression of rustic life in the midst of nature without having to dispense with the necessities of civilization.
Description
The 6 km ² comprehensive, mostly densely forested terrain was originally built with a total of 27 houses of different sizes, arranged in two separate complexes, a guest area on the lakeshore and in one of them remote, easy -equipped settlement for the employees. The two areas were developed along separate paths. The access to this guest wing led intentionally long and winding through the forest, to give the Guests should feel to move the midst of untouched wilderness.
The rustic, yet comfortable wooden houses of the guests tract grouped around a main lodge in the style of a Swiss chalet. Guests of the Vanderbilt family stayed at 14 " Cabins ", comfortable, scattered around the grounds wooden huts. For complex also included a boat house, tennis courts, a bowling alley and a croquet lawn. Initially, the property comprised nor a farm that was responsible for the self-supply with food and horse feed and horse stables, workshops, a greenhouse and a steam boat landing at the nearby Sagamore Lake. A separate drinking water on the lake and a hydroelectric power plant for energy supply made the system completely self-sufficient.
Not all buildings are still standing, the Cabins are today the hotel guests.