Great Camps

The Great Camps are grandiose family compounds of cabins that were built in the latter half of the nineteenth century on remote lakes in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York state. Summer homes for the wealthy, they combined rough and rural foundational elements with often lavish and sophisticated details, drawing on the Arts and Crafts Movement and American Craftsman styles of the time. Indigenous logs and stone were combined and distinctive, often elaborate, "twigwork", to create a "Great Camp" style, initially popularized by William West Durant.